Johnathan Michael Jones, who poses a ‘important danger to members of the general public’, went into the pub rest room cubicle and compelled his sufferer into sexual acts
A younger man with the “psychological age of a 12 or 13 12 months previous” was raped in a Swansea pub rest room, a court docket heard. Johnathan Michael Jones, aged 41, ran into his sufferer close to the Liberty Stadium within the metropolis on the night of July 1 this 12 months.
He had met him earlier than and started speaking to him close to a neighborhood bus cease. He put his arms round his sufferer and proceeded to kiss him, earlier than placing his hand on his backside and sexually assaulting him.
The sufferer instructed Jones to cease however a court docket heard he didn’t, and as an alternative requested if he may contact the opposite man’s penis. Don’t miss a court docket report by signing up to our crime publication right here.
Each males later went right into a pub after which right into a cubicle positioned throughout the pub rest room. It was right here, based on prosecution barrister Jon Tarrant, that Jones sexually assaulted him.
Jones then instructed his sufferer to show round earlier than raping him. When the sufferer was capable of push him away, Jones proceeded to supply him £100 if he was allowed to proceed.
CCTV later obtained from the realm and the pub itself confirmed the 2 males coming into the pub after which the pub rest room, earlier than they left individually round 11 minutes later.
Jones, of Clyne Courtroom in Sketty, was arrested on the night of the offences and instructed police that any sexual exercise that occurred between the 2 males was consensual.
Nonetheless, he later pleaded responsible to prices of sexual assault, assault by penetration, oral rape and anal rape, and appeared for sentencing by way of video hyperlink at Swansea Crown Courtroom on Wednesday, October 8.
Mr Tarrant instructed the court docket the sufferer within the case was a younger man who “had a psychological age of round 12 or 13” as a consequence of developmental points. He added that Jones was conscious of this as a result of they’d met earlier than.
In a private affect assertion learn to the court docket the sufferer stated: “I’m attempting to neglect about this ordeal. I can not sleep with out remedy. It has affected each facet of my every day life.”
The court docket was additionally instructed of a earlier conviction towards Jones regarding an incident in Peterborough in 2005 when he put his fingers down the trousers of a 12-year-old boy and touched his backside in a carpark.
Defence barrister Craig Jones stated the assembly between his consumer and the sufferer close to the bus cease in Swansea “was an opportunity assembly, it was not deliberate”, which means his consumer didn’t kind a premeditated plan to commit the offences. The barrister stated, nevertheless, that “this complainant, it’s accepted, was notably weak”.
Choose Huw Rees addressed Jones and stated his offending “types a sample”. He stated: “You dedicated these offences whereas inebriated or medicine. There was a selected focusing on of a weak particular person.
“I come to the conclusion that these offences warrant an prolonged sentence as a result of there’s a important danger to members of the general public of significant hurt.”
Choose Rees handed Jones an prolonged determinate sentence of 13 years, made up of 9 years in jail and an prolonged licence interval of 4 years. Jones was additionally made the topic of an indefinite restraining order, prohibiting him from making any direct or oblique contact with the sufferer.
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