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May 11, 2023

Eingesperrt im Jahr 2022: Die Gesichter von 638 Menschen, die in den letzten 12 Monaten in Wales inhaftiert waren

Es war ein weiteres arbeitsreiches Jahr für die Gerichte in Wales mit vielen hochkarätigen Fällen

It was another busy year for the courts in Wales with many high-profile cases dealt with

Here are the criminals who have been sent to prison for the most serious crimes in Wales during 2022. It was a busy year as the courts dealt with a huge number of cases.

Some of those cases sent shockwaves around the UK including the tragic murder of five-year-old Logan Mwangi. His mother Angharad Williamson, stepdad John Cole, and his stepbrother, 14-year-old Craig Mulligan, were jailed for a combined 72 years. Recap the full trial here.

Another shocking case was the murder of respected doctor in a homophobic attack by two men and a teenage girl. Dr Gary Jenkins, 54, was brutally beaten, kicked and punched to death in Bute Park, Cardiff. Audio of the horrendous attack, carried out by Jason Edwards, 25, Lee Strickland, 36, and Dionne Timms-Williams, 17, depicted Dr Jenkins pleading for help and for his attacks to "Leave me alone" but his cries were left unheeded.

Other sentences include a man who killed an expectant father with a single punch in an unprovoked attack and a man who carried out a string of street attacks on women in Cardiff. Here are the criminals and their crimes.

Daniel Howells-Thomas

An expectant father who was killed by a single punch thrown by a cowardly thug in an unprovoked attack died three weeks before the birth of his daughter. Keyron Curtis, 21, suffered a catastrophic bleed on the brain after he was knocked unconscious by Howells-Thomas outside the Colliers Arms pub in Penywaun, Aberdare, at 1am on October 17, 2021.

As a result of the punch Mr Curtis was knocked to the floor and hit his head on a car door with force before hitting the pavement. He never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff on October 18. Read Keyron's dad's emotional impact statement here.

Luke Williams

He was jailed for manslaughter after killing a much-loved grandfather with a single punch when an argument over bullying children escalated. "Pumped-up" Williams, 24, killed Karl Saffy with a punch in Cristionydd in Wrexham, a court heard. Williams, who had pleaded guilty to manslaughter, put his head in his hands as he was sentenced at Mold Crown Court. He will serve six years minus 134 days which he had already spent in custody on remand.

Ashmeet Soni

He sexually assaulted and violated three women in a week in a series of street attacks. Two of Soni's victims were attacked in broad daylight on busy roads – one while she was walking with her young children. The third victim was dragged into an alleyway and violently assaulted while she was on a night out. Speaking after the sentencing police said such stranger attacks were extremely unusual but in the defendant "we had an extremely dangerous individual".

Marcus Barfield

A man torched his friend's Range Rover after feeling "rejected" when he was asked to leave the house. Marcus Barfield had been staying with his victim at his home on Gower but reacted badly when told it was time to go. The 26-year-old issued a series of threats against his friend before stuffing bags of rubbish under the expensive 4x4 and setting it ablaze.

Jordan Edmunds and Kieran Payne

A drug dealer's large collection of trainers and designer clothes is now in the hands of police after he was arrested while on the run abroad. Edmunds, alongside fellow gang member Payne, played key roles in a sophisticated £1m conspiracy which used the cover of a busy car recovery business to hide its criminal activities. Payne was the co-owner of the garage which served as the gang's base while Edmunds was a "wheeler dealer" who used his connections to put customers in touch with gang. Read how long they got sentenced to here.

Peter Mitchell

The cocaine dealer caught red-handed making a delivery to Swansea was the former "lieutenant" of an Irish drug boss who fled to Spain following the killing of a crime reporter, according to police. Peter "Fatso" Mitchell moved to the Costa del Sol after a police crackdown in the wake of the assassination of journalist Veronica Guerin in Dublin in 1996. Read how long he was sentenced to here.

Ben Rose, Liam Bell, and Marley Craven

The trio used a stolen Range Rover to transport a consignment of contraband to a prison. The package – containing tobacco, mobile phones and chargers, drugs, and miniature bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey and Smirnoff vodka – was thrown over the fence of the jail before the trio sped off. Police were alerted to what was going on and a high-speed pursuit took place which ended with a "stinger" device being deployed to burst the tyres of the luxury 4x4.

Ivan Hernandez

The teenager stabbed another youth during a planned confrontation in Cardiff city centre which was witnessed by shoppers. Hernandez, 19, became involved in an altercation with a group of four boys in St Mary Street at around 4.15pm on November 5, 2021, which resulted in two people being stabbed.

Stephen Hill

He repeatedly punched his partner in the face and knocked her to the ground just weeks after she had given birth to their baby. Hill downed almost a bottle of whisky before launching the brutal assault and his victim subsequently needed surgery to fit a metal plate into her face to repair the damage to her eye socket.

Airon Taylor

The teenager who launched a vicious "revenge" attack on another youngster with a meat cleaver has no remorse for his actions. Taylor set about his victim with the 10in-long blade after encountering him in Swansea city centre then casually walked away "as if he didn't have a care in the world". The man the 19-year-old attacked suffered a fractured skull and deep gashes to his knees which cut tendons and chipped the bone and which required surgery.

Imran Ali, Majidedeen Arif, and Daniel Hassan

The trio of travelling drug dealers were caught red-handed thanks to an eagled-eyed PCSO who became suspicious of their activities. Checks showed the car the trio were in had been hired from Birmingham Airport the previous day and driven to Swansea. Inside were three men from the west Midlands along individual deals of crack cocaine wrapped in cigarette papers on which was written the phone number of a drugs gang.

David Bishop and Matthew Coles

A vulnerable wheelchair user with an amputated leg was the victim of a "disgusting" burglary where thieves took cash and bank cards. Bishop, 39, and Coles, 38, targeted their victim's property in Cardiff on May 10, 2021.

Adrian Rees

He repeatedly punched and bit his girlfriend after going home drunk following a Christmas party with workmates. An intoxicated Rees began challenging the woman to a fight before raining blows down on her and then sinking his teeth into her lip.

Carwyn Roberts

The cruel and manipulative man pretended to be a lawyer and a doctor in a bid to control his partner's life – even persuading the vulnerable woman she was pregnant. Roberts created a series of fake people and email accounts in order to spin a web of lies which ranged from the couple buying a house together to convincing her she had been drugged and sexually abused in her own home. He also persuaded her to give up her job at a school after saying he had secured a new position for her with the local council.

Michael Crossley

The paedophile travelled to Wales with sex toys, condoms, and lubricant after arranging to sexually abuse what he believed would be a young child. Crossley spent months chatting to someone he believed to be the girl's mother online and over the phone before making the trip from his home in Bolton to carry out his sick fantasies. In fact he had been communicating with an undercover policewoman and officers were waiting for him when he arrived at the meeting point in Cardiff. Read the full story here.

Phillip Morgan

A dad-of-five caught with a kilo of cannabis claimed the large amount of the drug was all for his personal use. Morgan, who also goes by the name Paul Jones, was caught after police saw his car speeding along a residential street and decided to follow it. The 50-year-old was found to be in possession of cash and cannabis and a search of the house he shared with his long-term partner uncovered more than a kilo of the drug.

Benjamin Metcalfe

Metcalfe was visiting Wales for work when he ran after a teenage girl and sexually assaulted her in a dark alleyway. At dusk on December 2, 2019, he was in Milford Haven in his works van about to get petrol when he saw a 16-year-old girl pass by. When she passed the forecourt of the garage he ran after her for several hundred yards before following her into a dark alleyway.

Nihal Abedein

The parents of a Swansea University student are "devastated" after he was locked up for running a high-value drug network. Abedein, 18, was studying to be an accountant when he started dealing Class A drugs. He was handling a county line in Swansea, purchasing thousands of pounds' worth of illegal substances and selling them to vulnerable users.

Joseph D'Agnilli

The company director who sexually assaulted three young children has been described as "an abuser hiding in plain sight". The 71-year-old, of Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, sexually abused one child in the 1980s and assaulted his other two victims within the last decade.

Kevin Hooton and Brian Barnes

A heroin and crack dealer who supposedly had an "almost Biblical" drive to change his wicked ways was seen selling drugs on the streets of Swansea just 18 days after being released from prison. In February 2018 Kevin Hooton was jailed for a total of six years and eight months for a string of offending in Swansea and in his native Liverpool. He was released on licence from that sentence on January 19, 2021, but within days was back to his old ways.

Hooton was found to have teamed up with fellow Liverpudlian Brian Barnes after his release from prison and together they were running a drugs telephone for a Merseyside gang. Together they were responsible for a county lines drugs number known to users in Swansea as the "Scouse Jay" line. Read more here.

Gareth Harris

The father has been jailed after his brother found out about his "addiction" to indecent images. Harris, 40, had more than 50,000 sick images of children aged between three and 15. One involved a dog and an eight-year-old child.

Kyle Protheroe

The binman was jailed after attacking his ex-partner, stalking her, and brutally beating up her friend in a series of jealous rages. Protheroe, of Port Road in Rhoose, assaulted his former girlfriend Rachel Jones with a phone before embarking on a terrifying campaign of stalking which left her and her daughter traumatised. When he saw Ms Jones with a male friend he rained down punches and kicks on the man's head and body leaving him needing hospital treatment.

Jordan Merli-Hampton

The former theology student beat up and sexually assaulted a woman after boozing and taking drugs. As the woman struggled to free herself the attacker told her: "Be quiet or I'll end your life." Sending Jordan Merli-Hampton to prison a judge told him he had let his children down.

Richard Taylor

The "devoted family man" and charity fundraiser has been jailed for the rape and sexual abuse of a girl he carried out in the 1980s. Taylor was a teenager when he subjected his young victim to a series of sexual assaults. Swansea Crown Court heard the abuse had a devastating effect on the girl's life while Taylor effectively put the offending behind him and went on to lead a "very decent, productive, even admirable life".

Nathaniel Desforges

The homeless drug dealer led police to discovering a cocaine conspiracy he spearheaded after they saw him living in his car. Desforges, 29, was the leader of a drug-dealing operation based in Bridgend which saw him recruit drug users who owed him money to sell Class A substances at his instruction.

Kenneth Kesans

He subjected a young girl to a string of sickening sexual assaults and then rang police almost two decades later to report what he had done. Kesans, who also goes by the name Kenneth Rowles, told officers he needed to "come clean" about what he had done in his past. Swansea Crown Court heard the abuse he subjected his victim to in the early 2000s has had a devastating effect on her life.

Abideni Tajudeen Adegbite

The fraudster used fake Nigerian passports to take out mobile phone contracts at 02 stores across south Wales worth thousands of pounds. Adegbite, 54, attended phone shops in Newport, Chepstow, and Bridgend after travelling from his home in London with fraudulent ID documents which he used to take contracts out on a number of iPhones and Apple Watches.

