Wrexham woman who dreamt of being a police officer JAILED for 18 months

A woman who dreamt of becoming a police officer but who inexplicably went off the rails has been jailed for 18 months.

Jessica Dunmer, of Hazel Avenue in Gwersyllt, admitted handling a stolen Volkswagen Transporter and a separate charge of dangerous driving at Mold Crown Court.

Dunmer, 25, had applied to join North Wales Police two years ago and passed her initial assessment.

But she failed a later assessment and instead of becoming a credit to the force she had become a nuisance to North Wales Police, her barrister Robert Edwards told the court.

He said her respectable family were very concerned for her and just wanted their daughter back.

But for some reason she had built up a number of convictions over the last two years, some of them in company which much younger people.

Mr Edwards said Dunmer was not a “Fagin type character” and she herself wished she could just turn the clock back or “press the re-set button”.

But Judge Niclas Parry. said that she had been given chance after chance and had failed to take them and it was now time that the public were given a rest from her.

Prosecuting barrister Karl Scholz said the Volkswagen van, handled by Dunmer, was one of three stolen from an address in Wrexham on January 21 and driven off in convoy.

She was in one of the vans but police could not tell if she was driving or if it was a boy aged 16 who was with her.

The van was found hidden in a domestic garage, a police dog handler followed a trail to where two people had got a taxi, and Dunmer and a boy were identified as the passengers.

Mr Scholz said that the dangerous driving occurred on February 7 when another VW was seen at Meadow’s Lea in Wrexham but it failed to stop.

It accelerated away and officers decided it was too dangerous to pursue – but later it was seen in Borras Road.

In Chester Road the car slowed down and police again saw Dunmer leave the driver’s seat and get into the back while a front seat passenger, a 15-year-old schoolboy, took over the driving.

When stopped she said that she had been the passenger.

The boy was being dealt with at the local youth court.

Defending, Mr Edwards said: “She would like to be able to go back in time and put things right.”

Letters of support had also been written by her parents and grandmother.

But Judge Parry said that she had been before the court on five occasions in 2016 and six of the 11 offences involved motor vehicles.

She had been given suspended sentences and community orders but breached them and offended again.