Overview

• Phillip Daniel, 34, pleaded guilty at Newport Crown Court to twice assaulting a 15-year-old in Barry and to two assaults in Cardiff.
• He received an extended sentence of eight years in custody plus four years on licence, with lifetime registration on the sex-offender register.
• A sexual harm prevention order runs until 2040, banning him from women’s or unisex toilets and from unsupervised contact with children.
• Hours after attacking the girl, he hid in a cubicle in the women’s toilets at St David’s shopping centre in Cardiff, where staff detained him before police arrived.
• Court evidence noted he was detained under the Mental Health Act until sentencing, reported hearing voices, had a prior community order for assaulting a jogger, and left victims with lasting trauma described in impact statements.