06-06-2025
COURT: Connah's Quay man breached domestic violence order
Owain Hughes-Lewis, of Garratt Close in Connah's Quay, appeared at Mold Magistrates Court on Thursday.
The 27-year-old admitted that on Wednesday (June 4) he breached a domestic violence protection order (DVPO) by attending an address in Northop Hall.
Sue Rees, prosecuting on behalf of North Wales Police, told the court that the order, which was granted by Llandudno Magistrates Court on May 21, remains in place until a minute to midnight on June 17.
When Hughes-Lewis was released from custody on Wednesday, police carried out a welfare check on the associated person protected by the DVPO.
At her property, they found the defendant hiding under a mattress in a bedroom.
Gary Harvey, defending, told the court: "It's quite straight forward.
"He is released from prison, this lady picks him up outside prison and he doesn't know where he's going to go.
"His thoughts were to go immediately to the local authority and seek accommodation, but it didn't work out that way because of the time he was released - so he goes to this lady's house.
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"There's then the welfare check and he's at the address which unfortunately means he is in breach of the order.
"The order itself was put in place at Llandudno in his absence and he wasn't aware of it at the time, but he does accept the breach and he knows he shouldn't have been there."
The Magistrates handed down a £50 fine and warned the defendant that while he'd been "quite lucky" in not receiving a custodial sentence for the breach, a second one may well have a different outcome.
