The editor of a local weekly title in Wales has been fined £500 for identifying a youth in a court report, but insists doing so was “in the public interest”.

Thomas Sinclair, 37, identified a fisherman who crashed his boat in an article for the Pembrokeshire Herald, published in February.

He was charged with breaching Section 49 of the Children and Young Persons Act which bans the identification of anyone under 18 concerned in youth court proceedings, reported by Press Gazette.