A convicted sex offender bled to death after his genitals were cut off on a disused industrial estate.
Reginald Alan Roach, 63, was found in a pool of blood by a dog walker on the Bryn Cegin industrial estate in Bangor, north Wales on Sunday – two weeks after he missed a day in court for breaching a sex offenders order.
He had been convicted earlier this year of flashing staff by being naked from the waist down in a Travelodge foyer.
Roach was found ‘unresponsive’ and died after sustaining wounds to his private parts, an inquest heard today.
North Wales Police announced an investigation into the death on Monday, saying the death was ‘unexplained’.
Officers are investigating his death but suspect that no-one else is involved.
Kate Sutherland, acting senior coroner for north west Wales, opened the hearing today in Caernarfon into the death of Roach.
Dr Brian Rodgers carried out a post mortem examination on the deceased, who lived at the Ty Newydd, bail hostel on Llandygai Road, Bangor.
Mrs Sutherland gave the provisional cause of death as ‘shock and haemorrhaging due to incised wounds removing genitalia’.
Roach had a court appearance listed at Llandudno Magistrates Court on October 31, about a week before his death, when he faced a charge of failing to comply with notification requirements in relation to the sex offenders register at Caernarfon Police Station on September 13, 2022.
In August Roach admitted exposing himself at a Travelodge Hotel after he ‘bizarrely’ asked staff to place a bet for him while naked from the waist down in Gwynedd.
A court heard in August he was being housed by the council at a Travelodge in Gwynedd but entered a public area naked from the waist down.
Roach’s defence solicitor said that he had suffered a serious brain injury when he was younger and there was not a sexual motive to what happened.
The prosecution said he moved his hips to draw attention to his lower half making a hotel worker ‘deeply uncomfortable’.
The defendant said he was a ‘nuisance’ and had apologised to staff.
He appeared in custody before a district judge at Llandudno court and admitted exposing himself. A 16-week suspended jail term was imposed and Roach must pay £150 compensation to the hotel worker ‘disgusted by his behaviour.’
In 2020 he admitted destroying a poppy memorial the day after Remembrance Sunday in 2019.
In 2019, police were let with a £300 clean-up bill after Roach pleasured himself in his cell and defecated in a police station shower.
The acting senior coroner adjourned the hearing to a later date pending the result of further investigations.
A spokesperson for North Wales Police said: ‘Following our statement earlier this week regarding the death of a man who was discovered collapsed at Parc Bryn Cegin, Llandegai, the Coroner today opened an inquest.
‘Following a Home Office Post Mortem, and to end unhelpful speculation, we can confirm that we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death of Reginald Alan Roach, but would renew our appeal for anyone who saw an elderly man, approximately 5’8” tall and wearing blue jeans with a grey hooded top in the area between 10am on Saturday, November 5th and 9am on Sunday, November 6th to please contact us on 101 quoting reference B168289.