Newport ‘nuisance’ jailed for breaching city centre ban

Mark Vance Samuels, 44, was handed a prison sentence following his defiance of a criminal behaviour order (CBO).

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The three-year order was made after Newport Magistrates’ Court heard he had been a “nuisance” to people working in and visiting the city centre.

Samuels, formerly of Partridge Way, Duffryn, Newport, was jailed for 12 weeks after Cwmbran magistrates were told he had a “flagrant disregard for court orders”.

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He pleaded guilty to breaching the CBO after he was found on the city’s Commercial Street “without reasonable excuse” on November 18.

The defendant was also ordered to pay a £128 surcharge following his release from custody.

The CBO, which was imposed at Newport Magistrates’ Court on August 25, 2020, bars Samuels from:

• Engaging or threatening to engage in any conduct capable of causing nuisance or annoyance, alarm, harassment or distress by either words or actions to anyone in the city of Newport

• Entering Commercial Street, Commercial Road, Wyndham Street, High Street, Friars Walk and Griffin Street

• Urinating or defecating in any public open space including any shop doorway

• Begging from any person in the city of Newport

If Samuels breaches any of his order, he can be arrested.