Sex offender who told judge 'I'm the real king' locked up

A MAN wrote bizarre letters to a senior Welsh judge claiming to be the king and calling on him to issue a warrant for the arrest of the “false” King Charles.

- JASON EVANS

Leighton Stanley told the judge that if he didn't arrange for Charles III to be arrested he would find himself being executed for treason.

Swansea Crown Court heard Stanley wrote the letters while on remand after being charged with sexual offences against a girl and a woman.

The judge to whom the letters were sent said they were symptomatic of the 47-year-old defendant's mental health at the time.

Georgia Donohue, prosecuting, told the court that in 2003 a child disclosed to her mother that Stanley had carried out sex acts on her and warned her that if she told anyone about “their secret” Santa would not bring her any Christmas presents.

The court heard the defendant was interviewed about the allegations but no further action was taken against him and the investigation was “closed”.

The prosecutor said Stanley subsequently told a friend about what he had done and the friend reported the disclosures to the police.

The defendant was spoken to and denied the allegation.

The defendant himself then rang police in 2011 to report what he had done. He was interviewed again but claimed he had been drunk when he made the call and denied the offending. The prosecutor said: “The investigation did not go further.”