Qasim Rasul

The creeper burglar who stole a Ford Mustang car was caught thanks to a barking dog and some dogged detective work by the vehicle's owners. Rasul and another thief were seen quietly pushing the car down the road in the early hours of the morning after breaking into the victim's house. The 42-year-old was out of prison on licence at the time of the incident following a previous conviction for burglary – when he had broken into the home of an 89-year-old woman – and has now clocked up 100 criminal offences.

John Fury

He set fire to a property he had been staying in and was arrested after being spotted coming back to film the blaze. Fury was spotted using a mobile phone by a neighbour at Millfield Close in Cardiff in the early hours of August 21, 2021, and heard to be suggesting one of the flats in the property would be "going up in a minute". A short time later smoke could be seen coming from one of the properties in the two-storey block of six flats.

Mark Lenthall

The convicted paedophile travelled 250 miles to Wales with the intention of meeting up with a child for sex. Lenthall, 53, travelled from his home in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, to Caerphilly in order to meet up with who he thought was a child. But he had been speaking to a decoy and was intercepted by detectives from Tarian who conducted an intelligence-led operation to catch the sex offender.

Daniel Bryant

A police officer who found himself "outnumbered" as he tried to arrest the aggressive banned driver had to draw his Taser stun gun. Bryant, who has never passed a driving test, was spotted at the wheel of a car by plain-clothes policemen who recognised him. Just months earlier the 31-year-old defendant had been handed a suspended prison sentence and banned from the road for dangerous driving. Sending Bryant to prison a judge told him it seemed he didn't think orders of the court applied to him.

Carlton Blackwell

The relentless lifelong burglar is back behind bars for breaking into yet another house. Blackwell sneaked into his victims' house in the dead of night as they slept upstairs and stole their car, which was found a week later trashed and dumped in a field. As well as 17 previous house burglaries on his record the defendant has a conviction for armed robbery – an offence which saw him and two accomplices raiding a bookmakers and terrorising the female staff with a imitation double-barrel sawn-off shotgun. Read about his long list of convictions here.

Liam Williams

He attempted to headbutt a police officer after illegally attending his ex-partner's home and falling into a drunken stupor on her sofa. Williams, 23, was made subject to a restraining order preventing him from contacting his ex-partner Danielle Lynley after he assaulted her and strangled her.

Ethan Ernest

The cocaine dealer was found with £18,000 when police searched his home after he was found with drugs when pulled over for drink-driving. Ernest attempted to escape from police in Cardiff when his Peugeot 308 sped through a red light.

The 28-year-old drove through the streets of Cardiff Bay until he drove into a dead end which caused him to jump out of the car and attempt to run away. He was spotted by an officer after his head popped up above a bush.

Bobby Taylor

He "forcefully" shoved a woman he had just met down concrete steps leaving her with serious facial injuries. Taylor and his victim had only met a short time before the assault and were sat together talking on the seafront steps outside Swansea Civic Centre. After pushing the woman down the steps – a fall which left her with a broken jaw and knocked three of her teeth out – the defendant fled the scene but was identified after witnesses were able to describe his distinctive tattoos.

Gavin Bennett

He was jailed after kicking and stamping on another man nine times in a village car park. Bennett was caught on CCTV exchanging punches with a man in Southend Terrace, Pontlottyn, Caerphilly, before flooring him and aiming a series of blows at his head. Bennett took off his shoe and used it to strike his victim repeatedly.

Damien Winnett

The former plasterer turned to working for a drug gang and delivering huge quantities of cocaine from Liverpool to Wales. Winnett, of Blaen-Blodau Street in Newbridge, was living with his parents while bringing tens of thousands of pounds worth of cocaine to Cardiff.

Matthew Benjamin

The builder was jailed after setting fire to a family's garage and taking a crowbar to their BMW. Benjamin, from Shirenewton near Chepstow, said he wanted to take revenge over a stolen tractor when he drove to a house belonging to a family who were once his friends. He embarked on a rampage which cost the Miller family more than £1,000.

John Kenny

The manipulative and evil paedophile whose sexual abuse of young girls spanned more than 25 years insulted his victims by refusing to leave his cell when being sentenced. The 73-year-old, of Bridgend, showed no remorse after being convicted of rape and a number of sexual and indecent assaults in which he subjected underage girls to degrading abuse and a feeling of hopelessness that no-one would believe them. Read more here.

'Avengers' cocaine gang

More than £1.8m worth of cocaine was trafficked into Swansea in just five months by a criminal gang communicating over the secure EncroChat phone network. It is estimated some 42kg of the Class A drug were transported to south Wales for onward supply to local dealers and users. The operation was uncovered after Dutch and French law enforcement agencies were able to get access to the encrypted phone network which criminals had previously thought to be unbreakable. Read more here.

Curtis Hooper

The prisoner armed with an improvised blade punched a prison officer who was trying to break up a fight. Hooper, 23, who was already serving a prison sentence for drug offences at HMP Parc prison in Bridgend, was fighting with another inmate in the exercise yard of the prison.

Brandon Miles and Andrew Potter

A teenage member of a Birmingham-based organised crime group was being driven back and forth to Swansea by local users. Mustafa Rummi was just 17 when he used local couriers to transport heroin and cocaine to south Wales from the West Midlands. The teenager avoided immediate custody when the case came to court but his two drivers – Miles and Potter – were sent down.

Jason Bayley

A judge has issued a warning that people who carry knives in public will be sent to prison after jailing a man for "scaring" his neighbour with a blade. Jason Bayley was one of a number of men involved in a street disturbance in the middle of Morriston before retreating to his flat and arming himself. Swansea Crown Court heard the 43-year-old has a long history of offending involving weapons including knives and an imitation firearm.

'Prada' gang

The four gang members were jailed after selling almost £6m worth of drugs including cocaine bricks stamped Prada. Vikram Virdee, Dean Riley, and Richard Yarker were the key players in a group selling huge quantities of Class A substances while Karl McQuillan delivered the drugs and collected cash from locations including Wales, Gloucestershire, and Nottingham.

Frank Barton

He lost his temper after having to wait for his prescription in a pharmacy and went outside and punched a passerby in the face while holding a bunch of keys, splitting the man's lip and knocking out a tooth. An irate Barton was restrained by staff as he threatened to "finish off" the stranger he had attacked. The defendant later told police he had anger issues and hadn't taken his medication.

Andrew Vowles

A mother-of-four was killed when the drug-driver smashed his car through metal barriers at the side of a road causing the car to spin through the air and hit trees as it fell down a seven-metre bank side. Danielle Andrews was the front-seat passenger in a VW Golf being driven by Vowles when the then 33-year-old ignored a red light as he drove up a slip lane on the A470 at the Coryton interchange in the early hours of November 28, 2020.

David Turner

The rapist's victim thought she was going to die when he broke into her home and lay in wait before fracturing her cheekbone and strangling her. Turner, 41, from Cardiff, carried out a "forceful and premeditated" assault on his victim whom he also raped while under the influence of cocaine and alcohol, causing her pain and humiliation. The victim sustained injuries to her face after Turner hit her and strangled her after entering her home through a window and waiting until she returned to her house.

Avril and Ryan Niner

The mother joined her son in dealing cocaine after "hard men" came knocking on their door demanding payments of debts he had run up through his addiction. Ryan had become addicted to the Class A drug while in prison and upon his release his use of cocaine spiralled along with his debts. He began dealing cocaine to pay off what he owed and his mother joined him in the venture. Together the pair dealt drugs for 16 months before the police caught up with them.

Gregory Gair

The obsessive man threatened to a kill a woman he went out on one date with and told her he was going to "rip her heart out". Gair, 36, of Newport, harassed his victim by sending incessant messages over the course of a year and attempted to disguise his voice with a Northern Irish accent while threatening to rip her heart out. The fantasist even posted on his Facebook account that he and the woman, who only met for one date, were in a relationship and when she blocked him and refused to answer his calls he threatened to kill himself, telling her: "My life is in your hands".

Alexander Hill, Kieran Hill, Shaun Wood

The three thugs who effectively held a vulnerable man captive in a flat and subjected him to a brutal beating found his ordeal "amusing". The victim was repeatedly punched and kicked – suffering a broken jaw and a broken eye socket – because he had sent the girlfriend of one of his attackers a series of flirtatious messages. He was then bullied and threatened into blaming an innocent man for the assault. Read their sentence here.

Tyler Richards

The prisoner threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend and "put a bullet" in the head of her "new man". Richards, who is serving an eight-year jail term for wounding, made four vile calls from HM Prison Parc in Bridgend. He told the mother of his children he would "beat the life" out of her.

Jay Parry

He picked up a coffee cup and smashed into his victim's face after being told to stop arguing with his girlfriend. The victim has been left with a misshapen nose and now faces the prospect of having surgery to break the bone and reset it. Swansea Crown Court heard Parry has a long history of offending – including convictions for 17 burglaries – and hds recently completed an anger management course while in prison.

David Nicholls

His former partner needed stitches after he threw a can at her face. Nicholls, 29, breached a restraining order for the fourth time when he attacked his ex as she walked home from a shop in Cardiff. The woman had heard someone shouting 50m behind her. She turned to see Nicholls "berating" her and "mumbling incoherently", prosecutor Peter Donnison told Cardiff Crown Court.

Cory Slade

The thug spat at police officers as they arrested him for posting intimate photos of a naked woman on social media. Slade, 29, made his victim feel "disgusted and degraded" by the photos which were posted on the defendant's Snapchat and WhatsApp accounts.

Bashir Ali

The Londoner caught red-handed in Swansea with deals of crack cocaine and hundreds of pounds hidden in his trousers claimed he was in the Welsh city for a holiday. Plain-clothes police officers conducting undercover anti-drugs patrols swooped on the 21-year-old as he left a block of flats on a residential street. While Ali said he was merely enjoying a break in the seaside city an examination of his phone showed there had been more than 300 calls to and from a so-called county lines drug gang number in the days before his arrest.

Lee Jones and Connor Williams

The two drunk thugs launched a vicious and unprovoked assault on an off-duty policeman and his son outside a taxi office. Jones and Williams repeatedly punched and kicked their victims to the head and body even as the men lay defenceless on the ground. Sending the pair down a judge described the late-night events as "gratuitous violence".

Thomas Godfrey

Godfrey rained punches on one woman and sexually assaulted another during an attack at a hotel. He struck his first victim in the face 15 to 20 times before entering the second woman's hotel room, getting in her bed, stroking the top of her thigh, and performing a sex act. Prosecutor Lowri Wynn Morgan said the sexual assault victim had eaten a Chinese takeaway before going to bed in her hotel room where there was some leftover food. The door was closed but unlocked.

Rhys Stone

He locked a teenage girl in a car before carrying out a terrifying sexual attack just hours after meeting her online. The 21-year-old first began chatting with his victim via a live-streaming app and came across to the girl and her friends as "pleasant" and offered to take them to out in his car. However the girl had no idea that Stone was a convicted sex offender – and hours later would be subjected to a terrifying ordeal.

