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title: "Released prisoner back in court just three months after leaving La Moye"
url: https://www.nsfw.info/prisoner-back-in-court-three-months-after-la-moye/
published: 2026-10-30T07:30:39+00:00
modified: 2026-10-30T07:30:39+00:00
author: "Chief Editor"
categories: ["Crime"]
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summary: "Charley Mills, 31, breached a licensed premises exclusion order within three months of release from La Moye, admitting four offences including resisting arrest."
publisher: NSFW (https://www.nsfw.info)
---

# Released prisoner back in court just three months after leaving La Moye

**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.

## The NSFW Perspective

There is something almost poignant about a court simultaneously acknowledging that the custody threshold has been “clearly crossed” and then declining to cross it. Relief Magistrate Cadin’s concern about a revolving door is entirely understandable, and the logic of rehabilitation over repeated incarceration is not without merit. But one might reasonably ask: at what point does the revolving door argument stop revolving in the defendant’s favour? Mills has now accumulated convictions spanning sexual assault, domestic abuse, assault, disorderly conduct and drug possession, and managed to breach a court order within three months of his last release. The multi-agency team now tasked with helping him will have their work cut out. Jersey’s residents, particularly those who work in hospital emergency departments or simply pop into a St Helier mini market of an evening, will be hoping the community service and probation route proves more effective than the alternatives have so far.

*Source: [Jersey Evening Post](https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2026/10/30/man-breaches-exclusion-order-just-three-months-after-leaving-prison)*