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Timothy O'Sullivan jailed for sex offender registration breach
Timothy O'Sullivan, 46, of Caerphilly (now of no fixed abode), has been sentenced to 12 weeks’ imprisonment after admitting he failed to comply with sex offender notification requirements.
O’Sullivan, a registered sex offender subject to a notification order under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, did not register at a police station by midnight on 4 August, as required by his seven-day registration obligations.
He appeared at Newport Magistrates’ Court and entered guilty pleas to the breach and to possessing cannabis in Cardiff on 8 August 2026.
The court noted the offence was committed during the operational period of a suspended sentence and cited a “flagrant disregard for court orders” in deciding to impose an immediate custodial term. Magistrates said the sentence would have been 18 weeks but for the guilty plea. O’Sullivan was also ordered to pay £85 in prosecution costs.
No separate penalty was imposed for the cannabis offence, though the drug was ordered to be forfeited and destroyed.