Details of paedophile’s play area ban are revealed

DETAILS of a banning order which allow a paedophile closer to public spaces have been revealed.

Judge Eleri Rees approved an application to amend John Christian Davies’ Sexual Harm Prevention Order at Cardiff Crown Court.

It means Davies, 42, is now allowed within 10m of Trenchard Drive and Gibson Close in Llanishen.

The amendment also covers the Upper Llanishen Brook open space and south of Trenchard Drive.

In September 2015, Judge Rees imposed an order that banned him from going within 50m of any park, play area or green space in Cardiff – as defined by a list of more than 300 locations.

The application was to help the Probation Service find accommodation for the defendant, who was previously known as Christian John. He does not currently have a fixed address.

Judge Rees said she was “satisfied” as to the purpose of the application.

She confirmed the 50m restriction would remain in place regarding all other parks, play areas and green spaces in the city.

Davies was jailed in September 2015 for two years for breaching a previous Sexual Harm Prevention Order by approaching an eight-year-old child in a city park.

That incident occurred in the Mill Road park in Ely on an evening in May that year.

The court previously heard Davies, who was drunk at the time, sat and watched a group of children playing.

He then said to a boy: “You come with me now.”

The boy began to cry and another child phoned his mother who, with help from a passerby, managed to keep Davies at the park until police arrived.

Prosecutors at that hearing said he had a long criminal record and had been before the courts for more than 40 previous offences.

In 2004 he was jailed for 30 months after being caught with a bottle of chloroform, a syringe, a roll of tape, a 10in knife and a camera in his bag.