A Machynlleth man who repeatedly damaged property belonging to a woman will spend Christmas in prison after magistrates said he has a “flagrant disregard for people and their property.”

Barrie Wilks, of 2 Craig Henffordd, appeared for trial before Aberystwyth magistrates on 17 December.

The 40-year-old was found guilty of four charges of criminal damage.

The court heard he damaged a fence in Machynlleth belonging to Helen Davies on 15 and 27 September.

On 28 September he damaged a CCTV camera belonging to the same victim, and on 3 November damaged windows.

Magistrates, jailing Wilks for 12 weeks, said the offences were so serious due to “the repeat offending on same victim” and that Wilks had a history of previous convictions.