A MAN from Bangor has been spared jail despite breaching the terms of his sex offenders register notification requirements.

Tomos Evans, 23, of Ffordd Cynan, was handed a two-year community order at Caernarfon Crown Court today (November 7).

He had previously admitted a charge of failing to comply with his notification requirements.

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Prosecuting, Emmalyne Downing told the court that, on November 2, 2021, Evans sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, after having sexual intercourse with a child.

Evans was also ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years, which made him subject to these notification requirements.

Of these requirements, one is to re-confirm his address with police annually.

The defendant gave police a new address on August 24, 2022, so was due to confirm his details once again by August 24, 2023 at the latest.

But on August 27 of this year, an officer responsible for Evans noticed he was three days overdue, so she phoned him to inform him of the breach.

Evans accepted responsibility when interviewed on September 18, saying he had become “mixed up” about the deadline date.

He has since put a reminder in his mobile phone to try to prevent this from re-occurring, Ms Downing said.

His previous breaches of the order, for failing to register a new bank account with police and for not attending a programme requirement, both in 2022, each resulted in fines.

Defending Evans, who had four previous convictions for as many offences, Thomas McLoughlin asked for a sentence “other than immediate custody” for his client.

Mr McLoughlin said Evans “accepts what he’s done”, and deemed him to have a realistic prospect of rehabilitation.

He said: “There is evidence where Mr Evans is trying his best to comply with the order to the best of his ability.

“On the same day he was made aware of the breach, he went voluntarily to a police station and updated his address – the same address.

“This isn’t a case of him seeking to hide his address. Whenever he has changed addresses, he has told police voluntarily, as he ought to.”

Evans, who was supported by his parents in court, suffers “substantially” with his health, Mr McLoughlin added, including from Type 1 diabetes.

Sentencing, Recorder Wyn Lloyd-Jones told Evans that his community order “hopefully will enable you to get some help with your life”.

He ordered Evans to complete a 35-session programme requirement, and 45 days’ rehabilitation activity.

Evans will also pay a £114 statutory surcharge.

Recorder Lloyd-Jones told Evans: “You were obviously very lucky to get that (suspended) sentence.

“It’s difficult to overstress how much difficulty your family has been going through in recent times. I sympathise greatly with them.

“It's not necessary to send you to prison in any way, shape or form today… this is not a case of deliberately breaching the orders.

“I’m really hoping that this is the last time you ever appear in court.”