A WOMAN from Rhyl has been spared jail after she did not adhere to the terms of the suspended sentence issued to her.

Jane Darby, 40, of Stanmore Street, was sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment, suspended for a year-and-a-half, at Caernarfon Crown Court on May 26, 2022.

This followed her pushing a man who was urinating on Rhyl promenade, exposing his genitals in front of her teenage daughter in doing so.

He consequently fractured his skull, and suffered a bleed on the brain and a broken nose.

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Darby was also ordered to pay him £250 in compensation, and abide by six months' alcohol treatment, and an electronically-monitored curfew for three months.

But she breached her suspended sentence when she failed to attend a pre-arranged office appointment on July 3, and was brought back before Caernarfon Crown Court today (August 10).

Karl Scholz, prosecuting, said that, since her absence that day, she has attended three appointments, and has another tomorrow “which I have no doubt she will be attending, as well”.

Mr Scholz invited the court to mark her breach by way of a financial penalty, rather than activating her suspended sentence.

Darby, unrepresented in court, admitted the breach but said she was “ill at the time”.

She said that she is not working and is in receipt of benefits, and that this is her only current court order.

“Things are going quite well with probation; they’re helping me a lot with different aspects of my life,” she said.

“I’m just keeping my head above water at the moment, but things are OK, really, financially.”

Presiding over the case, Judge Timothy Petts accepted that Darby had largely been “doing well” on her order.

He ordered her to pay a £50 fine for the breach, and the same amount in costs to the probation service.

Darby will pay this at a rate of £5 per fortnight, starting from September 1.

She risks seven days’ imprisonment if she misses a payment.