Published date: 15 February 2016 |
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A MAN arrested following a rooftop stand-off with police at a Wrexham gym has been jailed for a series of offences.
Shaun Lee Nicholas, 22, of Field View, Wrexham, was involved in a two-and-a-half hour siege on the roof of the Powerzone Gym on Rivulet Road, Wrexham, where police had gone to arrest him.
He came down from the roof on Friday after speaking to police and his solicitor, Paul Abraham.
On Saturday morning he appeared from custody at a special weekend sitting of Flintshire Magistrates Court at Mold, admitted a total of 11 offences and was jailed for six months and banned from driving for three years
He did not face any charges arising from the circumstances of his arrest.
Magistrates said he had shown “a total disregard for the law of the land”.
The court heard Nicholas had been convicted in his absence at Telford Magistrates Court in November of assaulting prison officers and had been sentenced to six months in prison. Police had been searching for him.
He admitted driving while disqualified, no insurance and failing to stop after an incident on December 29 in Cefn Road, Wrexham, when he crashed into a tractor, towing a tanker.
The tractor was turning right when the defendant overtook him, struck the tractor’s off side wheel and then crashed into a wall.
Nicholas and a female passenger fled from the scene, said prosecutor Nicola Wyn-Williams.
He admitted driving while disqualified, having no insurance and failing to stop on January 29 when he made off from police in Wrexham Road, Rhostyllen.
Nicholas admitted driving while disqualified and with no insurance on February 10 in Holt Road where he had been identified as the driver of a car which pulled up on to a garage forecourt.
He admitted driving while disqualified, having no insurance and failing to stop in Rivulet Road, Wrexham, on February 11.
Police knew he was wanted and followed him but he failed to stop for officers and they lost sight of him as he disappeared down a country lane at speed.
Nicholas also admitted a criminal damage charge dating back to September 10 when he and a female booked into The Premier Inn at Wrexham but it was found that £350 worth of damage had been caused to the room.
Paul Abraham, defending, said his client knew he was going to jail.
Mr Abraham said it would be a waste of breath and an insult to the intelligence of the bench to suggest anything other than prison.
The most significant point in his favour was that he had admitted the offences. Following his conviction at Telford, he had been wanted by police and there had been a series of incidents where he fled from the police officers, said Mr Abraham.
He had no one to blame but himself for the position he now found himself in.
Further charges of dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, no insurance and failing to provide a specimen, which he denied, were sent to the crown court.
Those charges, dating back to September 25, arise from allegations that a car being pursued by the police in Wrexham crashed through the gates of a level-crossing as lights were flashing, warning that a train was arriving.
He will appear at Mold Crown Court next month.
see-http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/158591/wrexham-rooftop-siege-man-given-six-month-jail-sentence.aspx
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