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A sex offender who believes he was wrongly convicted a decade ago failed to tell police where he was staying, a court heard. Following his conviction in 2013, David Nash is required to tell the authorities where he is living but failed to do so.

The 28-year-old admitted failing to comply with notification requirements of the Sex Offenders' Register. Today a judge jailed him for eight months.

Prosecutor Dafydd Roberts told Caernarfon Crown Court that Nash had been convicted of sex offences back in 2013. He was released from prison on August 1 this year.

He was told to go to an office of the probation service and was given an address in Denbighshire where he should live. But he failed to do so and had no fixed address.

He then failed to tell police of his whereabouts every seven days - as required by the terms of his sentence - until police found and arrested him on August 18. Mr Roberts said Nash accepted he was in breach of the notification requirements.

But Mr Roberts said: "He said he was wrongfully convicted in 2013 and he wished to know how to appeal against the imposition of the notification requirements." Mr Roberts said it was Nash's "eighth breach" of those terms.

Sarah Yates, defending, said her client believes he was released from prison into an environment surrounded by drugs which was "detrimental" to his welfare and rehabilitation. It was true he hadn't gone to the accommodation as directed but was living with family and friends.

He should have known about the notification terms but is vulnerable. He has ADHD, cerebral palsy and poor coping skills. At 16 he had been diagnosed with a reading age of a nine-year-old.

The judge His Honour Timothy Petts told David Adam Barry Nash, now of Pool Hey, Stockbridge Village, Merseyside, that he had been convicted of a very serious sexual offence in 2013. He added: "Whatever you feel about the conviction, unless and until that conviction is successfully appealed, you are going to be subjected to the notification requirements.

"And if you don't comply with them you are going to get into further trouble." He said he would be going through a "revolving door".

He said it was the eighth breach and the punishments are steadily increasing.