SUPPORT WORKER BIT AND KICKED OFFICERS

Cartrefi Cymru employee struck off for attacking police during arrest

ASUPPORT worker who attacked police officers at a large party held during lockdown has been struck off.

Nerys Williams slapped, headbutted, bit and kicked officers as they tried to arrest her at the 30-strong party held in Bethesda in June 2020.

After being jailed for a year at Llandudno Magistrates Court following the incident, she has now been struck off by a Social Care Wales fitness to practice panel.

At the time of the incident, Social Care Wales said she was employed by Cartrefi Cymru as a support worker.

In a statement issued following the decision, they said: “The Panel found Ms Williams’ current fitness to practise was impaired and imposed a Removal Order which means Ms Williams’ name has been removed from the Register but placed on the List of Persons Removed and she is unable to work in a registered social care role.

“Ms Williams has the right of appeal to the Care Standards Tribunal within 28 days.”

When jailed last year, Llandudno Magistrates Court heard that police turned up to a party in Bethesda after a report of an assault.

When they arrived there they found up to 30 people, some of them in a very drunken state.

As police tried to arrest Williams, she slapped and headbutted one officer, before sinking her teeth into another.

She also kicked a third officer.

Williams, of Ffordd Carneddi in Carneddi, pleaded guilty to three charges of assaulting an emergency worker.

Prosecutor James Neary told the court the situation the police found themselves in was deemed so serious it was classed as a “Red One” incident, and officers had to come from as far as Bangor.

Carla Forfar, defending, told the district judge that her client suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following a “very, very abusive relationship in her past.”

During the incident, Williams, a support worker, had gone into “panic mode”.

She was jailed for 52 weeks and also ordered to pay a £128 surcharge.