A Pembroke Dock woman who is set to stand trial later this month for allegations of arson and assault, has been released from custody after breaching her bail conditions.

Forty-eight-year-old Rebecca Lewis, of Stranraer Road, Pennar, appeared at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court on Tuesday, to admit to breaching her bail conditions, which were set at a hearing on July 26, after she denied offences of committing arson and assault in Sageston earlier that month.

Part of Miss Lewis’s bail conditions were not to contact directly or indirectly the complainant Dean Brown; or to enter his address at Bartletts Well Road in Sageston.

Prosecutor Ellie Morgan told the court that Miss Lewis had breached the bail as she was found on Sunday, July 30, in a rear garden shed at the complainant’s home.

“She is an alcoholic and turned up completely announced with a bag of alcohol and a bag of clothes at the defendant’s address, who has put barricades up against his back fence to stop Miss Lewis getting in,” she explained.

Miss Morgan told magistrates that the defendant is set to go on trial on August 30, after denying assaulting the complainant and attempting to set fire to his prize Ironman finisher jacket.

Defence solicitor Mike Kelleher told the court that his client knew the bail conditions, but obviously didn’t take them in.

“The couple have a had a difficult relationship, it has been on and off on both sides, but it always takes two to tango.

“In the past when the two have had a tiff, they have always got back together again, Miss Lewis thought that would happen again, but now knows since her arrest, that will not happen.

“The complainant competes in Ironman Wales, and was coming back home from riding his bike when he saw Miss Lewis up the road, and called the police.

“There were no threats, no arguments, not even a word exchanged. She was sitting in a chair in the back garden.

“She doesn’t agree that she is an alcoholic, in her view she was going to see her boyfriend with a bag of alcohol.

“Miss Lewis now knows how serious the matter is, and if you reinforce the bail conditions today, I’m sure she will abide by them,” he said.

Chief magistrate Mr. James Frederick Caleb Watts told Miss Lewis that the breach of her bail conditions was a ‘very serious matter’ and that if she breached them again, she would be remanded in custody, before magistrates elected to readmit her bail conditions.