A WREXHAM man has been jailed after turning up for an unpaid work appointment wearing shorts and then refusing to put on protective clothing.

A court heard that Jamie Baker, 30, had pleaded guilty at a hearing in April to drink-driving, having no insurance and driving while disqualified.

He had also admitted failing to attend a probation service appointment on March 8.

The charges related to an incident in March when Baker drove a mile-and-a-half home from the pub while over the limit, just weeks after he had been banned for driving with excess alcohol.

Baker had given a test reading in custody of 56 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, but had been disqualified for two years on February 7 for drink-driving after giving a reading of 93mg on that occasion. The legal limit is 35mg.

At the time district judge Gwyn Jones had imposed a sentence of 26 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months on top of 200 hours of unpaid work.

Appearing back at North East Wales Magistrates Court Baker, of Heol Aben, Cefn Mawr, pleaded guilty to failing to attend an appointment on September 21 without reasonable excuse.

The court also heard he had only completed three hours of unpaid work since April, meaning he had only attended a single induction session.

A probation report described how on one occasion Baker had arrived for a session wearing shorts and refused to wear the required waterproofs.

On one occasion he had claimed to be in the toilet when he was supposed to have been picked up and on another he had gone to a chip shop believing he would be carrying out his unpaid work there.

Bethan Jones, defending, said her client was an "extremely hard-working man" who had full-time employment as a mechanical engineer but had put his job before the unpaid work.

District judge Gwyn Jones said: "You have a job where you are obliged to wear protective equipment so what is the problem?

"Is it not up to the required fashion standard?"

Mr Jones went on to describe Baker's repeated excuses for not attending sessions as "laughable".

"This order could have been easily completed by now," he said.

"You are a hard-working man but, to put it bluntly, you have taken the mick out of this order and this court has had enough."

Activating Baker's 26 week suspended sentence, he was also ordered to pay £85 costs.