A LLANELLI army veteran has been jailed after breaching a community order.

Cameron Doyle, 24, of Golgfor, Penyfan, pleaded guilty before magistrates in Llanelli yesterday charged with breaking his curfew after he was absent from his home for a number of nights during December.

The court heard how Doyle broke the curfew — imposed following a charge of common assault — on seven occasions during a period of 50 days.

Mitigating, solicitor Steve Lloyd said: "The court will look at whatever compliances there has been and give him credit for that.

"There are a number of background issues that led Cameron Doyle into this court.

"The first one that I want to refer to is the some four years in the armed forces he did active service in Afghanistan.

"He lost a very close friend out there and lost another friend just after her had left there.

"He had decided that he couldn't deal with the army any longer. During the last eight weeks that he was serving his mother passed away.

"He has little or no contact with his father.

"He was living in the curfewed address with an ex-partner. That obviously for anybody is a difficult thing to do.

"It's very hard to then continue to live together because conflicts arise and they did arise between Cameron Doyle and his partner."

Doyle was sentenced to ten weeks in prison.