Rhos on Sea - POLICE APPEAL: Police urge public to be wary after Rhos on Sea thefts

POLICE APPEAL: Police urge public to be wary after Rhos on Sea thefts

Published date: 09 October 2013 |

Published by: Staff reporter
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THE PUBLIC are reminded not to leave their valuables in cars, after a spate of thefts in the Rhos on Sea area earlier this month.

North Wales Police are urging the public to take items such as laptops, phones, purses and cameras from their cars, rather than leaving them on display to tempt thieves.

The call comes after three cars parked on Dinerth Road were damaged and items were stolen from them, some time during the night between October 1 and 2.

PC Rob Jones said: “We’re appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the cars being broken into. But this is also a plea for people not to leave valuables in cars.”

 

Anyone with information is asked to call PC Rob Jones in Colwyn Bay Police Station on 101, or to contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.

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Rhos on Sea - Pedestrian killed after car hits shop in Rhos on Sea, Conwy

17 April 2012 Last updated at 17:31

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Pedestrian killed after car hits shop in Rhos on Sea, Conwy

Ambulance crews at the scene in Rhos on Sea

A woman killed when a car hit a shop in Rhos on Sea, Conwy, has been named.

Pedestrian Celia Mary Service, 72, from Colwyn Bay, died in the incident involving a Jaguar car at about 15:36 BST on Monday.

Another woman was seriously injured and the car driver was taken to hospital. The promenade was closed between Cayley Embankment and Penrhyn Road.

Police would like to speak to the occupants of a green Renault Scenic car which stopped to offer assistance.

"The Jaguar car involved is understood to have passed directly in front of them before mounting the footpath and the passenger of the Renault Scenic is known to have got out of the vehicle immediately and run across the scene to offer assistance," said Pc Mark Lightfoot.

"We are keen to trace this person as it is likely that the occupants of the Renault Scenic may have witnessed the collision and the situation leading up to it," he added.

North Wales Police are also asking anyone who saw the collision, or anyone with information on the collision, to contact the Roads Policing Unit at St Asaph on 101.

Rhos on Sea - Disgraced former doctor from Rhos-on-Sea breached sexual offences prevention order

Disgraced former doctor from Rhos-on-Sea breached sexual offences prevention order

• May 13, 2011 00:00
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A DISGRACED former doctor asked a cleaner if she minded if he went around naked in his flat, a court heard yesterday.

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A DISGRACED former doctor asked a cleaner if she minded if he went around naked in his flat, a court heard yesterday.
When the 40-year-old woman went to Robert Arwel Jones’s home at High Lane, Rhos on Sea, she found the ironing board set up in his bedroom and a camera on a tripod on top of a wardrobe, Caernarfon crown court was told.
She was upset and shocked by what happened and then she later heard of 47-year-old Jones’s past, which included a sexual assault conviction.
Prosecutor Elen Owen said Jones was on bail when the incident with the cleaner happened.
This followed an earlier incident when he arranged to meet a woman at a pub to discuss a job as a sales rep.
They knew each other from an ex-offenders’ group.
The barrister said the woman had mentioned the planned meeting to a probation officer and police were alerted.
A detective from the North Wales police public protection unit found Jones at the pub with a laptop computer, and he was arrested.
Jones was jailed for 16 months after he admitted breaching a sexual offences prevention order imposed for an indefinite term at Mold crown court in May 2009, and attempting to breach it.
The 2009 case involved sexual assault and causing a 17-year-old beauty therapy student to engage in sexual activity after she went for a job interview at his home.
Jones had become a holistic therapist.
He also had previous convictions for possessing child porn and indecent exposure.
Yesterday Judge Merfyn Hughes QC banned Jones from conducting meetings with lone women, except his daughter, at his home and other premises not directly connected with his business unless he notifies police.
The sexual offences prevention order also prohibits him from asking anyone to remove their clothing during an interview or administering “hands on therapy” during his business.
Huw Edwards, defending, said: “He expresses great remorse. He’s fallen a great distance from the position he enjoyed some years ago as a registered medical practitioner.”
Mr Edwards said Jones was a self-employed worker for a healthcare firm.
Judge Hughes said: “It’s clear there’s an established pattern of sexual offending.”
He said Jones met his first victim at a group for former offenders.
He told him: “You identified her as an individual who might be susceptible to your sexual advances.
“Fortunately the matter came to the attention of her own offender manager and a police officer intercepted the meeting and arrested you.
“She was a vulnerable female who has been affected very badly by what you attempted to do with her.
“Had she met you, I have no doubt you would have sought further meetings of a sexual nature.”

Rhos on Sea - 'Yobs won't ruin Rhos' Vandalism at paddling pool have left councillors “deeply saddened”.

Yobs won't ruin Rhos'

Published date: 27 April 2011 | 

Published by: David Waddington
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“MINDLESS yobs” who vandalised a Rhos on Sea paddling pool have left councillors“deeply saddened”.
Damaged cones and broken glass were discovered in the pool on Abbey Road following seasonal refurbishment work, which had been carried out in preparation for the pool to be filled for the summer.

Rhos on Sea councillor, Roger Parry, said: “The council had put cones around the pool after completing some work on it before for filling it with water. They had given it a lick of paint and make it look nice and clean.
“I went there on Thursday morning with Cllr Phil Edwards and Cllr Merfyn Thomas, which is when we believed it was going to be filled, and the cones had all been thrown into the pool, and there was broken glass everywhere.
“Finding vandalism like that in such a short time left us all deeply saddened. It is a very popular pool and a lovely area for kids.”

After discovering the potentially dangerous damage, the councillors got out their brushes and shovels to help clean up the pool in time for the Bank Holiday weekend.

Cllr Parry said: “We grabbed our brushes and cleaned it all up to try and make the place safe.
“There is a lot of exciting things happening in Rhos on Sea to improve the environment. We have the orchard near there which was planted by some of the local schoolchildren. The mindless yobs who did this damage will not ruin Rhos on Sea.”

Assistant manager at First Step Day Nursery in the village, Nikki Whalley, confirmed the paddling pool is important to the community.

She said: “As a nursery we use the park near the pool in the summer to take the children there. We always do a risk assessment and if we came across anything like broken glass, we can’t use it. So something like this really affects the children.
“There isn’t a lot of money around at the moment for people and everything is so expensive, so it's nice to go somewhere which is a free facility. A lot of our parents use the paddling pool and have campaigned to save it in the past with petitions. Feelings run very high when things like this are vandalised.”

Colwyn Bay Shop Robbery by Rhos on Sea man.

A Rhos on sea man,Andrew Abbott 42 of First avenue Rhos on Sea, and his friend David Lightfoot 36, were remanded in custody following admitting to the Robbery at Colwyn Bay Natwest Bank,
the pair snatched £11,270 of takings from the off - licence.
also a mother of 5, Angela Cameron denied in the robbery in the town centre.
she however denied any involvement.She was bailed until a further hearing on May 13th.
Abbott and Lightfoot were both remanded in custody for pre sentence reports at Caernarfon Crown court