SEX OFFENDER REMANDED AFTER BOARDING FERRY WITHOUT NOTIFYING POLICE
A REGISTERED sex offender has been remanded in custody after attempting to board the Pembroke Dock to Rosslare ferry without informing police of his travel plans.Jamie Davies, aged forty-six, was seen boarding the ferry as a foot passenger on Monday afternoon (November 17).
Davies was placed on the sex offenders’ register in June this year after being convicted of sexual offences and was required to notify police of any intended travel.
“The Pembroke Dock ferry port staff were conducting customs checks on Monday afternoon and saw that Jamie Davies was travelling as a foot passenger,” Crown Prosecutor Dennis Davies told District Judge Mark Layton at Haverfordwest magistrates court this week.
Police officers attended and arrested Davies at the port.
He later refused to comment during interview.
Davies, of Greenhall Park, Johnston, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with the sexual notification requirement when he appeared before the court in custody.
He was represented by solicitor Tom Lloyd.
“He’d booked a return ticket and was fully intending to come back,” Mr Lloyd told the court.
“This was a genuine oversight and wasn’t an attempt to escape justice.” Judge Layton declined jurisdiction due to the seriousness of the breach.
Davies will now be sentenced at Swansea Crown Court on December 4.
He was remanded in custody.
