The father of a Conservative MP alleged to have obstructed officers investigating his son for fleeing the scene of a car crash has had a charge against him dropped. Darryl Hamilton Wallis, 57, is the father of Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis who was found guilty of three driving offences.
On November 28 last year the Mercedes Wallis Jr was driving hit a lamppost and telegraph pole in Church Road in Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan. Wallis claimed he left the scene of the crash out of fear he would be "raped, killed, or kidnapped" due to post-traumatic stress disorder which he said he developed after being raped in September.
Taking to the stand at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Monday, Wallis Jr said the day before the crash he was at home "wearing clothes I felt most comfortable in, which I often do when I’m alone, which are women’s clothes". Peter Rouch QC, defending, asked Wallis: "How long have you felt like this?" Wallis replied: "Since I was a small child."
