A CONVICTED sex offender has been jailed for breaching his notification requirements for the ninth time after he was found in Rhyl when he should have been in Bangor.

David Nash, 28, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment at Mold Crown Court today (February 15).

He had been convicted of failing to comply with sex offenders register notification requirements at Llandudno Magistrates’ Court on January 25.

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Prosecuting, Karl Scholz told the court that, in September 2013, Nash was sentenced to five years in a Young Offender Institution after being convicted of two counts of sexual assault and four of rape.

The last prison sentence Nash received was last September, when he was jailed for eight months for another failure to comply with notification requirements.

When he was released on licence in January, he was told to reside at approved premises in Bangor, but was found not to be there when checks were made just days later.

He was then arrested in Rhyl on January 24.

Defending, Sarah Yates said Nash is “quite a vulnerable individual” who “can be led astray”.

Nash did not go to Bangor because he wanted to check on the welfare of his mother, she said.

Ms Yates added that Nash, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, surrendered himself at Rhyl Police Station after realising there was “no way forward”.

“He’s spending so long in custody, he’s actually becoming rather institutionalised to it, which is sad for a man of his age,” she added.

Sentencing, Judge Niclas Parry told Nash that “yet another breach” by him “frankly beggars belief”.

“We’ve met before,” Judge Parry told him.

“It’s essential that your whereabouts are known.

“It could not have been more immediate or deliberate, and the time has come for you to understand that it’s not worth the risk because you’ll only get a short sentence.

“It ends here.”

Judge Parry told Nash, who will also pay a statutory surcharge, that he will be instructed where to live after he is released from prison.

“Live there,” he warned him.