A man who terrorised 30 passengers when he and others tried to invade a bus inCaernarfon had his sentence slashed yesterday.
Llion Wyn Jones, 24, was jailed for 22 months at Mold Crown Court in September after he admitted affray.
His “drunken rampage” kicked off at the Eagles pub in Caernarfon town centre on December 7 last year, London’s Appeal Court heard yesterday.
A bus driver was negotiating the one-way system when he “tooted his horn” at a stationary car outside the pub.
The car’s driver, Jones and another man reacted by leaping out and storming up to the bus driver’s window.
One of them unsuccessfully tried to force open the window and Jones spat at the windscreen, said Lord Justice Lloyd Jones.
Seconds later, Jones and two other men managed to trigger the emergency switch to open the bus’s doors.
But the vigilant driver spotted what they were up to and managed to over-ride the switch before finally reversing out of trouble.
Jones, of Maes Heulog, Maesincla, Caernarfon, challenged his sentence with claims that it was far too harsh.
Lord Justice Lloyd Jones, sitting with Mr Justice Edis and Judge John Wait, said he had taken part in a “drunken rampage in which these three men acted as a group”.
“It must have been very distressing and frightening for the 30 passengers,” the judge added.
“But for the driver pressing the over-ride switch, the incident could have escalated further to become even more serious.”
However, the judge went on to cut Jones’s sentence to 16 months after noting that “no actual violence was used”.
“Having regard to all the circumstances, we consider that the sentence was too severe,” he said, allowing the appeal.
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