A MAN who breached a court order banning him from pubs and clubs just three months after leaving prison has avoided returning to La Moye, as a court warned he risked becoming caught in a “revolving door” of offending.
Charley Mills (31) was sentenced to 90 hours of community service and 12 months’ probation after admitting offences including breaching an exclusion order, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and possessing cannabis at the Magistrate’s Court heard on Tuesday.
It comes after Mills was jailed for two years by the Royal Court in May 2025 for offences including domestic abuse and assault.
He was also banned from entering licensed premises for 12 months following his release from prison on 26 June this year.
Advocate Sophie Lister, prosecuting, said Mills entered Lilly’s Mini Market in St Helier at around 8pm on 29 September, where he became “agitated” and began arguing with customers.
He appeared to be “intentionally annoying” customers and started “shouting aggressively” when asked to leave.
Police were called, but Mills resisted arrest and failed to respond to officers’ commands.
Less than two weeks later, on 11 October, Mills caused another disturbance in the Emergency Department at the Hospital, where he was “shouting and swearing” and being “verbally abusive”.
He was also found in possession of 0.1 grams of herbal cannabis.
Mills has a history of offending, including a four-year prison sentence imposed in November 2021 after he was convicted of sexually touching a woman in her 70s without her consent.
That offence happened in November 2020, when Mills approached two women in a car park while intoxicated and touched one of them inappropriately.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Relief Magistrate David Cadin, presiding, said Mills had “numerous previous convictions” and that the “custody threshold is clearly crossed”.
However, Mr Cadin warned against a “revolving door back to La Moye” and said Mills had an “opportunity to work with the multi-agency team” to address the problems contributing to his offending. He gave Mills “full credit” for his early guilty pleas.
Rather than impose another prison sentence, Mr Cadin ordered Mills to complete 90 hours of community service, equivalent to three months’ imprisonment.
Mills was also placed on probation for 12 months, with conditions requiring him to attend the Alcohol and Drug Service and undergo routine and random drug testing.
A further 15-month exclusion order was imposed.