Aaron Diplock

The dealer was introduced to cocaine by friends after he was forced out of the Army through injury and advertised his wares on Snapchat. When Diplock's home was searched officers found £7,000-worth of high-purity cocaine hidden in his cooker. Police also found messages on his phone where he discussed preparing the drug for sale and a Snapchat story where he promoted the product.

Jamie Jones

Car thieves driving around Swansea in a stolen car passed an Amazon van and stopped to steal it, a court heard. Earlier that afternoon Jones and his unidentified accomplice had stolen the car they were in from a mum and her children while they were in a supermarket. When the pair spotted a delivery van parked at the side the road they decided to stop steal it – but hadn't accounted for the delivery driver being a former soldier.

Nathan Price and Nathan Price

The father and son targeted a vulnerable woman and drove her to a bank to withdraw money for a garden job at her home which wasn't required. Nathan Price and his son, also called Nathan Price, preyed on 87-year-old Linda Broad as she lived alone at her flat in Swansea. Price senior appeared in her garden telling her that a tree in her garden needed to be felled and falsely claiming that Swansea Council was going to pay for the majority of the work but she would have to pay the balance of £1,600.

Simon Dove

The paedophile who went on the run to the Costa del Sol and was tracked down to a Spanish prison was given an extended sentence as a dangerous sex offender. After being brought back to Wales Dove was given a suspended sentence and made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order designed to control his online behaviour – but just weeks later he bought a laptop and started downloading images of child sex abuse and installing software designed to hide his activities.

Ryan Owen

The teenager punched a woman in the face at a party and broke her jaw in an unprovoked attack that left her needing an operation. Owen's victim had given him a lift to the house party in her car but he later lashed out at her. The woman needed surgery to fit a metal plate and screws to her jaw to repair the damage and missed her son's birthday because she was in hospital.

Lucien Marshall

The teenager robbed a taxi driver after being picked up from an all-night party which breached coronavirus restrictions. Marshall, 19, was in a taxi along with Joshua Saunders, 22, at around 6.30am on the morning of April 11, 2021. The driver picked them both up from Cromwell Road in Newport after they had attended a gathering.

Damien Davies

The man with a long history of beating and abusing partners subjected his girlfriend to a "horrendous ordeal" in her own home. Davies throttled and beat the woman before throwing her to the floor and forcing her face into the doormat with his foot. He has eight previous convictions for offences relating to partners or former partners including numerous assaults, false imprisonment, and disclosing private sexual photographs. A judge said he had no doubt Davies was a dangerous offender and if he had the power to do so he would make him subject of an extended sentence.

Jamie Smith

He used an old taxi to drive around the streets of Swansea selling cocaine. Smith purchased the vehicle, which was still emblazoned with stickers of a well-known city cab service, and dealt the Class A drug to street users.

Joshua Jones

A man was stabbed with a machete in the middle of a busy town centre in a vicious attack which left him needing surgery and stitches. Jones' victim Luke Phillips was out shopping with his family in Cwmbran when he was slashed in the leg with a large knife in front of several onlookers sustaining blood loss and injuries which required surgery and stitches.

Liam Pattison

He covered his face with his hands as he was jailed for defrauding a company involved in TV series Brave New World. Pattison, 34, only did a week of work for 4Wood TV and Film – which built film sets in south Wales – but for the next seven months he sent the business invoices for payments totalling £36,000. 4Wood, which worked on Sky's Brave New World show starring Demi Moore, was conned out of £33,120 before it realised the scam, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

Alex Prosser

He raped a vulnerable 11-year-old girl in his flat after grooming her on Snapchat. When police arrested Prosser they found more than 1,200 films and pictures on his phone showing babies and children being sexually abused. A report into the defendant described him as the "epitome of a predator paedophile". His barrister said the 34-year-old has a deep sense of shame for what he had done – "as he should".

Thomas Faulds

The prisoner laughed as he slashed a fellow inmate and a prison officer across the face with homemade weapons leaving his victims with permanent scars. Faulds, who may never be released, was awaiting sentence for his part in a drugs conspiracy when attacked his cellmate with a knife fashioned from a razor blade. He was then moved to a different Welsh jail where he carried out an identical assault on a prison officer. Swansea Crown Court heard the 26-year-old laughed and sniggered during the bloody attacks and has shown no remorse for his actions since. Imposing a life sentence on the defendant a judge said he didn't know when – if ever – Faulds would no longer pose a danger and could be released into the community.

Stephen Bale

Customers enjoying a family meal in a pub were subjected to racial abuse including monkey noises and calls to "go back to where you came from", a court has heard. Aircraft engineer Bale then pulled a knife on the grandson of the family and threatened to kill him. Sending the 36-year-old father-of-three to prison a judge called his behaviour "disgusting and deplorable".

Paul Walsh

When police raided the drug dealer's house they found he was keeping some of his stash in a camper van. Officers found some £8,000 worth of cannabis at a number of locations inside and outside the property along with cannabis plants and quantities of cocaine and amphetamine. Sending the 48-year-old year to prison a judge described the man standing before her in the dock as "somewhat of a broken individual".

Jayden Heron

The drug dealer found in possession of heroin and crack cocaine tried to prevent police from finding his phone by hiding it in his bed and laying on top of it. A raid was carried out at a house in Cardiff where Heron and Trivelle Taylor were storing Class A drugs they were planning to sell to users.

Michael Casey

He was already in prison for his part in a £500,000 burglary spree and was found in his cell with cannabis and an iPhone just one day after he was transferred from another jail. The 21-year-old had been jailed after more than two years on the run from police. He had been wanted for being part of a family-based organised crime group that carried out a string of break-ins across Swansea, Neath, and Port Talbot in 2018 that saw vast quantities of gold and other jewellery stolen from homes. Read more here.

Michael Turner

He broke into a couple's home and stole handbags and purses before using the stolen money to buy drugs. The 51-year-old broke into a house in Bridgend while the occupants were upstairs. It was only when the couple came downstairs around half an hour later that they realised somebody had broken into their home and stolen their possessions, which also included passports and house keys

Elton Hazizi

A crime gang turned a quiet and unsuspecting semi-detatched home into a huge cannabis factory – with the bumper crop worth more than other houses on the street. Officers raided a house in Highmead Avenue, Llanelli, and found 25-year-old Hazizi inside along with 249 "mature, high-quality" plants worth around £232,400. Hazizi, who is originally from Albania, told officers he had been forced to work in the cannabis farm. Police linked him to an organised crime group involved in the growth and supply of the Class B drug.

Stavro Nace

He left his home country for a better life but ended up working in a cannabis factory and will be deported once he has served a prison sentence. Nace left Albania in the hope of finding a good job to support his struggling parents but ended up in huge debt after forking out almost £22,000 to get to the UK. He was found inside a house in south Wales alongside a massive crop of cannabis thought to be worth an eye-watering six-figure sum

Jason Maddocks

The former soldier left traumatised by his experiences in war zones turned to drug dealing to fund his own spiralling habit. Maddocks was involved in supplying cocaine, ecstasy, and cannabis on the streets of Swansea with some of his stash being kept in a Pringles crisp tube fitted with a false bottom. Swansea Crown Court heard the defendant had served tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq during which he was stabbed while fighting at close quarters as well as being shot. A judge said it was "shameful" that the psychological and physical welfare of people who serve their country is not properly looked after when they are discharged.

Jason Edwards, Dionne Timms-Williams, and Lee Strickland

These are the faces of the heartless killers who brutally murdered Dr Gary Jenkins in a homophobic attack and left him bleeding and unconscious. The three murderers showed no mercy as Dr Jenkins pleaded for his life.

Edwards, 26, Strickland, 36, and Timms-Williams, 17, were found guilty of murder and showed the "worst traits of humankind" when they savagely beat and kicked father Dr Jenkins to death in Bute Park, Cardiff, on July 20, 2021. Despite the consultant psychiatrist's pleas for help the three defendants continued their vicious assault which left Dr Jenkins with a bleeding on the brain and multiple fractures among other injuries. He later died as a result of his injuries in hospital on August 5.

David Maggs

The pensioner who brutally murdered his wife in her own bed is now behind bars for at least two decades. Maggs stabbed his 74-year-old wife Linda Maggs 15 times at their home in Sebastopol, Pontypool, a month before divorce proceedings were finalised. She suffered horrific injuries to her neck, chest, stomach, and arms in the brutal attack. The most significant blow was an injury to her chest described as a 15.5cm stab wound.

Maggs had been with his wife for 28 years before their relationship broke down in 2020 and the pair were sleeping in separate bedrooms. Jurors were told that after the attack Maggs, 71, rang 999 saying: "I’ve just killed the wife". And when police arrived at the couple's semi-detached home in Lansdowne, Sebastopol the defendant was said to have told an officer: "I’ve just had enough. She tried to steal two houses from me, two houses." Read how son stares Maggs down.

Lee Whitlock

The killer shattered his neighbour's skull with a hammer in a brutal attack in the victim's own home. The 53-year-old murdered Robert Farley, known as Bobby, at his Barry flat and later led police to the scene after claiming he was concerned about his friend. When police arrived at the West Walk flat they discovered Mr Farley's body and he appeared to be severely injured. They later established that he was dead. Whitlock, also of West Walk, initially denied killing Mr Farley, 61, but pleaded guilty to murder on the first day of his trial at Newport Crown Court.

Meirion Roberts

The driver killed his close friend and work colleague after drinking several pints of alcohol and racing at speeds of up to 100mph. Roberts was driving his white Vauxhall Corsa through a Carmarthenshire village on the evening of evening of December 4, 2020, when he lost control and slammed into a telegraph pole and then a wall before flipping the car onto its roof.

The passenger in the car, 20-year Lewis Morgan from Carmarthen, suffered severe head trauma in the crash and died at the scene. Roberts was himself injured and taken to hospital and was later arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

David Solecki

He strangled his mother and threatened to kill her and other relatives. His bizarre two-day outburst included making threats to kill his own mother and his sister, strangling his mother during a struggle which lasted four minutes, squeezing his sister's dog while it squealed in pain, and assaulting officers who arrived to arrest him.

Roland Long

The rapist chased his terrified and lost victim then shoved her to the ground and told her: "No-one says no to me" before subjecting her to a violent 10-minute sex attack. Roland Long, who was finally punished for the offence more than 40 years on due to advances in DNA technology, was revealed to be a serial sex abuser and paedophile when he was sentenced.

The pensioner was handed a 12-year extended sentence for the brutal attack in Cardiff which left his victim fearing for her life and thinking about the Yorkshire Ripper killings with the man responsible then still at large. Long, 67 and from Nailsea, North Somerset, carried out the August 1980 attack on a woman in her late 20s as she was walking home after a day out with her family. Read here how justice caught up with Long after 40 years.

Terrence John

The pensioner tried to murder his former partner as she lay in bed by stabbing her in the face and chest with a kitchen knife. Despite her injuries John's victim managed to fight him off and fled to a neighbouring flat wearing nothing but a towel. When police and paramedics arrived they found 70-year-old John face down in a pool of blood in the property having tried to take his own life.

