A student plumber from Pembroke Dock spent a day in custody after committing a bail act offence, after failing to turn up for a hearing at Haverfordwest magistrates court last week.

Twenty-eight-year-old Graham Lawrence Baxter, of Bush Street, pleaded guilty to a bail act offence in court on Tuesday, as well as admitting charges of being drunk and disorderly in a public place and causing criminal damage to a police cell last month.

Prosecutor Mr. Vaughan Pritchard-Jones told magistrates that shortly after 1.30 am, on September 25, the defendant was ejected from the nightclub Eddies on Quay Street in Haverfordwest, after getting into an argument with another male.

"Mr. Baxter was spoken to by police officers outside the nightclub and given some words of advice, but started to act in an abusive and drunken manner and was arrested," explained Mr. Pritchard-Jones.

"After being taken to the police cell at Haverfordwest Police Station, the defendant defecated on the floor and decided to wipe himself with the bed sheet. Mr. Baxter was arrested this morning after failing to surrender to a warrant issued after his non-appearance before the court last week," added Mr. Pritchard-Jones.

The defendant's solicitor, Mr. Matthew Greenish, told the court that his client, who was studying plumbing at Pembrokeshire College, had got into an argument at the nightclub, but felt an injustice that he had not done much wrong to deserve being ejected by the door staff at the premises.

"He was arrested and his anger escalated, leading to his actions in the police cell, and he is disgusted by his own behaviour," Mr. Greenish said, explaining that his client used to be in the army and suffered with ongoing mental health problems.

"He moved to the Pembrokeshire area from Norwich and is trying to get his life back on track, so this is a blip, a lot of which he has brought on himself," he added.

Magistrates ordered Mr. Baxter to serve a 12-month conditional discharge for being drunk and disorderly in a public place and the criminal damage offence.

He was ordered to pay £132 compensation to Dyfed Powys Police, £85 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

Mr. Baxter was also told by magistrates to spend the rest of the day remanded in custody for the bail act offence.