A MAN from Bangor has been sentenced to prison after he was found guilty of four offences, including criminal damage to property and assault.

Michael Thomas, 36, of Caernarfon Road, was accused of the following:

  • Using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress on Caernarfon Road on June 10.
  • Causing £58.03 of criminal damage to a custody cell at Caernarfon Police Station, which required it to be professionally cleaned, on June 11.
  • Assaulting PC Dumbarton by beating him at Caernarfon custody on July 5.
  • Assaulting PC Leon-Portillo by beating him at Caernarfon custody on July 5.

These offences were also committed during the operational period of a suspended sentence imposed on Thomas.

Thomas pleaded guilty to the first two offences on July 28, but not guilty to both counts of assault.

He was found guilty of the two assaults at Llandudno Magistrates’ Court on August 30.

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Thomas was sentenced to 66 weeks’ imprisonment.

He is also to pay £208.03 in compensation and £350 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service, making a total payment of £558.03.

A further three offences, of causing criminal damage to a police vehicle, and of assaulting and using threatening behaviour towards PC Thomas, were withdrawn.