A MAN from Colwyn Bay has received a prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to sending an offensive message and exhibiting threatening behaviour.
James McLoughlin, 28, of Churchill Close, Old Colwyn, was accused of the following on August 3:
• Sending an electronic message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.
• Using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, with the intent to cause fear of or provoke unlawful violence.
He pleaded guilty to both offences at Llandudno Magistrates’ Court on August 4.
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McLoughlin had also committed these offences during the operational period of a suspended sentence he had received.
The court handed him a 29-week prison sentence.
A third offence, of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress on August 3, was withdrawn.
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