Homeless alcoholic Paul Iwan Evans, 36, who has been remanded in custody pending sentence, said it would keep him off the beer
A drunk with 80 previous convictions told magistrates he was “over the moon” to be remanded in custody after he was caught pestering a woman on a bus.
Paul Iwan Evans, said that he had been asking for a detoxification programme for ages and the remand would keep him off the beer until he appears again on Tuesday.
Evans, 36, of no fixed abode, admitted two breaches of his criminal behaviour order by being drunk in public and annoying the woman on the bus.
He told Flintshire Magistrates’ Court he was homeless and an alcoholic and asked magistrates: “Where am I supposed to drink?”
When he next appears in court he will be sentenced.
The court heard that in November of last year during a bus journey from Flint to Holywell he pestered a woman on a bus.
Before boarding the vehicle he urinated in the bus shelter and then shadow boxed with her son which upset him.
It happened again on the bus and the boy moved away with her ex-partner.
But Evans turned his attention to the woman, commenting on her blue eyes and asking if she had a boyfriend.
He tried to hold her hand and at one stage was almost on top of her but she was able to barge past him and get off the bus the court heard.
Prosecutor Nicola Wyn-Williams said the woman contacted the police and officers found her in a state of distress and crying.
On Thursday (February 16) he was arrested and was drunk in the street, an act he was prohibited from doing by the criminal behaviour order, which was imposed on him in September 2015.
Nine of his 80 offences were for breaching the order.
He previously had an ASBO and had breached that as well.
Phillip Lloyd Jones, defending, said his client was attending appointments with the probation service.
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