Rhys ab Owen
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affiliationsPlaid Cymru (until 2024)
- Owen John Thomas (father)
Rhys ab Owen | |
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.jpg) ab Owen in 2021 | |
| Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central | |
| Assumed office 8 May 2021 | |
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| Born | 12 January 1987 |
| Party | Independent (since 2024) |
| Other political affiliations | Plaid Cymru (until 2024) |
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| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Profession | Barrister |
Rhys ab Owen (born 12 January 1987), also sometimes referred to as Rhys ab Owen Thomas[1] is a Welsh politician who has represented the South Wales Central constituency since 2021.[2][3] He was suspended from the Senedd for 42 days - the longest suspension of any Senedd Member, after he was found to have "inappropriately touched" a woman on a night out.[4][5] A former member of Plaid Cymru, ab Owen was suspended in 2022, and formally expelled from the party in July 2024. His father, Owen John Thomas, represented the same region for the same party.[1]
Rhys ab Owen was born and raised in Cardiff. He is the son of Sian Wyn Thomas, a former headteacher of Ysgol Glan Morfa, Splott, and Owen John Thomas, a former Plaid Cymru politician who represented the South Wales Central region in the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2007. Rhys attended Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf in Llandaff North, before reading law at the University of Oxford. Ab Owen then undertook the Barrister Training Course at Cardiff University, and has practiced as a barrister since 2010.[6]