A SPICE addict has been handed a suspended sentence after admitting breaching a court order and criminal damage, having smeared a police cell in faeces.

Christopher John Thomas Walsh, 31, of no fixed abode, had been shouting abuse and swearing in public while trying to source some spice, when he was arrested in Wrexham town centre on November 13.

A three year criminal behaviour order (CBO) put in place on October 19 last year prohibits him from doing such behaviour, and for Walsh, it represented a third such breach, and he had served 14 days in prison following his most recent one in August.

Anouska Youds, prosecuting, told the Magistrates Court in Mold, how Walsh, who has been living in a tent in the grounds of the old town centre police station, had been in the area around Wrexham bus station shouting at a female companion that he just needed “a f*****g joint”.

Ms Youds went on to say how his loud and abusive behaviour had caused many people, including children who had not long got out of school, to stare, with Walsh also shouting “This is what happens when there’s no mamba”.

Even after being told by police that his behaviour was likely to be in breach of his CBO, Walsh shouted “I may as well get out of f*****g town now then.” However, later on the same day, Walsh was seen on Chester Street shouting and swearing again and he was eventually arrested by police in the Waterworld carpark.

Ms Youds said Walsh was taken to the police custody suite in Llay, and while in his cell, was observed by officers on CCTV placing his hand in the toilet bowl and smearing his faeces all over the walls.

Alun Williams, defending, told the court how his client had been addicted to spice for a period of eight years, and had no recollection about any of the incidents that had taken place because he had been “rattling” at the time.

There had been a shortage of the drug for around three days and that Walsh had grown particularly agitated, and was in a state of withdrawal.

After being told what he had done at the custody cell, Walsh told his solicitor he was “mortified” and how he believed he had “been in his tent since yesterday” which Mr Williams said offered some insight into his current mental state.

Mr Williams acknowledged that although this represented the third breach of the CBO, Walsh, who was born in Widnes, Cheshire, before moving to Wrexham as a child, had not been receiving any help, because his addiction to spice was not one recognised for drug rehabilitation.

The Probation Services confirmed that Walsh had been doing better recently and communicating with them and that they would support an application to keep him in the community.

Magistrates handed Walsh an eight week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months. He must pay compensation of £70 for the cost of cleaning the police cell and a court surcharge of £122.