A TEENAGER from Mold was spared being sent into custody after breaching his suspended sentence for the second time. 

The Leader reported the sentencing of Charlie Mullen, of Ivy Crescent, Mold in January of this year. 

He was charged with affray and received a six month custodial sentence, suspended for 18 months - and must undertake 200 hours of unpaid work, as well as paying £100 in compensation and £100 costs.

He was sentenced alongside six other young men after ambushing and attacking a youth and his dad in the Hawarden area in April 2023. 

The 19-year-old appeared at Mold Crown Court on Wednesday (December 4) having breached his suspended sentence for the second time after failing to attend unpaid work on November 14 "without reasonable excuse".

Myles Wilson, defending, said Mullen knows "he’s on extremely thin ice” following his second breach, but argued that he had been attending the unpaid work during the last few weeks and asked the judge to give him “one final chance”.

Wilson added that Mullen wanted to “get his hours out of the way” due to his desire to work and become a roofer, but that all his time is currently taken up with unpaid work and other community sessions, which he was sentenced to following a motoring offence. 

Judge Rhys Rowlands debated a custodial sentence, stating that the public’s confidence in the system would wain if people kept breaching orders and “getting away with it”.

However, he placed Mullen on a curfew over the Christmas period and gave him one final warning. 

MOST READ: 

Judge Rowlands said: “Be very, very careful after getting another chance. Ordinarily people don’t get a second chance.

“Please do not come back.”

He also warned Mullen that any further breach would lead to him being placed in a young offenders institute and that a custodial sentence would put him at a disadvantage when trying to secure work in the future.

Mullen was sentenced to a curfew between 8pm and 7am, lasting 28 days, which will be monitored by an electronic tag.

He was also ordered to complete the remaining 84 hours of unpaid work by July.