A 36-YEAR-OLD heroin addict who hassled her parents for cash has been banned from their home village and told by a district judge she shouldn’t be treating them “as a bank”.

Helen Williams, of Hendre Street, Caernarfon, could be jailed for breaching an indefinite restraining order if she enters Llanbedrog again.

District judge Gwyn Jones at Llandudno court also imposed a 36-week jail term, suspended for a year.

He told Williams who admitted five breaches of a restraining order made in 2004: “Whatever difficulties you have with regard to the misuse of drugs, you shouldn’t be treating your parents as a bank.”

Drug rehabilitation was ordered and Williams, who appeared in custody before the court, must pay £170 costs.

She was also fined £120 and banned from driving for 12 months for having no insurance.

Judge Jones told her: “Your parents are very vulnerable and affected badly by these continued breaches of the order.

“It’s having an impact on their enjoyment of their home life.”

Williams during the last few weeks had gone to Llanbedrog “begging”, the court heard.

Prosecutor James Neary said Williams’s behaviour affected the health of her parents.

She had at one stage been given £1,500 by her mother and further sums of cash.

The defendant lost her temper if she didn’t get money.

“We gave her money just to get her to leave us alone. We don’t want her coming to the village to cause a disturbance,” Meryl Williams had declared in a statement.

At the weekend she had turned up again and wanted hundreds of pounds.

Solicitor Deborah Davies, defending, said Williams’s parents had been “soft” with her but had now had enough. The daughter desperately needed help.

Her heroin addiction had become a problem.

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