A CONVICTED rapist who held a licence with Carmarthenshire Council has had the licence revoked.
Daniel Clive Gravell, of Carmarthen, was sentenced to nine years in prison last year after being found guilty of rape and admitting a charge of voyeurism.
A Carmarthenshire Council licensing sub-committee met to consider suspending or revoking the personal licence issued to Gravell in 2017 in accordance with the 2003 Licensing Act.
A licensing officer said the conviction was relevant and that correspondence had been sent on three occasions to the prison where Gravell is serving his sentence outlining the process the council intended to take. He said Gravell hadn’t responded.
Details of the licence weren’t given, but Gravell had been managing the Baltic Inn and Restaurant near Pontyates, a short distance from Carmarthen.
According to the Home Office, personal licences allow someone to sell alcohol on behalf of a business that has a premises licence and allow the person to act as the designated premises supervisor.
A Dyfed-Powys Police officer said it supported the licence being revoked.
Last May Gravell, then 43, was found guilty following a trial at Swansea Crown Court of raping a 19-year-old woman in 2002. Gravell admitted to a separate count of voyeurism in 2021 against a woman he had consensual sex with before taking naked photos of her without her knowledge or consent. He was jailed for a total of nine years.
The sub-committee was told by a council legal officer that Gravell “is not present for obvious reasons” and that he didn’t need to be. “He has had ample opportunities to make representations,” he said.
Councillors retired to consider the evidence and decided to revoke the personal licence.
They had been expecting to make a separate decision on a personal licence held by another person, Aran Baker, but it emerged that papers were served to an address which he no longer resided at. The matter was adjourned.
