A Narberth man appeared in court last week to admit having sex with an underage girl.

Daniel James Howitt, aged 23, had been due to stand trial at Swansea crown court last Tuesday accused of having sexual contact with two teenagers.

But at the last moment he entered a plea of guilty to having sexual intercourse with one of the girls between June 1st, 2010, and August 19th, 2010, when she was 15.

He denied a charge in relation to a second young teenager.

Ian Ibrahim, prosecuting, said the pleas were acceptable and a trial would not now be necessary.

Judge Huw Davies said that when Howitt was sentenced the judge would pass a formal verdict of not guilty in relation to the second girl.

Howitt, who has been bailed to an address in Wattstown, near Porth in the Rhondda Valley, will be sentenced after a probation officer has prepared a report into his background.

Judge Davies warned him that all sentencing options remained open.

Judge Davies said he was concerned to discover that police who video interviewed one of the girls had allowed her to wear a baseball hat which obscured part of her face.

He said he wanted “the word to get back” that witnesses and complainants should never be interviewed in a way that could prevent juries and the courts from seeing their facial expressions.