Homeless man in court for sitting outside Sainsbury's in Wrexham

Neil Young had been bailed by North Wales Police on condition he does not enter The Plas Coch Retail Park, does not enter Sainsbury’s and does not enter within the immediate perimeter of the supermarket.

But he was arrested by the police on New Year’s Eve after he was found sitting outside Sainbury’s with his bag.

Young, 31, who gave a c/o address at Pentre Gwyn, Wrexham but who had been living in a tent near Wrexham Tennis Centre, admitted breaching his bail.

His solicitor Euros Jones told a special New Year’s Day sitting of North East Wales Magistrates’ Court at Mold yesterday that his client was simply waiting for a Good Samaritan.

He told how the defendant had been put up in a Premier Inn on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day by a couple as a gesture of good will.

They had promised him that they would do the same on New Year’s Eve and Young had simply been outside Sainsbury’s waiting for them.

He was simply sitting there and there had been no aggression or begging but he accepted he was in breach of his bail, explained Mr Jones.

Magistrates agreed to release Young from custody and he was bailed until January 14 to answer charges of theft, public order, resisting police and possessing crack cocaine.