A MAN from Holyhead has been ordered to pay in excess of £400 after he was found guilty of assaulting a policeman in Gwynedd last year.

John Hughes, 41, of Treseifion, was accused of assaulting Nicholas Thomas-Young, a police constable, at Caernarfon Police Station, by beating him on July 29, 2021.

He was found guilty at Caernarfon Magistrates’ Court on April 20.

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Mr Hughes was fined £200, and ordered to pay compensation of £100, costs to the Crown Prosecution Service of £100, and a £34 victim surcharge.

This totalled £434, which he is to pay in full by May 18.