Decision to give John Livesey reprieve so he can attend bash condemned by politicians as 'extraordinary'
A sex pest caught groping a woman at a seaside nightspot has had his curfew relaxed by a court so he can go to his own 50th birthday party.
The decision by magistrates to grant the late night reprieve to John Livesey was met with dismay by local politicians, who described the decision as “extraordinary”.
They decided to let him off his 7pm curfew so he could stay after his girlfriend applied for permission for him to go to the party at the Yacht pub in Pensarn, Abergele, on Saturday night.
He will be allowed to stay out until 2am.
Only last month Livesey was given a suspended jail term of 90 days and put on a twelve-week overnight curfew after touching a young woman on a night out in Rhyl.
The angry and shocked victim, 27, accused him of “putting your hand up my f***ing skirt”. She approached bouncers and the police were called.
But on being sentenced, unemployed Livesey, of Ffordd y Morfa, Abergele , showed no remorse, being told by district judge Gwyn Jones that “it’s clear you don’t accept you have done anything wrong.”
“As it stands he can’t go to his own party,” said defence solicitor Nia Dawson to magistrates at Llandudno on Tuesday.
“His girlfriend has asked us to make the application.”
Clwyd West Assembly Member Darren Millar said: “This man is a convicted groper so many people will be surprised by this decision.
“The courts imposed the curfew as a punishment so relaxing it in this way for a late-night party just a few weeks after seems extraordinary.”
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