Kayleigh Hardy

She brutally attacked a pensioner in broad daylight as she tried to make her way past with her shopping cart, inflicting headbutts and punches which left her with black eyes. Hardy attacked 65-year-old Jenny Williams in broad daylight in the area of Heathfield and Carlton Terrace in the Mount Pleasant area of Swansea. Completely unprovoked, Hardy then approached Mrs Williams and headbutted her twice to the forehead.

Kevin Holt

He stabbed his friend in the stomach with a kitchen knife during a Christmas Day argument.. Witnesses at the festive party later reported how they saw the victim with a piece of his intestines hanging out of the wound in the aftermath of the attack. Holt fled the scene but was arrested the following day and told officers he could not believe his friend had "grassed him up".

Nathaniel Williams

He stabbed his partner in the backside in a row over which pizza takeaway to order food from. Williams got into an argument with his partner of four years at their home in Adamsdown in Cardiff. Cardiff Crown Court heard how, after entertaining friends, Williams and his partner wanted to get some food before and an argument erupted over which pizza takeaway to order. She wanted Pizza Choice and Williams wanted Pizza Hut.

Bradley Dhlamin

The visiting drug dealer was operating from a busy Swansea city centre hotel and paying for the room with cash on a day-to-day basis. Swansea Crown Court heard the technique was popular with county lines gangs based in cities such as London and Liverpool as it allowed dealers and couriers to be flexible in coming and going from the target towns where they were working.

Elliott Fiteni

He was cleared of the murder of Newport dad Ryan O'Connor but stole an Amazon delivery van and swiped alcohol from a supermarket. Earlier in the month Fiteni was found not guilty of the murder of 26-year-old Mr O'Connor – you can read more about that case here.

But he was called back to court for a string of offences dating back to 2019. The court heard how the 20-year-old drove off in an Amazon van on August 27, 2019, and ended up in a police chase before ditching the vehicle and hiding from officers. Two months later he then stole £480 of alcohol from a Tesco store.

Clinton Simms

The cannabis dealer's life turned to tragedy after his father was brutally murdered. Simms, 21, was seen acting suspiciously by police in Cardiff on January 16 and when he was apprehended he was found in possession cannabis.

In mitigation defence barrister Hashim Salmman said his client's life had been blighted by "challenge and tragedy". In 2016 Simms' father Clint Simms was stabbed in the chest and died as a result of his injuries. Mr Simms' murderer Stephen Pike was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 20 years.

Dean Pile

The cycling crack dealer was caught red-handed after police saw him trying to sell drugs to an intoxicated man on the street. A search of Pile's house revealed a supply of cocaine along with £4,000 in cash and a stash of amphetamine in the freezer. Swansea Crown Court heard it was the second time Pile had been caught dealing cocaine.

Marcus Williams

The "dangerous" offender tried to rob a man at knifepoint in the kitchen of a shared accommodation building. Williams, 30, wielded a knife during an attempted robbery for a paltry amount of money at the Wallich Riverside Project in Clare Street, Cardiff. The defendant had a string of previous offences to his name including robbing his own grandfather while he slept in 2015 and inflicting grievous bodily harm to a family member's partner in 2017.

Daniel Smith

The heroin dealer seen by p,olice carrying out a deal from his car claimed he was only selling cigarettes. Officers swooped on the parked car after seeing the driver carrying out a "transaction" with a man leaning through the open window. When officers searched the vehicle they found wraps of heroin hidden under Smith's seat and a subsequent search of his house found a further stash of heroin along with scales showing traces of brown powder.

Greg Lemon and Gemma Owen

The couple kicked, punched and butted a woman outside their flat leaving her bruised and battered and missing two teeth. Lemon and Owen claimed they had been acting in self-defence after their victim had turned up at their Port Talbot home uninvited. Lemon has a long history of violent offending including two convictions for inflicting grievous bodily harm and three for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Julian Davies

The builder came "flying" towards his partner and savagely attacked her in view of their children. Davies headbutted, kicked, punched, and verbally abused the mother of his three children during a booze-fuelled rage.

Andrew Quick

He plunged a knife into his partner's breast as he repeatedly stabbed her in a drunken jealous rage. Quick lashed out after accusing his long-term partner of sneaking another man into her house. After attacking the woman the defendant fled from the property and rang for paramedics and police saying he had stabbed the woman "all over" before he returned to the house to apologise. The 48-year-old later told officers that what had happened was not the victim's fault but "it was her fault that he was so angry".

Joseph Curley

The burglar had a "bingo moment" when he broke into a man's house and found thousands of pounds under a mattress. Curley has 128 offences on his record including 41 burglaries. The 49-year-old appeared at Cardiff Crown Court after using a hammer to smash the back door of a home in Fields Park Road, Newport, while the owner was out. Curley raided the house on March 7, 2020, taking £3,000 in cash from a wallet underneath the owner's mattress as well as a tub containing £300 in £1 coins.

Reece Jimoh, Lianne Jenkins, and Adam Lomax

The Liverpudlian drug dealers were caught red-handed in Swansea with more than 800 heroin and crack cocaine deals ready to be supplied to users on the street. They were arrested by officers investigating a Merseyside-organised crime group. Both dealers have been locked up as well as the vulnerable Swansea woman who allowed her house to be used as a base for their Class A drug dealing.

Darren Smith

An argument over face masks in a petrol station culminated in Smith crashing his car into another customer. The 47-year-old drove his Volkswagen Polo at speed into Stephen Callaghan at the Morrisons filling station in Caerphilly. Moments earlier Smith had headbutted the victim, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

The confrontation started after Mr Callaghan had arrived at Morrisons following a shopping trip. His two grandchildren were in the car with him. Mr Callaghan entered the petrol station and found himself behind Smith. Judge Daniel Williams said Mr Callaghan was wearing a Covid mask exemption card, and the defendant "took exception" to him not wearing a mask.

Jamie Lewis

He held a kitchen knife to his aunt's throat after a Christmas Day vodka and Valium binge. Lewis had only been released from police custody a matter of hours earlier and his aunt had taken him in as he had nowhere else to go.

After being arrested for assaulting his relative the 38-year-old then kicked and spat at police officers who tried to help him and he had to be placed in leg restraints and a spit hood. The defendant's advocate told Swansea Crown Court that he had represented Lewis on many previous occasions and that when not under the influence of drink and drugs he was perfectly polite.

Rhys Shearan

The young dad with a cannabis and cocaine habit turned to dealing drugs to fund his addiction. Shearan was 21 when he was caught with "drug paraphernalia" in his house along with a phone containing bulk text messages advertising drugs which he had been sending to dozens of potential customers.

Swansea Crown Court heard that in the more than two and a half years since his arrest the defendant had become drug-free, moved to a different area, and established contact with his children.

Drugs gang

The seven have been put behind bars for a total of more than 64 years for their part in a plot to flood a town with heroin and crack cocaine worth £745,000. NorthWalesLive reported how some of the 19 conspirators bought the drugs in Liverpool and then brought them back to their organised crime group in Caia Park in Wrexham. But police using covert surveillance cameras launched Operation Lancelot to catch the plotters for a crime which could wreak "misery" on north Wales communities.

Brian Richards

The disqualified driver crashed twice in the space of two months – both times while over the alcohol limit. Roofer Richards flipped his car on Boxing Day then, a matter of weeks later, slammed his van into a tree after crashing over a roundabout. The 49-year-old has a history of driving while banned and a judge asked how the courts could deter those who persistently took to the roads in breach of the will of the courts when the maximum sentence that could be imposed after a guilty plea was four months.

Perrie Dunwell

The convicted killer was involved in supplying amphetamine and was discovered after police found the drugs in his car. Dunwell, 34, was sentenced to 13 years and nine months imprisonment in 2021 after being found guilty of the manslaughter and conspiracy to rob Shafiul Islam. The 22-year-old victim was found bloodstained in the cupboard of his Newport flat and died six days later in hospital having been struck to the head three times with a glass Kopparberg bottle. Dunwell's co-defendant Euan Peters, 42, was found guilty of murder and jailed for life with a minimum of 33 years, and Conlan Dunnion, 23, who was found guilty of manslaughter and conspiracy to rob, was sentenced to nine years and six months imprisonment. But before the fatal attack on Mr Islam in November 2019 Dunwell had been arrested on suspicion of supplying amphetamine after his Volkwagen Sirocco was pulled over on the M4 on June 3, 2019.

Selim Hoxha

A judge has said police would be failing in their public duty if they did not properly investigate the international criminal gangs responsible for running cannabis farms in Wales. The judge spoke out as he sentenced an Albanian man caught working as a so-called gardener in a Swansea Valley house which had been given over to the production of the drug. Judge Geraint Walters said it "should not be beyond the wit of man" for detectives to find out who was higher up the chain of command and to go after them but in the experience of the courts it seemed police regarded catching a low-level gardener as "case closed". Read more here.

Stephen Mulcahy

The out-of-work cook intentionally started eight fires in a shop under people's homes and caused "carnage" at a train station. Mulcahy, of Erw Hir in Bridgend, set alight the Amplifon hearing aid shop in Swansea leaving residents of the 10 flats above choking on smoke. On another morning the 42-year-old went on a rampage of damaging equipment at Bridgend railway station. Cutting cables and ripping wires, he caused "nothing short of havoc".

Alan Jenkins

A man was left with a dislocated jaw which required permanent metal plates fitted after being repeatedly punched in the face by neighbour Jenkins. The 59-year-old assaulted Stephen Perkins at his Cardiff home in a vicious attack which saw him kicked and punched to the head at least 25 times. The victim sustained serious injuries included fractured eye sockets and a dislocated jaw which required metal plates.

Dominic Oliver

He took street drugs in an attempt to ease tooth pain and ended up carrying out a burglary at a home. Oliver gained access to a property in Colby Road, Burry Port, and once inside he attempted to remove copper piping. The home belongs to Douglas Clark, a retired 72-year-old, who had been leasing the property. It was unoccupied at the time as the tenant of the property at the time had been in custody.

Lincoln Parkes

He throttled his partner with a dog lead, repeatedly punched her, and kicked her in the face during a prolonged assault in their home. As Parkes choked the woman with the lead he told her he wanted to see her soil herself - something a judge described as "gratuitous degradation" of his victim. The 60-year-old defendant has a previous conviction for inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent on the same partner as well as convictions for assaulting a taxi driver and beating a colleague with a spanner.

Craig Scott

The labourer who worked on the Grenfell Tower project and had a history of violence smashed a glass over a man's he,ad. Scott, 35, had been made subject to a community order just days before assaulting Jordan Batten in Cardiff. He left his victim permanently scarred after hitting him in the head with a Pyrex glass after retaliating to a minor incident.

James Cook

The father-to-be will miss the birth of his child after being caught red-handed with wraps of cocaine, almost £800 in cash, and a phone full of incriminating messages. Cook travelled from his home in Ammanford to Swansea to peddle the Class A drug but was collared by undercover police.

