A CWMBRAN man has been sent to jail for 12 weeks after he failed to notify the probation service that he had moved house.

Appearing before Caerphilly Magistrates Court, 27- year-old Mark O’Dwyer, of Maindee Wood, Pontnewydd, admitted that by failing to notify probation, he had breached a community order.

He denied a separate charge of failing to attend appointments on June 25 and July 2, stating that he had submitted a medical note.

O’Dwyer was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work in April this year, after being convicted of stealing an £80 drill and carrying out fraudulent building work worth £600, plus failure to surrender.

The court heard that he has only completed 18.5 hours since that time.

Magistrates described O’Dwyer’s behaviour as a “willful and persistent failure to comply with the order” and sentenced him to eight weeks’ imprisonment for the original fraud charge, three weeks for theft and one week for failing to surrender, amounting to 12 weeks to be served consecutively.