Milford Haven News
Expensive day for smashing time
9:30am Friday 27th January 2012
A MILFORD Haven man who smashed a police car window while being arrested for smashing a shop window, had an expensive day at the hands of magistrates on Monday.
Jamie Robert William Dowling, aged 23, of Maylor Crescent, was fined £165 and ordered to pay more than £300 in compensation, after smashing a shop and police car window in Milford Haven, on October 19, 2011.
The court heard that Dowling, who had an argument with his ex-girlfriend, lost his temper and struck out at the shop window.
Prosecutor Vaughan Pritchard-Jones said that when officers were called to take him to the police station, he headbutted the vehicle’s glass.
Jonathan Webb, defending, said: “Mr Dowling was intoxicated and reckless, and he knows that he cannot dispute what the officers say.”
Dowling admitted causing criminal damage.
He was fined £65 for breaking the shop window, and £100 for breaking the police car window, and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £15 surcharge.
Magistrates also awarded £197.71 in compensation for the shop damage, and £119.75 for the police car.
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