Joshua Aspell

A Newport drug gang took over a vulnerable woman's flat in Llanelli to use as a base for peddling crack cocaine and heroin. When police raided the property they found Aspell and Michael Brace along with a stash of Class A drugs, cash, phones, and drugs paraphernalia.

The defendants were part of a Newport-based county lines drugs operation which was exploiting the woman, herself a drug user, and using her home to peddle drugs in a technique known as "cuckooing". Read more here.

Paul Davies

The cocaine-dealing father-of-three was caught after trying to hide his face from passing police officers. Police found Davies had a stash of cocaine and Valium along with £1,145 in cash – though the defendant maintains most of that money was from the sale of a car. A judge said he could not understand how people with responsibility for children could engage in the "serious criminality" of supplying Class A drugs knowing that if caught they would face a lengthy prison sentence and miss years of their kids' lives.

Owain Coleman

The thug armed with a pair of scissors robbed a terrified shop worker just days after being released on licence from prison following previous robberies. The victim had been so traumatised by the experience that she suffered panic attacks and was no longer able to work on the tills, the court heard. The robbery was the culmination of a four-day spree of offending by 23-year-old Coleman which saw him smashing up cars, shoplifting, and making threats to firebomb his accommodation.

John Bullingham

The paedophile attempted to meet a fictitious young girl and made threats to someone he thought was an 11-year-old girl. Bullingham was caught with indecent images of children by police and he was released pending further investigation. But in the meantime Swansea Crown Court heard how Bullingham, of Bowen Street in Neath, sexually communicated online with people he thought were young girls. During the exchanges he encouraged lewd behaviour, attempted to arrange to meet another, and made threats to a third.

Malcolm Crane

The convicted paedophile was caught with two mobile phones despite being banned from owning the devices. Crane had been convicted at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court in May 2019 for offences of attempting to incite a child under the age of 13 to engage in a sexual act and attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child. As part of his sentence he received a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years and was advised of notification requirements which included telling police of any change in address.

James Ricketts

He was found walking a Cardiff street with a bag of white spirit and a lighter and was on his way to set fire to his cousin's house when he was arrested by police. Ricketts was in the Ely area of the city when he phoned police from a telephone box and told them he had been the victim of a robbery and that he was being followed.

Colin Williams

The former soldier hit a teenager while driving and left him bleeding in the road before a 'good Samaritan' doctor stopped and helped save the boy. Williams was driving his Volkswagen in Barry's A4050 Port Road East shortly before 4am on December 5, 2020, when he struck Cem Ziyaeddin and fled. He later returned to the scene to find the 16-year-old victim being treated by the passing Dr Benjamin Roper but Williams tried to hide his crime before police arrested him days later, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

Abdul Rouf

He stabbed a visitor to a takeaway restaurant who jumped in to defuse a confrontation with the business owner. The victim was stabbed in the hip and the chest after Rouf had gone to Halima Tandoori in Cwmafan in Port Talbot to speak with owner Zakir Hussain, who was involved in civil proceedings with Rouf's brother-in-law, in a bid to remove his name from the business' lease.

Lee McKinnon

He broke into a neighbour's flat while he was sleeping and beat him about the head with a dumbbell. McKinnon later told police he had gained entry to the downstairs property in the early hours of the morning by smashing a window and that he had wanted to kill his neighbour. Swansea Crown Court heard McKinnon had long-standing mental health issues and at the time of the brutal assault was likely experiencing auditory hallucinations and feelings of paranoia.

Dean Price

A taxi driver who unwittingly acted as a getaway driver following a burglary on a student house returned the victim's laptop after the burglar made off from his cab without paying the fare. An intoxicated Price broke into the shared student house in the dead of night and stole a computer containing course work along with a number of "designer jumpers" while his victim was out.

Joseph Jeremy, Lewis Aquilina and Kyle Raisis

Three men responsible for killing Newport dad Ryan O'Connor will spend a long portion of their lives behind bars. Jeremy, 18, and Aquilina, 20, were both handed life sentences with double-digit minimum terms – 24 and 22 years respectively – for the murder of Mr O'Connor. The pair will be in their 40s before they will be considered for release from prison on licence but a judge has warned them it's possible that they may never become free men again for what he called their "vicious and cowardly attack".

Their accomplice Kyle Raisis, 18, who was convicted of manslaughter, was also jailed for his involvement in the crime. You can read our full coverage of the case here on our dedicated live blog.

Russell Marsh

The remorseless husband who murdered his wife will spend at least the next 25 years behind bars. The 29-year-old was estranged from his wife when he snuck into Jade Ward's home in north Wales before stabbing and strangling her. A court heard 27-year-old Ms Ward had been "moving on with her life" after splitting from Marsh.

After carrying out his horrific attack Marsh then hid the mum-of-four's body under a pile of clothes for the police to find at her home in Shotton, Flintshire. Judge Rhys Rowlands slammed Marsh for carrying out a "savage and merciless attack" simply because his estranged wife wanted to move on. Her brave family applauded as the judge jailed Marsh for life with a minimum of 25 years. You can read more on that story here.

Martin Newman

The killer van driver was responsible for a fatal M4 crash that saw two young siblings lose their lives while their loving mother was badly hurt. The 41-year-old had been seen weaving across the motorway in the run-up to the crash which claimed the lives of four-year-old Gracie-Ann Lucas and three-year-old Jayden-Lee Lucas, who were both also known by the surname Wheaton. At a sentencing hearing painter and decorator Newman – who admitted two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, one of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, and charges of drink-driving and drug-driving – was jailed for nine years and four months.

Matthew Clemo

The drink-driver killed a grandfather after his van struck the victim's bike but he was so intoxicated he carried on driving. The killer was more than twice the legal drink-drive limit after consuming vodka and cider.

Clemo, 51, killed 76-year-old Michael Partridge following a collision in Bedwas, Caerphilly. Mr Partridge died at the scene as a result of his injuries after being crushed between the van and a parked car.

Andrew Simson

He strangled his wife with the cord from his dressing gown after he had drunk two bottles of wine. The 52-year-old was at home with his wife in a flat they shared in Wyllie, near Blackwood, on the afternoon of November 13, 2021. This was only five days after a community order had expired which prohibited him from contacting his wife – something which was put in place due to a previous assault.

Michael Patrick

The paedophile sexually abused a young girl in the 1980s but remained undetected for decades until his victim alerted the police. The victim said the abuse had "destroyed her innocence".

Patrick, 62, of Caerphilly, carried out assaults in his 20s when his victim was under the age of 14 years old. In the intervening years the defendant, who was described as "childlike", was said to have lived an "isolated life".

Kayne O'Dare

He repeatedly assaulted the mother of his child and controlled her life over the course of almost a year. The 26-year-old started a relationship with Ravel Roxanne Grimbly in 2018.

However between September 22, 2020, and August 22, 2021, when the couple lived at a property in the St Mellons area of Cardiff, O’Dare's behaviour changed and he became violent and controlling towards his partner. He repeatedly assaulted his victim and left her with black eyes and at one point a broken arm.

Mathew Lock

The leader of a children's club plied young boys with cider and vodka on camping trips and then raped a teenager. The 44-year-old, of Barry, founded the south Wales-based club but took advantage of his position and access to young boys in order to carry out the rape of his victim. Lock was said to be "immature" and would send members of the club inappropriate texts.

Richard Thompson

He threw a gas bottle and concrete slab through a pensioner's windows and threatened to burn her house down. Thompson fled from the scene but returned later that night and used a wooden fence pole to assault member's of the victim's family who had gone to her aid.

Mark Charlton

The burglar broke into a woman's house on New Year's Eve shortly after calling at her front door with a bogus missing dog story. Charlton, who has a long history of committing offences of dishonesty, took jewellery including a gold necklace and pearl earrings from his victim's house after returning to the property and creeping inside. An accomplice who was with him on the night remains at large.

Ryan Thomas

An elderly man who had just bought some cans of lager from his local shop was robbed by a fellow customer who shoved, threatened, and abused him. Thomas flew into a rage after he asked the 73-year-old for one of his recently-purchased cans of Carling and was told no. After abusing the pensioner the 28-year-old pushed and shoved the man before turning his aggression on staff and members of the public outside the shop in the Afan Valley.

Samuel Morris

The 23-year-old from Swansea was jailed for 11 years for 40 counts of sexual offences against children aged between 11 and 15 years old. Morris, of Heol-yr-Eos, Penllergaer, pleaded guilty to all counts. His offences included inciting children to engage in penetrative activity, inciting sexual activity, and numerous offences of sexual communication with a child. He also pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images of children of categories A, B, and C as well as extreme pornography and prohibited images and to the distribution of indecent images of children online.

Gavin Tainton

He subjected a pensioner to a terrifying home robbery and then threatened a shop worker with a knife after his release from prison. Tainton was jailed in 2015 after bursting into the 88-year-old's home just as she was getting ready for bed. After throwing her to floor he then tied her up with wires and took £15 and some of her jewellery. The disgraced window cleaner was later handed a 14-year sentence for what a judge called a "despicable and cowardly attack". You can read more about that incident here. He started re-offending and in February 2022 burst into Plasmarl shop Premier Slee Stores in Neath Road brandishing a blade and demanding money.

Pierre Williams

He had almost £65,000 worth of drugs in his car in Swansea and was finally caught after fleeing the scene of a police search and going on the run for more than two and a half years. Police officers from South Wales Police, including armed officers, attended an address in Swansea on August 6, 2019, after receiving information that the property was being used for the purposes of county lines drug trafficking. He fled the scene but justice has now finally caught up with him.

Andrew Price

The pervert sexually assaulted an unconscious woman at a hostel after he locked the door and carried out a sickening attack. The victim had no recollection of the assault but it was caught on the hostel's CCTV.

Price, 44, carried out the attack on his victim, who has lifelong anonymity, in the communal living room of a hostel in Cardiff. Two witnesses were present just before the assault and described the victim as "intoxicated" and "tired".

Geraint ap Dewi Rowlands

The convicted male sex offender posed online as a "56-year-old lesbian named Carol" to search the internet for "disturbing" content. In 2017 ap Dewi Rowlands was handed a two-year suspended sentence and banned for 10 years from using any social networking websites or apps without first making the police aware. But the 64-year-old from Cleveland Avenue in Tywyn, Gwynedd, who'd been found guilty of possessing extreme and prohibited pornographic images, was caught using a fake identity in order to look for indecent images of young girls.

Victoria Mutu

She was one of two women who beat up a customer outside a Neath town centre shop in a row over money. Stacey Barnett and Mutu attacked the woman after coming across her in a Spar store with Mutu hitting the victim about the head with a glass bottle. A judge described the town centre incident as an "ugly brawl" which saw the defendants "lose any sense of dignity". Mutu was jailed while Barnett was given a suspended sentence.

