Welshpool family warned to prepare for jail sentences

A judge has warned a Welshpool family of three they could face jail after being convicted of trying to pervert the course of justice.

Caernarfon Crown Court heard a letter making a bogus job offer which was used in a bid to get a man’s tagged overnight curfew lifted by a judge raised suspicion.

A jury took just 30 minutes to convict Matthew Burns, 23, of Bron y Buckley, Welshpool, who had been on bail for affray, and his factory worker mother  Amanda Chambers, 46, and stepfather Richard Chambers, 58, of trying to pervert the course of justice.

They were bailed for reports and Judge Merfyn Hughes warned the defendants to prepare for a prison sentence.

The jury heard that the letter was sent by the Crown Prosecution Service to the police to be checked out. Mr Chambers told a detective that he was married to Burns’s mother.

Prosecutor Simon Rogers said in the summer of 2013 Burns had been on bail for an offence with a 7pm-7am curfew.

He alleged Burns and Mr and Mrs Chambers were involved in producing the letter purporting to offer employment.