Woman who smashed her own mother's home up is jailed
A Mid Wales woman who burgled her own mother's home in Welshpool twice as part of a cruel campaign against her has been jailed.
Jocelyn Williams failed to take advantage of the suspended prison sentence she was given when she was first sentenced for the offences in January.
At Mold Crown Crown on Wednesday Williams, 32, admitted breaching her order and Judge Niclas Parry activated the 18-month jail sentence.
At the original hearing Judge Parry said it been nothing other than a cruel campaign against her own mother.
“You targeted her – you were set upon making her life a misery,” he said.
He heard Williams had entered her mother's home in April last year while she was at work and caused devastation by deliberately flooding the house from top to bottom.
She also smashed anything she believed would be of sentimental value to her mother.
Two months later she smashed a window and entered the house again causing more damage.
Prosecuting barrister Mark Connor said that in January Williams, who had been living at a holiday park in Ceredigion had been placed on 20 days rehabilitation and ordered to carry out 250 hours unpaid work. But she had not engaged at all.
Defending barrister Sarah Yates agreed with the judge when he said that there was now no option but to activate the suspended sentence.
The court heard the defendant, a graduate, was involved in a family dispute and was in need of help and assistance.
