Charley Mills, who was 25 at the time of the offences, sentenced in the Royal Court this afternoon.

Crown Advocate Mike Preston explained that police first arrested him in February 2020 as they were preparing for a drugs search at a property and spotted him “behaving suspiciously” nearby.

When they searched his car, officers found a bar of cannabis hidden inside a glove and £205. In his pocket was a small piece of cannabis resin.

Mills admitted that he had bought 100g of cannabis at a value of £1,100 in order to sell it at a profit because he was “in a difficult financial position”.

He told police at the time that he had sold “just under” 5g that evening to someone to whom he owed money and therefore didn’t make a profit.

Three months later, Mills broke into a woman’s flat while she was away for the weekend.

While there, he smashed a TV unit, made holes in the walls and a bookcase, dented a radiator, damaged a wifi router, and left a door hanging off the wardrobe. 

When the woman returned, she found him lying on her bed. Police were called and Mills was arrested.

The following month in June, Mills was drunk and disorderly at Havre des Pas. When officers tried to arrest him, he jumped over the sea wall and into the sea to avoid being detained.

Due to “concerns for his welfare”, he was taken to A&E where he was treated by a black male nurse, who he racially abused and threatened by rubbing his knuckles on his chest.

In November, Mills sexually touched a woman in her 70s without her consent in the basement car park of a block of flats. 

Mills had asked a woman in her 60s living in the building “for a cuddle”. She was so scared that she ran away and fell down some stairs, breaking a bone in her hand.

Mills returned to the car park, where he found two women returning their mobility scooters to a secure cage. He then pressed up against one of the women, and put his hands under her jacket – one hand reaching inside her trousers to touch her bottom and the other, remaining outside, touching her front.

He denied the offence and faced a trial in June, but was found unanimously guilty by a jury. 

Appearing before Deputy Bailiff Robert MacRae, sitting with Jurats Jerry Ramsden, Steven Austin-Vautier and Dr Gareth Hughes, he was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for the sexual offence, as well as seven years on the Sex Offenders’ Register. For his other offences, he was handed one year and two months, making a total of five years and two months.