Jonathan Walters

The burglar broke into the home of an elderly man while he was in hospital and stole nearly £1,000 worth of golden rings. He gained entry after using a screwdriver to access a safe box containing keys to the house.

Walters, 43, targeted his victim, who was known to him, after he was taken ill and taken to hospital. He took advantage of the situation and burgled the home in Nant-y-moel, Bridgend.

Leon James and Levi White-John

The two young Carmarthenshire drug dealers tried their luck in Swansea but were arrested after just two days. James and White-John booked a room in a city centre hotel and began dealing on the streets but were spotted by undercover police officers. A key found on one of the defendants led police to a Premier Inn room and to a stash of crack cocaine, cannabis, cling film, and cash.

Cassandra Holland

The robber attacked a woman at a bus station and ripped a handbag from her clutches in a vicious assault involving punches to her head. The thief carried out the robbery in order to fund her addiction to crack cocaine. Holland, 29, attacked her victim at the Newport bus depot on the evening of January 27 after hitting the woman to the right side of her head. She then delivered further blows as the victim fell to the floor and shouted: "Give me your bag, just give it to me."

Joshua Mountstephens and Levi Quick

The two men from Cardiff were jailed after admitting a string of drug offences dating back over the course of three years. They were both jailed for a series of drugs offences including with the intent to supply. Read more here.

Ryan Morgan

The driver led police on a 85mph chase in his van before crashing into another car, jumping from the still-moving vehicle, and running off. Morgan was chased on foot and caught and checks showed he had been banned from driving on six previous occasions.

Jack Richards

He carried an imitation handgun through a crowded shopping street sparking a huge armed police response. Richards, 24, left onlookers "petrified" after brandishing the weapon in the middle of Queen Street in Cardiff city centre.

Simon Connors

A father and his two sons barged into a builders' merchants to attack a man after a long and drawn-out feud between families. Ronald, Simon, and Jeremiah Connors, of Rembrandt Way, Newport, entered the Terry Howell merchants in Port Road in Newport and set upon Ellis McCann, Cardiff Crown Court heard. CCTV footage played in court showed Simon, 25, hitting Mr McCann repeatedly with a crowbar before all three defendants leave the premises and Mr McCann is seen lying on the floor. Read all the sentences here.

Luke Spicer

He punched his partner to the ground and kicked her in the face as she sat defenceless on the pavement during a trip to Tenby which had been designed to rekindle their relationship. After launching what a judge described as a "grotesquely brutal attack" Spicer casually walked away from his girlfriend and left her screaming on the floor. The woman sought help from staff in a nearby hotel who called the police.

Andrew Perkins

He grabbed his ex-partner by the throat and choked her before slamming her face against a pebble-dashed wall after she refused to give him a lift in her car. Perkins was laying in wait for his victim at her home as she returned from a night out in Neath having already broken into the property and soaked her bed and sofa with water in a drunken act of spite.

Swansea Crown Court heard Perkins has a history of assaulting partners including throttling one and biting the ears of another. A judge described the defendant as a "cowardly bully" of women.

Donald Gordon

Having been jailed for repeatedly sexually assaulting a child he refused to accept any responsibility for his crimes and forced his victim to endure his traumatising trial. Gordon, 62, from Bargoed, was found guilty by a jury after the trial was held at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court for the offences which took place over a period of five years against one victim. On Friday, April 1, Gordon was sentenced to five years in prison.

Jason Owen

The burglar broke into three houses in the same street in a matter of hours and engaged his victims in a series of bizarre conversations. A court heard he had taken so much Valium he has no memory of the incident. From one of the properties Owen took a mobile phone which had belonged to the recently-deceased wife of the 73-year-old homeowner and had great sentimental value.

Narcis Pascu

The drug dealer shone a laser beam at a police helicopter which was searching for a missing person – endangering the lives of the crew and the public. Pascu used the device from the Swansea home where he lived with his parents and siblings.

Shaun James

He was jailed for fraudulently attempting to claim a £25,000 Covid support grant. The 28-year-old received a custodial sentence in connection with a fraudulent attempt to claim a Covid grant aimed at helping businesses stay afloat during lockdown.

James had provided fake sales invoices for cars and a forged lease for a property in Port Talbot in order to attempt to claim a local authority Covid grant of £25,000. He claimed to have set up a car sales showroom in February 2020 when in fact it was vacant and the new owner did not purchase it until April of that year.

Carl Jones

The serial fraudster gets a "perverse pleasure" from applying for credit cards and bank accounts using innocent people's details, a court heard. The first the victims knew their personal details had been used was when letters from institutions including Halifax, Lloyds, Santander, and First Direct landed on their doormats about their applications. The total potential amount of credit Carl Jones had applied for was around £100,000.

Tomas Francombe

The cocaine dealer was caught after crashing his car into a tree as he tried to flee from police. When officers searched Francombe's vehicle, which was displaying false number plates, they found £1,000 worth of the Class A drug. It was the second time in just two months police found deals of cocaine in a vehicle being driven by the 34-year-old.

Kevin Eardley

The paedophile repeatedly failed to notify police that he was staying overnight in the homes of families with children. As a registered sex offender Eardley – who has been going by the name Kevin Jones since his release from prison – was required to tell the authorities if he was going to be spending more than 12 hours at an address where youngsters lived.

Nathaniel Nuttall

He punched his neighbour Lee Thomas to the ground then kicked and stamped on the unconscious man's head following an early-morning confrontation in the victim's flat. With the bleeding man laying at his feet Nuttall calmly called 999 and explained to the operator what he had done to his friend. Hear the 999 call here.

Nuttall was convicted of manslaughter following a trial at Swansea Crown Court. The 32-year-old had denied charges of murder and manslaughter claiming he had been acting in self-defence when he "lashed out" at Mr Thomas. In the 999 call made at around 5.30am Nuttall told the operator: "Basically he started on me and I f****** punched him a few times in the face and stamped on his head several times... there's a bit of blood... I am surprised he is not f****** dead." He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and will serve two-thirds of that period in custody before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community.

Paul Fontaine and Frankie Sinclair

The two members of a nationwide criminal network were jailed for life for a murder plot involving a James Bond-style gun. Fontaine supplied a 9mm Makrov self-loading pistol used to murder Abdullahi Mahamoud in a bagel shop in Enfield, north London, on March 19, 2020. Weeks later he helped arrange to supply a new Walther PPK handgun to Cardiff career criminal Sinclair to murder Keiron Hassan and others in a rival group.

In messages on EncroChat Sinclair referred to the gun – made famous by Sean Connery in the 007 film Dr No – as a "James Bond ting". Following an Old Bailey trial Fontaine, 36, from Hackney, north London, and Sinclair, 34, from Cardiff, were found guilty of conspiracy to murder and a string of other offences. Read the full story here.

Jamie Adams

The drugged-up driver led police on a 20-mile high-speed chase during which he deliberately hit three police cars. The chip shop worker raced along Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire roads at speeds touching 110mph and even after having the front tyres of his car punctured by police continued to drive at breakneck speeds on just the bare rims of the wheels. At one stage he slammed into the side of a police car which had parked across the road to block his path. When police managed to box in the defendant's car and bring the pursuit to an end he was found to have a cocktail of drugs in his system including ketamine, cocaine, cannabis, and Valium with the reading for ketamine being 14 times over the legal driving limit.

Ethan Strickland and Noreen O'Driscoll

When teenager Strickland was involved in the robbery of Ryan O'Connor, who was subsequently murdered, he was on bail for drug offences along with his sister. Mr O'Connor 26, was stabbed to death by Joseph Jeremy, 18 and Lewis Aquilina, 20, in Newport.

The 19-year-old was found guilty of robbery along with his co-defendants and Kyle Raisis, 18, following a trial at Newport Crown Court. He was armed with a knife and a balaclava when he was driven to the Alway area of the city from Cardiff on June 10, 2021.

Strickland, of Clos Briallen, Caerau, was on bail at the time for being concerned in the supply of cocaine between August 30, 2020, and March 13, 2021, and possession of cocaine with intent to supply along with his sister Noreen O'Driscoll, 26, of Parker Road, Ely. Both later pleaded guilty to the offences. Read how long they were sentenced to here.

Abubakar Masum

The police officer who used to catch criminals now finds himself living among them after he was jailed for perverting the course of justice. The disgraced PC rang Crimestoppers and made a false report that a woman had shot a drug dealer, which resulted in armed police turning up at her place of work.

His trial heard that he made up the bogus claim after becoming "obsessed" with the 21-year-old. Masum, who no longer works for South Wales Police, denied he'd done anything wrong but was convicted following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court.

Scott Parkin, Rhiannon Key, Ceri Gibson, and Fergal Barker

The gang of thugs mugged two schoolboys and then used one of them to gain entry to a nearby flat where they assaulted the occupants and stole hundreds of pounds in cash. Between them Parkin, Key, Gibson, and Barker have committed more than 230 offences including numerous robberies and burglaries, serious assaults, possession of knives and offensive weapons, thefts, and drug matters. Sending them all the prison a judge described what the quartet did as "brazen and shocking" and he imposed extended sentences on two of them as dangerous offenders.

Jack Roberts

The 21-year-old man "cared only for his own selfish sexual desires" when he raped a teenager. Roberts pinned his victim down as he attacked her and then told the terrified young woman not to report what had happened to family members or the police.

Roberts denied rape, telling his trial at Cardiff Crown Court that the sexual contact had been consensual. But a jury rejected that version of events and convicted him. Read how long he was sentenced to here.

Miriam Heale

She armed herself with a kitchen knife and threatened to "slice up" a neighbour as the victim's terrified young son looked on. Heale was described by witnesses as foaming at the mouth and "acting like a madwoman" as she ranted in the street on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

She then turned her aggression on the police who responded to 999 calls, subjecting officers to half a hour of abuse and threats. Swansea Crown Court heard Heale has experienced a number of traumas in her life including seeing her brother sentenced to life in prison for murder when she was aged just 15.

Robert Hicks

The successful recruitment consultant who lost his business and home in the Covid pandemic turned to dealing Class A drugs to make ends meet and support his young children. Hicks was caught red-handed with a stash of cocaine deals and hundreds of pounds in cash when police swooped on the car he was sat in a car park. When officers checked his phone they found a message that he had received just minutes earlier asking how long he was going to be because his contact had people waiting for their delivery.

Jason Morris and Darren Lewis

The burglars crept into the home of a 90-year-old woman in the dead of night and ransacked it while she slept. The terrified pensioner woke to find a stranger in her bedroom rummaging through her bedside cupboard. She pressed the panic button on her wrist to raise the alarm and Lewis and Morris fled from the house.

Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard how the pair were caught thanks to a police sniffer dog, CCTV footage, a trainer recovered from a nearby river, and local knowledge. The victim of the burglary has since died and police said it was "tragic that she had to endure something as awful" in her final months.

Christopher Morris

He stabbed his friend with a carving knife following a row at a birthday party about oral sex. Morris plunged the weapon into his mate's thigh and when police arrived he told them he was the "suspect" – using his fingers to make quotation marks in the air as he said the word. The victim sat on the floor bleeding heavily through his jeans and officers performed emergency first aid until an ambulance arrived.

