Holyhead man jailed for pub attack

Friday, 8 November 2024 17:21

By MônFM Newsroom

North Wales Police

A Holyhead man who carried out an unprovoked attack on a woman has been jailed for six months.

John Welsh admitted affray and causing actual bodily harm at the George Hotel on Market Street last month.

The 61 year-old has also been banned from entering every pub across North West Wales for the next two years.

Llandudno magistrates heard Welsh had already been involved in an altercation in another man during the early hours of Monday 28th October.

He threw a drink over the woman, who was sat next to the man.

She tried to push him away and Welsh responded by throwing a bar stool and lunging towards her, pulling her hair and hitting her head on a chair.

He then threw a glass across the bar area before leaving the pub. Owen was arrested shortly afterwards.

PS Chris Burrow of the Ynys Mon Policing Team said: "This was a shocking, cowardly and unprovoked attack on the victim, who didn’t even know Welsh, which also left other people in the pub shocked and scared."

“Violence against women and girls will simply not be tolerated, and we will continue to work tirelessly to bring perpetrators to justice.”

Owen's ban includes every licenced premises across the Anglesey, Gwynedd and Conwy county areas.

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