A North Wales Police officer is to appear before Caernarfon magistrates’ court in the new year over an alleged assault, the police watchdog announced today.

An investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has led to PC Richard Williams facing charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and non-fatal strangulation. 

Mr Williams is due in court on January 4 on the charges, which relate to the degree of force he used while arresting a man in the garden of a property in Porthmadog on May 10.