Raphael Gardner claimed he was bathing himself - and his dog - when his electronic curfew tag activated
A MAN'S electronic curfew tag stopped working when he jumped in the bath — to bathe himself and his dog — a court has heard.
Raphael Gardner appeared in Swansea Magistrates' Court accused of breaching his 9pm to 6am curfew when he was absent from his Cimla home for 15 minutes.
Steve Burnell, for Gardener, said his client was adamant he had not left the house but had taken a bath on the night in question — and then bathed his greyhound — and when he got downstairs he found the curfew tag box had been activated.
The court heard that when police officers called at his house later that night to check on his whereabouts he was at the property.
Magistrates took the unusual step of reading the tagging equipment's information leaflet to Gardner, which said the device had been calibrated to work in the bath — and they found the breach proved.
The court heard 52-year-old Gardner, of Glannant Court, had also breached his bail in August - on that occasion he was found by police in a garden shed.
Gardner was further admitted to bail - which includes the curfew and a prohibition on going to Dan-y-Coed in Tonmawr - ahead of a hearing next month.
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