Jack Harris

The passenger who was caught travelling without a ticket has been jailed for a violent disturbance which saw him abusing, threatening, and struggling with police who were forced to put a spit hood over his head. As fellow passengers looked on Harris fought with officers in Swansea's High Street station for 20 minutes during which one of the officers suffered a dislocated shoulder. The defendant repeatedly threatened to kill police, challenged them to a fight, and warned them he was "juicy" and "tasty" after taking steroids. Sending him to prison a judge said his behaviour had all the hallmarks of what was colloquially known as "'roid rage".

Jose Pardinez-Olea

The paedophile who tried to groom a young girl on Instagram was caught after a mum became concerned about changes in her daughter's behaviour. The mother asked to look at the schoolgirl's mobile and saw she had sent a friend a screenshot of a conversation she had had with a man on the social media site during which the unknown male had asked her for a photo and discussed meeting. The mum subsequently contacted a so-called paedophile hunter group which took over the youngster's accounts. Read the full story here.

Jay Hill

A drug-dealing couple were found with around £2,000 worth of cannabis after police raided a house in Cardiff. Mobile phone evidence proved both of them were involved and aware of the enterprise.

Hill, 27, and Aimee McCue, 26, were both concerned in supplying cannabis to customers with the operation based at McCue's home in Splott. Officers executed a warrant at the house where they discovered 368.1g of cannabis and £895 in cash.

Shaun Warner

The father broke his friend's jaw in an alcohol-fuelled "frenzied and violent attack" at a caravan park after he took offence at a comment made about his children's behaviour. The victim also suffered a torn lip and had to take four months off work.

Warner, 29, lashed out at Michael Young at Trecco Bay caravan park in Porthcawl after drinking nine pints of lager. Initially the pair wrestled and pushed each other but the situation calmed down after security staff threatened to have the defendant removed from the site.

David Lewis

The callous carer stole thousands of pounds from the elderly and vulnerable couple he was taking care of. Lewis helped himself to more than £9,000 from the couple's saving account, "frittering it away" on clothes and presents.

At the time of the theft Lewis was in a relationship with the pensioners' granddaughter. Swansea Crown Court heard the victims have been left feeling heartbroken, betrayed, and preyed upon by the actions of someone they trusted.

Michael Williams

A man "went nuts" as he walked home from a takeaway with his partner – throwing curry at a wall before launching into a "horrific" and "brutal" 40-minute attack, a court heard. Michael Williams, of Hazel Walk in Cwmbran, strangled his then-girlfriend to the point she feared she would die. He dragged her by her hair, hit her with keys, and knelt on her neck leaving her with long-lasting injuries and fearful to leave the house.

David Daley

The drug dealer sold heroin and crack cocaine to an undercover police officer on two occasions. The 41-year-old took part in an enterprise through the use of the Lewis drugs line in order to pay off a debt.

The police officer, known as Jack, was given access to the number on March 12, 2020, and contacted a Cardiff-based dealer the next day in order to buy heroin and crack cocaine. The officer was told to head behind the Premier Inn store in Corporation Road where he waited for the dealer.

Mark Vincent

The burglar stole £12,000 from his mother and sister's home while putting their belongings in the garden and defecating on them. He carried out the offence in order to feed his amphetamine addiction.

Vincent, 60, targeted the home of mother Sylvia Buckley and sister Michele Griggs in North Cornelly, Bridgend. He ransacked the house while they were housesitting and put sentimental jewellery and clothes outside which he soiled.

William Hughes

The drug dealer was busted after police saw him driving erratically and swerving across the road in his car. Officers pulled Hughes over and found him to be more than twice the drink-drive limit while he had boxes marked "diazepam" stuffed down his pants. In fact the boxes contained 140 flubromazolam tablets – a strong sedative drug. He also had £230 in cash. When police examined the driver's phone they found he had made arrangements to supply four people on the evening he was arrested and a subsequent search of his house uncovered a stash of cocaine and weighing scales and a further 1,800 flubromazolam pills.

Larisa Jones

The pub worker drove into another vehicle after spending the night drinking and taking drugs at a party. Jones had been speeding while giving a lift home to two friends when her car struck another vehicle – injuring one of her passengers so seriously he spent weeks in an induced coma.

Yet in a letter read to Swansea Crown Court the victim, Billy Wathan, said he didn't wish to see his friend imprisoned. She was jailed for a total of 22 months and was told she would serve half of that in custody before being eligible for release on licence. She was also disqualified from driving for four years and 11 months.

Matthew Maynard

He once taunted police with photo of himself standing next to a force van while he was on the run and was found hiding in an attic after a high-speed chase in a stolen van. Maynard raced through Swansea in the BT van before jumping into an accomplice's getaway car in an attempt to escape. He then ran through gardens and into a house but his every move was being observed by a police helicopter. Read the full story here.

Jamie Roberts

The sex offender was found hiding a boy and a girl who were from children's homes in a wardrobe in his bedroom. Just weeks after police made the shocking discovery Roberts took two boys – again vulnerable teens living in care – back to his house where they drank alcohol and took drugs and he suggested getting amphetamine as it "makes you really horny". Roberts, who also goes by the name Jamie Whelan, is currently subject to a sexual harm prevention order after being convicted of child abduction.

Declan Pitman

The thug headbutted his ex-girlfriend after taking her American bulldog and threatening to kill the animal unless he was paid £5,000. Pitman, 24, attacked the woman after she turned up at his address to take the dog back.

The defendant was described as "jealous" during his relationship with his former partner and would accuse her of being unfaithful, which led to the end of the relationship. Following the break-up she moved to her mother's address but kept the dog at her home and would go there in the day to attend to him.

Daniel Martin

The 19-yer-old pretended he did not have anywhere to sleep for the night in order to stay at a friend's house before pulling a knife on her. Martin sent a text message to Amy Brown on October 19, 2021, telling her that he was homeless and had no place to stay for the evening. She took pity on him and invited her to stay the night at her home in Gorseinon, Swansea, even meeting him en route to her house as he did not know where she lived.

Ruben Carvalho

The drug dealer bragged to an undercover officer his phone line was making £3,000 a day sold heroin and crack cocaine to pay off a debt. He was part of a county lines operation which saw him regularly travelling between Cardiff and London.

The 28-year-old played a managerial role in the enterprise which saw him looking after the CJ drugs line using the tag "Craddock". Between November 2019 and March 2020 the CJ line was estimated to have made £111,000.

Michael Stokes

The abusive man moved himself and his dog into a friend's house uninvited and threatened to kick his dog to death when he was asked to move out. He also attacked and strangled the woman in front of her son and bit a police officer on the arm during his arrest.

The 42-year-old took over the home of his victim in Newport after she invited him to the property to carry out a number of DIY jobs. Despite being told to leave he remained at the house for two months and became angry when his victim made efforts to make him leave.

Mark Baldwin and Liam McCabe

Ribena bottles containing drugs and mobile phones were thrown over a prison wall by the two men who were caught on CCTV. They were then stopped by a police officer in a car parked near the prison. Baldwin, 39, and McCabe, 25, were seen trying to sneak contraband into HMP Parc in Bridgend when security officers saw the bottles being thrown over the north wall. Read the full story here.

Joshua Knights-Taylor

He hid cameras in the toilets at the care home where he worked and filmed multiple women in secret until he was finally caught out. The 23-year-old, of Tan Y Bryn in St Asaph, Denbighshire, confessed to a charge of voyeurism at his former workplace during an earlier court hearing in March. He was put before a judge after arriving to court late on May 19 for his punishment.

Ava Jones and Trevor Carr

A 12-year-old was abducted outside a train station and driven 120 miles to a Gwynedd campsite. The child was abducted by Jones, 28, and Carr, 40, who threw a blanket over their victim's head before driving from Greater Manchester to north Wales, the Manchester Evening News reports. The pair abducted the child, who was in school uniform, outside Wigan North Western railway station. A hearing held at Bolton Crown Court heard the pair told the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to turn off their phone so they couldn't be tracked.

Jordan Hobbs

The controlling and jealous man bit his girlfriend's lip and knocked her unconscious because she wanted to see her mother and her family. He also punched her when he suspected her of planning to leave him and the victim had to escape through a window.

The 28-year-old, of Cardiff, began a relationship with his victim after they met on social media but after months of dating he became abusive and jealous. While the victim said their relationship was good at first she said he would accuse her of flirting with people when in company.

Kevin Davies and Tyler Williams

The two burglars went on a week-long crime spree and trashed family homes and stole jewellery that held priceless memories. Davies, of Rhosymedre, Wrexham, appeared before Mold Crown Court charged with burglary. His co-accused Williams, of Abbots Way in Bangor on Dee, faced three burglary charges. Ryan Rothwell, prosecuting, told the court that Williams broke into a home in Malpas in Cheshire where a family of four lived. The husband, wife, and two children left home on August 14, 2020, and went away to Kent for the weekend. Read more here.

Darran Porch

The former soldier with a long history of beating and abusing women turned his partner's life into a "nightmare" with his controlling behaviour. Porch – who has 27 previous convictions for violence, "almost all" of which are domestic in nature – used a fake identity on a dating site to hide his past.

Having "lured" a woman into a relationship under false pretences he then effectively took over her life – cutting her off from her friends, monitoring her movements, not allowing her to go to the toilet unless he was present, and controlling which positions she could sleep in.

David Williams

The sexual predator who went on the run more than two decades ago has finally been locked up after being arrested at Heathrow Airport. Williams, 58, from Bridgend, abused a young girl for three years in the late 1990s and fled the UK when he realised his victim had been interviewed by police.

Following a police investigation that has spanned nearly two decades he was arrested at the London airport in October 2021 as he tried to sneak back into the UK. When he landed South Wales Police officers were there to arrest him. Read the full story here.

Gareth Meachin

The controlling bully strangled his girlfriend when she was pregnant and held a knife to her throat in a jealous rage. The assaults were so violent his own sister and mother intervened to stop him.

Meachin, 31, of Abercynon, assaulted his now-former partner on several occasions during their relationship between November last year and February. The woman was pregnant at the time of the assaults and lost the baby but it's not suggested this was as a result of Meachin's actions.

Robert Dowding

The thief stole £115,000 worth of machinery equipment from a business after breaking into an industrial estate. The theft resulted in the business losing thousands of pounds worth of work after having to temporarily shut.

Dowding, 53, and another targeted commercial premises belonging to BAS International on Llantarnam Industrial Park in Cwmbran. When the owner of the business came in the next day to discover the break in and found vehicle injection moulds worth £115,000 had been taken.

James Hopson

The 20-year-old man spent his days working for the family construction firm and his nights selling cocaine. Hopson was caught at a retail park with the tools of his trade in his van including weighing scales and bulking agents to add to the cocaine. Messages found on his phone phone showed he was charging some customers £20 for making deliveries and that he also had a "runner" working for him. Some of the people he was supplying were paying money into a bank account in a different name in an attempt to avoid detection. Read more here.

