A Romanian man who took a teenage girl prisoner has been told he’ll likely be deported at the end of his sentence.
Ciprian Romascu, grabbed a 17-year-old girl on her driveway in January this year.
She had just got back from work when she saw a man in a white hooded top go past on a bike.
She was grabbed tightly round the waist and felt a hand on her stomach.
He let her go when she shouted and rode off. The girl’s mother called the police and Romascu, who had been in the UK since 2016 but had only recently moved to Connah’s Quay , was arrested shortly afterwards.
He claimed through an interpreter he was disoriented after drinking spirits and just wanted to attract the girl’s attention so he could get directions from her.
His defence counsel Matthew Dunford suggested had Romascu spoken English he would not have been in court.
At the end of his trial it emerged that Romescu had been found guilty of assaulting two 14 year-old girls after confronting the 17 year-old.
He had spat at one and punched another in the face.
At Mold Crown Court, where earlier Romascu had been found guilty at trial, Judge Niclas Parry sentenced him to 14 months jail for false imprisonment and said that one of the four month terms imposed on his earlier would run consecutively.
The other was to run concurrently and he warned Romascu he faced deportation after serving his time, although he made no specific order to that effect.
Romascu, 37 of Newby Walk, Connah’s Quay, was warned it was likely he would be deported back to Romania after serving the 18 month sentence.
