South Wales Police said a 37-year-old man from Cowbridge had been released under investigation.
It followed an incident in which a car collided with a lamppost at Church Road in Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, on Sunday 28 November at 01:10 GMT. Mr Wallis’s office confirmed he had been arrested but had not been charged. A statement said he was involved in an accident and was “assisting police with their enquiries”.
South Wales Police said no injuries had been reported.
The incident took place on Church Road in Llanblethian
A message on Mr Wallis’s Facebook page said a planned surgery with constituents on Saturday had to be postponed until the New Year as he had tested positive for Covid.
Presumably, Wallis was partying before the lockdown is announced.
Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis denies four traffic offences in Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan in November last year.
A witness told Cardiff Magistrates he saw the MP wearing women’s clothing inside a Mercedes which had crashed into a lamppost.
The trial at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court continues.
The Highway Code says:
Under Rule 97 of the Highway Code, motorists are advised to wear “footwear and clothing which does not prevent you using the controls in the correct manner”. While driving in high heels isn’t illegal, wearing them could lead to you being charged with careless driving if they affect your ability to drive safely.
Carina Hughes, prosecuting, said residents Adrian Watson and Natalie Webb were having a gathering when just after 1am they heard a “very loud bang, significantly louder than a domestic firework”. Mr Webb said he went outside and saw amber flashing lights and that a Mercedes E-Class saloon had crashed into the lamppost.
Mr Watson said he looked inside the car and saw “a white male wearing a white long-sleeve top which was tight to the body, a black leather PVC mini-skirt, tights, dark shoes with a high heel and a pearl necklace”. Ms Webb in her statement described the male as wearing “black court shoes”.
Mr Watson said he was going to call the police and that Wallis began walking away from the scene. He followed him and witnessed him make two phone calls and during one he claimed he was being “accosted”. He was then picked up by his father in a Land Rover Discovery.
Police sergeant Gareth Handy said that when he attended Wallis’ family home address, which he described as a “mansion” and “absolutely colossal”, he forced entry into the property out of concern for the MP. When police searched Wallis’ flat at the property they found a “blonde wig” on a table. Pc Louis Hall found Wallis in a bedroom within the house asleep and said: “He appeared to be wearing make-up. His eyelids were dark, his lips were red, and his cheeks were bronzed and he had red nail polish on his toes.” The black leather skirt and pearl necklace were found next to the bed and were seized by police.
While being cross-examined Wallis said he had been driving “relatively slow”, because he was approaching a double bend, when he saw a cat. “I just remember instinctively swerving,” he said.
Miss Hughes suggested Wallis could have made an emergency stop rather than swerving. “You have seen the damage to the telegraph pole and both airbags have discharged. That’s not a low-speed collision?” she suggested.
“I don’t recall how fast I was going, I just swerved to avoid the cat,” Wallis said.
Ms Hughes said: “You hit it with such force that the pole snapped. The reason you hit the pole isn’t because there was a cat. You were driving without due care and attention and resulted in you losing control and driving into that wall and telegraph pole.”
Wallis replied: “That’s not true. There was a cat and I swerved to avoid it.”
Ms Hughes told Wallis he had enough time to phone the police after he arrived back in the safety of his own home when analysis of his mobile showed he made a number of calls and text messages to his estranged wife. Wallis said: “If I was able to I would have done.”
The trial at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court is expected to last up to two days.
An MP has been found guilty of failing to stop and report an accident after crashing his car in the early hours of 28 November last year.
Bridgend’s Conservative MP, Jamie Wallis was also found guilty of leaving his car in a dangerous position, but cleared of driving without due care and attention.
He was fined £2,500 and disqualified from driving for six months.
Wallis had denied the traffic offences, which took place in Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan in the early hours of the morning.
A spokesperson for the Conservative Party said it was right that Wallis had been punished after being found guilty of the offences, but they would not be taking any further action and will continue to provide welfare support.
Just another sleazy, self entitled, self-serving, Tory MP. Who doesn’t believe that he should be responsible for his own actions. (Though the above traits I cannot claim to be politically specific)
This happened in November last year, I have to wonder if the OP has posted this for political reasons " being an admitted Socialist in his description" and diggng out as much dirt as possible
Well, now he’s had the trial and verdict, he’ll have to start trying to live it down.
His Party may decide to overlook it but will his voting constituents forget when the next election time comes round?
I guess he panicked but it was very foolish to run away and not report the accident, especially when he left his car in that dangerous position - if he did all that to try to hide the fact that he was “cross-dressing”, which is not illegal, then he was not thinking rationally.
I don’t think his Father did him any favours by picking him up and driving him home. If I’d been his Parent, I would have tried to persuade him to report the accident and sort out making the car safe instead of just leaving the damaged car blocking the street and driving him home.
Who cares about what people wear these days in their own leisure time - if it doesn’t affect their ability to do their job, it’s no big deal and he could probably survive the gossiping tongues until they found something else to gossip about.
By choosing to run away, he’s now got these driving convictions as well as the gossip about his clothing preferences - and the decisions he made don’t reflect well on him - if I was a constituent, I wouldn’t want to be represented by someone who is willing to break the law so easily and run away from difficult situations.
Would you trust a person who runs an “employment claims company” banned from operating by the the Ministry of Justice because of operational misconduct, who then becomes co-owner of a ‘sugar daddy’ dating website, later arrested (after running away and claiming to have a covid infection) on suspicion of driving while unfit after his car collided with a lamppost only to assert that he “fled the scene” of the car collision due to having a form of post-traumatic stress disorder after allegedly being sexually assaulted (a gay date that “went wrong”) in September of 2021 and was now contemplating becoming “trans”.
