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Police were left with a £300 clean-up bill after a prisoner pleasured himself in a cell and defecated in a police station shower.

Reginald Roach had been arrested on November 16 over another offence and was in custody at Caernafon police station.

While being held, he defecated in the shower in the custody suite, forcing the police to have to bring in professional cleaners.

He also pleasured himself in a cell, meaning cleaners had to be brought in again, and urinated in one during the time he was being held at Llandudno magistrates court.

In total, the bill for cleaning up after him ran to more than £310.

Roach, of Market Street in Holyhead , had denied a charge of spitting at a custody officer, but changed his plea just before he was due up before magistrates in Caenarfon on Friday morning.

Magistrates were told by prosecutor Angharad Mullarkey that a detention officer, Adam Lavender, had gone to check on Roach at around 4.30am on November 19.

When he looked through the hatch on the cell door Roach spat at him. The saliva landed on Mr Lavender's shoulder.

Defence counsel Ryan Rothwell said Roach had pleaded guilty to some of the charges at an early stage and accepted he had committed the other offences before trial.

He added Roach suffered from mental health issues and was receiving treatment.

The court heard Roach was also in breach of a conditional discharge imposed last March following an incident in Holyhead, when he was seen to approach the Labour party offices in Thomas Street with a tin of white paint which he threw at the building.

He was handed a four week jail term for this incident to be served concurrently with the 20 week sentence he was given for the damage to the cells and spitting at the custody officer.

Roach was also ordered to pay £115 victim surcharge but no order of costs or compensation was made.

After the hearing, Caernarfon Custody Sergeant Rhys Gough said: “Roach’s behaviour is totally unacceptable.

"We will not tolerate assaults and police officers and will always seek to prosecute those responsible as we are determined to enforce our commitment to protect the protectors."