Ten years for man who attempted to rape woman in pub toilet

A man has been jailed for 10 years for attempting to rape a woman in a pub toilet cubicle.

Kelsey Jones was at The Custom House pub in Connah's Quay when he slammed a woman's head against the wall of the cubicle.

Jones' intentions were "entirely elsewhere and wholly sexual," a judge who sentenced him today said.

Jones put his shirt over her head as he attempted to force himself on her.

The ordeal only ended when another woman came into the toilets, heard the victim's screams, and began shouting.

Jones, a 22-year-old cereal factory worker, of Pennant Street in the town, fled the scene, and handed himself in to police when he saw news of the investigation on social media.

The victim - who had been on a cycle ride before stopping at the pub to watch a football game with her boyfriend - told how her life had changed forever that day.

In a moving victim impact statement read out by the 36-year-old at Mold Crown Court, the victim told how she saw every man as a threat and now had anti-depressants to cope in the day and sleeping tablets to help her sleep at night.

She told how she would never forget the terror she felt.

Jones denied attempted rape, false imprisonment and assault occasioning actual bodily harm but was convicted at an earlier trial at Caernarfon.

On Friday he received ten years for the attempted rape and concurrent three years and two years for the other offences.

He was ordered to register with police as a sex offender for life and an indefinite restraining order was made.