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A man who gave a "not fully conscious" woman so-called "love bites" without her consent has been jailed today. Scott Williams gave the woman the marks on her neck and caused extensive bruising.

Williams, 34, of Coedpoeth,Wrexham, told the woman, who had been drinking, to look in the mirror the next morning and asked her if she was planning to go to work "looking like that".

Williams admitted assault causing actual bodily harm. A judge today jailed him for a year for ABH and added two months from an earlier suspended sentence.You can sign up for all thelatest court stories here

Prosecutor Richard Edwards said Williams had been in a relationship with the woman which ended in 2021. He was made subject to a restraining order protecting the woman on September 19 last year.

However on October 18 this year they were talking on the phone. She told him she was painting and he turned up to help, said Mr Edwards.

Later they both drank alcohol and she took some medicine "to help her sleep," the court heard. She remembers being woken up the following day, October 19, at 11.30am.

Williams told her to look in the mirror. She noticed "bruising to her neck, similar to love bites" which had not been there when she went to sleep.

Mr Edwards said: "The defendant made a comment asking her how she was going to go to work looking like that. The defendant knew she works with an ex-partner."

The woman asked Williams to leave and he refused. She called the police and he was arrested.

Williams accepted she was "not fully conscious" and had not consented to the bites. Williams was shown photographs and was "surprised at the extent of the bruising", said Mr Edwards.

Euros Jones, defending, said they had consumed a large quantity of alcohol. He said it had been something of a joke and that he said if she passed out he would give her "love bites".

Mr Jones said: "He accepts he went far over the top. He regrets the extent of the bruising on the neck."

Williams has undertaken courses except "the crucial one" about building better relationships, said Mr Jones. But he is now "alcohol free".

The judge, His Honour Timothy Petts, told Williams he had given her the love bites and there had been "a degree of humiliation" in asking her if she was "going to work like that".

There was a claim it was a "prank gone wrong" but the judge said: "It's difficult to see how it would have been funny."

He jailed Williams who also received a two-month, concurrent term of imprisonment for breaching the restraining order.

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