A homeless man ended up in court - for sitting outside Sainsbury’s in Wrexham.
Neil Young had been bailed by North Wales Police on condition he does not enter The Plas Coch Retail Park, does not enter Sainsbury’s and does not enter within the immediate perimeter of the supermarket.
But he was arrested by the police on New Year’s Eve after he was found sitting outside Sainbury’s with his bag.
Young, 31, who gave a c/o address at Pentre Gwyn, Wrexham , but who had been living in a tent near Wrexham Tennis Centre, admitted breaching his bail.
His solicitor Euros Jones told a special New Year’s Day sitting of North East Wales Magistrates’ Court at Mold today that his client was simply waiting for a Good Samaritan.
He told how the defendant had been put up in a Premier Inn on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day by a couple as a gesture of good will.
They had promised him that they would do the same on New Year’s Eve and the defendant had simply been outside Sainsbury’s waiting for them.
He was simply sitting there and there had been no aggression or begging but he accepted he was in breach of his bail, explained Mr Jones.
Mr Jones said: “He has lost the opportunity of having another night at the Premier Inn and his breakfast and he knows that he cannot go park to the retail park for any reason whatsoever.”
Prosecutor Mairead Neeson confirmed the only allegation against him was that he was sitting outside Sainbury’s in breach of his bail.
Magistrates agreed to release Young from custody and he was bailed under January 14 to answer charges of theft, public order, resisting police and possessing crack cocaine.
