In brief: A 31-year-old Jersey man with a significant criminal history has been sentenced to community service and probation after breaching a licensed premises exclusion order just three months after his release from prison. The court warned he risked becoming trapped in a “revolving door” of offending, but chose not to return him to La Moye.
Back in Court Within Months of Release
Charley Mills, 31, appeared before the Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday after admitting a string of offences: breaching an exclusion order, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and possessing cannabis. The Jersey Evening Post reports that Mills had been jailed for two years by the Royal Court in May 2025 for offences including domestic abuse and assault, and was released from prison on 26 June this year. As a condition of that release, he was banned from entering licensed premises for 12 months.
That order lasted, in practical terms, about three months.
According to Advocate Sophie Lister, prosecuting, Mills entered Lilly’s Mini Market in St Helier at around 8pm on 29 September, where he became “agitated” and began arguing with customers. He appeared to be “intentionally annoying” those present and started “shouting aggressively” when asked to leave. Police were called, but Mills resisted arrest and failed to respond to officers’ commands.
A Second Incident at the Hospital
Less than a fortnight later, on 11 October, Mills caused a further disturbance, this time in the Emergency Department at the Hospital, where he was reported to be “shouting and swearing” and “verbally abusive.” He was also found in possession of 0.1 grams of herbal cannabis.
The incidents paint a picture of a man struggling significantly in the weeks and months following his release, with behaviour that placed both members of the public and hospital staff in uncomfortable and disruptive situations.
A Long Record, and a Warning From the Bench
Mills’s history of offending stretches back further still. In November 2021, he received a four-year prison sentence after being convicted of sexually touching a woman in her 70s without her consent. That offence occurred in November 2020, when Mills approached two women in a car park while intoxicated and touched one of them inappropriately.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Relief Magistrate David Cadin acknowledged that Mills had “numerous previous convictions” and that the “custody threshold is clearly crossed.” Nevertheless, Mr Cadin warned against a “revolving door back to La Moye,” noting that Mills had an “opportunity to work with the multi-agency team” to address the underlying problems driving his behaviour. Mills received full credit for his early guilty pleas.
Rather than impose a further custodial sentence, Mr Cadin ordered Mills to complete 90 hours of community service, described as equivalent to three months’ imprisonment, alongside 12 months’ probation. The probation conditions require Mills to attend the Alcohol and Drug Service and to undergo routine and random drug testing.
Source: Jersey Evening Post
