Owain Williams

Owain Williams is the leader of Llais Gwynedd a Welsh nationalist and regionalist political party in Gwynedd, north Wales, and councillor representing the Clynnog Fawr ward for Gwynedd Council.

He is a fervent nationalist committed to an independent Wales. In the 1960s he was imprisoned for bombing the site of the future Llyn Celyn reservoir but later turned to the democratic route being the chairman of the Independent Wales Party as well as a member of, at different times, both the Welsh Labour Party and Plaid Cymru. In May 2008 he was elected chairman of Llais Gwynedd after their emergence following the 2008 Welsh Local Elections.In the summer of 2009,he was reported to the authorities for leaving the bodies of several dead sheep to rot in his fields.^[1]

References

1. ^ Daily Post, "Rebel with a cause" (Ian Parri), May 9 2008

• Devine, Darren (28 July 2009). "Radical ‘paved way for devolution’". Western Mail. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/07/28/radical-paved-way-for-devolution-91466-24252964/. Retrieved 15 February 2010. 

http://www.caernarfonherald.co.uk/caernarfon-county-news/local-caernarfon-news/2009/08/27/councillor-labels-accuser-a-lily-livered-coward-88817-24539531/

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