Ashley Davies and Daniel Llewelyn

The two teenage cocaine dealers were caught when police swooped on their BMW as it was parked outside a corner shop. Officers found a stash of cocaine in the car along with mobile phones full of incriminating messages. Locking them up a judge said it was clear from everything he had read and heard about the defendants that they came from supportive families and had not been brought up to be involved in drugs. Read more here.

James Thomas

He spent years sexually abusing two young vulnerable girls and has now been made the subject of an extended sentence as a dangerous offender. Thomas carried out a prolonged "campaign of rape" against one young girl and sexually assaulted another over a six-year period. The abuse started when one of the victims was aged just five. The 42-year-old denied a total of 21 offences but was convicted following a trial at Swansea Crown Court.

Jonas Ngounou

The teenage cocaine and heroin dealer was caught after residents reported seeing a car regularly coming and going from their streets and called police. Undercover officers were sent to the area and saw Ngounou in his vehicle. Read more here.

Gino Alemanno, Adam Hopkins, and Jake Dear

When police raided a house being used as a base by the cocaine dealers they found a missing woman hiding under a bed and an electronic bank card reader which customers could use to pay for drugs. Inquiries led police to a second house in Swansea being lived in by two former Army friends. I this property officers found almost £31,000 worth of cocaine along with a cannabis-growing operation and a 9mm bullet which was a "souvenir" of military service. Read the full story here.

Shaun Davies

The robber pulled a machete and demanded money at his local shop but was given the shock of his life when the brave shopkeeper refused to back down and then tried to detain him. Davies, 29, wore a hood and a face mask as he entered the Family Choice Bargains convenience store in Aberbargoed, Caerphilly, after drawing up a half-baked plan to rob the store on his phone. After bursting in and telling shopkeeper Jeva Logeswaran he was armed he then pulled out a large blade before demanding money. But Mr Logeswaran refused to yield to drug addict Davies' demands and instead tried to close the shutters. Read the full story here.

Tibor Tuliova and Callum Tannetta

The prolific car thieves went on a spree of burglaries in Cardiff which saw them taking a number of expensive vehicles from driveways. Tuliova, 21, and Tannetta, 22, carried out the burglaries at numerous properties in the Welsh capital between July and September 2021. They also became involved in a police chase which only came to an end when Tuliova crashed into a metal fence. Read more here.

Ian Craig

The dad "used his car as a weapon" and deliberately drove at a man who he believed had mistreated his daughter. Craig, who has 116 previous offences on his record, twice tried to run down his victim after a chance encounter in a residential street. Sending the 54-year-old to prison a judge told him that whatever the rights and wrongs of the issues between the two men the defendant's behaviour had been unacceptable and extremely dangerous.

Nathan Richards

The drug dealer addicted to crack cocaine and heroin was found to have supplied Class A drugs to friends. The 41-year-old was also found in possession of cocaine in Cardiff. A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court heard Richards had been dealing to a small group of people in the Grangetown area of the city.

Viktoris Domaskis

The cannabis dealer who "loves" the drug was caught after police saw him selling it to a child outside shops. Police followed Domaskis' car as he drove away from the street deal and when they pulled him over they found 21 ready-to-go cannabis deals and £220 in cash. Messages found on one of the defendant's phones showed he had been touch with 14 customers that day though he refused to reveal the pin for a second mobile.

Jake Thomas

He was jailed for a year-long spree of offending which saw him deliberately knocking someone down with his car, taking part in a gang assault of a victim in the street, breaking into a house, damaging property, and intimidating witnesses. A judge told the 25-year-old that the residents of the town where he carried out his crimes deserve a "lengthy break" from his activities. He added it was "ridiculous and unjustifiable" that the defendant had been repeatedly arrested and released under investigation during the spree.

Daniel Baker and Steven Hughes

The Port Talbot man and his trusted lieutenant were running an "industrial-scale" cocaine trafficking operation shipping large amounts of the Class A drugs to communities across south Wales and beyond.

Scaffolder Baker ran the organised crime group while Steven Hughes from Abercynon – known as "Sky Steve" because of his work for the broadcaster – was the courier responsible for driving large quantities of cash and drugs around south Wales. The two men have been jailed for a total of 20 years while a third member of the group, Mark Lapper, had been jailed for his part in the conspiracy which involved distributing drugs in Oxfordshire on behalf of the gang.

James Norville

He was caught dangerously driving by police and told he was extremely lucky not to get a prison term then did "exactly the same thing" again. Norville was serving a suspended sentence for dangerous driving and driving while uninsured when he was spotted behind the wheel in Ystrad Mynach. After officers spotted his uninsured Seat Leon they turned on the blue lights and signalled for him to move over. However the 23-year-old had other ideas and he dangerously overtook cars and ran a red light. Read the full story here.

Faisal Khan

The drug dealer drove at a police car after he was seen slumped behind the wheel of a car with a crack pipe. He also sold heroin to an undercover officer and stole tools from workmen in order to feed his drug addiction.

Khan, 43, was addicted to heroin at the time he carried out the offences in Cardiff. On February 2, 2020, police officers saw the defendant at 4.30pm in the driver's side of a Toyota slumped forward and unresponsive despite the engine running.

Gareth Griffiths

A man fired a crossbow at a cafe in the middle of the afternoon as part of a "long-running feud" with the owner. Griffiths had drunk a bottle of wine and six cans of lager before issuing a series of lurid threats over the phone to the café boss then arming himself with the weapon. Swansea Crown Court heard he fired one bolt at a car parked near the business then one at the front of the premises while staff were inside. A subsequent breath test showed he was almost twice the legal drink-drive limit at the time.

Christian Howells

The paedophile sexually assaulted two young girls after forcing them to drink alcohol and take cannabis. The 47-year-old took advantage of his two victims who were left feeling anxious and depressed following the abuse.

Howells' victims, who were both younger than 15 years old at the time of the assaults, described how they had trusted the defendant but he used their trust to fulfil his own sexual gratification. Howells, of Mountain Ash, maintains his innocence but was found guilty following a trial and was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court.

Harri Pullen

The prisoner who smuggled a phone from one prison to another said he was offered £3,000 for the mobile by fellow inmates. Drug dealer Pullen managed to take the contraband with him when he was transferred from HMP Manchester to Swansea jail in preparation for his forthcoming release. The phone was eventually recovered after being located hidden in the defendant's bum but an investigation showed that in the preceding months he had made and received more than 2,500 calls and texts from both prisons. Read how much longer he got sentenced for here.

Eduart Drazhi

The Albanian entered the UK on a boat before travelling to Wales where he acted as a gardener in a drugs conspiracy. Drazhi looked after a cannabis factory at a property in Commercial Street in Glyncorrwg. He was caught when police raided the property and he tried to make an exit from the rear of before being detained in the garden by officers who had surrounded the three-bed mid-terrace house. He was sentenced to nine months in prison.

James Land

The former police community support officer caught filming young children in a swimming pool changing room had been secretly building up a sickening collection of child sex abuses for almost 20 years. Land, of Llanfair Talhaiarn, Abergele, had worked in a cyber crime unit at Derbyshire Police HQ before his crimes were exposed. He ended up on the radar of police after an internet address linked to him had been accessing indecent image of children. Find out how long he got jailed for here.

Angharad Williamson, John Cole and Craig Mulligan

The three killers of innocent schoolboy Logan Mwangi were sentenced to a total of 72 years for the murder of the five-year-old who was beaten to death, suffering dozens of injuries, and dumped in a river. Logan's mother and stepfather, and teenager Craig Mulligan, were all found guilty of murder following a trial.

Angharad Williamson, 31, of Lower Llansantffraid, Sarn, Bridgend, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 28 years, stepdad John Cole, 40, of Maesglas, Ynysawdre, Bridgend, was also sentenced to life with a minimum of 29 years. Mulligan, who was 13 at the time of the attack, was given life with a minimum of 15 years. Read the court sentencing here.

Steven White

The murderer fatally stabbed his victim Jordan Cody in the neck after following him into a tent. Mr Cody suffered catastrophic injuries and bled to death moments after collapsing. White attacked his victim with a knife outside the Huggard Centre in Cardiff. The killer had been released from prison four days earlier and was struggling to cope with civilian life, telling people shortly before the stabbing: "I need to go back to jail."

Horrific footage of the murder was played to a trial at Cardiff Crown Court which depicted White, 44, entering a tent used for drug-taking. Mr Cody, 31, was already inside the tent and after a scuffle he was seen running from the tent before falling to the floor.

Mohammed Yasin Salangi and Mohammed Ramin Salangi

The two men from Caerphilly were jailed for helping their older brother cover up his wife's brutal murder. Pizza shop owner Nezam Salangy, 44, killed his wife but claimed she had simply left him for another man. He continued to protest his innocence as he was condemned in court for using bank accounts and phone messages to create fake leads appearing to show that Zobaidah Salangy was still alive.

Brandon Hayden and Amy Salter

The pair responsible for a dog which fatally mauled schoolboy Jack Lis were jailed. Ten-year-old Jack suffered catastrophic injuries after being attacked by an American bulldog called Beast.

Hayden, 19, and Salter, 29, pleaded guilty to being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog which caused severe injuries to Jack's head and neck. The attack took place at an address linked to Salter in Pentwyn, Penyrheol, Caerphilly. Jack was killed after Beast attacked him while he was standing near the address when the dog jumped onto him and caused the fatal injuries. Read about a petition launched by Jack's mum here.

Benjamin Price

The man with a "sadistic" side to his nature subjected his pregnant partner to a campaign of abuse including pouring a kettle of boiling water over her arm. Price carried out the series of sickening assaults on the woman over a prolonged period leaving her feeling exhausted and like a "shell" of the person she used to be.

Michael Athernought

The rapper issued a series of lurid threats against a rival wordsmith before trying to firebomb his house but getting the wrong address. Athernought – who raps under the name Ath – went out in the dead of night armed with a petrol bomb to target his victim, Official Chronic, following a feud between the pair. But the defendant firebombed the wrong house – instead torching a property belonging to a mum and her teenage son.

Andrew Keenan

The "controlling bully" was exposed when he attacked his wife following a meal at which he had taunted a woman in a same-sex relationship. Keenan was said to be "extremely violent" after drinking and subjected his wife Andrea to a series of attacks. These included pouring boiling water on her, banging her head on the floor, and making her transfer him £20,000 by grabbing her thumb and unlocking her phone.

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Ieuan Llewelyn

The young cocaine dealer broke both his legs jumping from a roof as he tried to flee from a police raid. Llewelyn was part of a gang of four young men who were supplying "significant quantities" of the Class A drug to users in and around Swansea.

Naomi Williams

A judge lamented the "tragedy" of a mum who achieved strong grades at school only to fall into a long spiral of drugs and crime. In her latest offences Williams stole more than £1,200 worth of Boots products in Cardiff and cut a security guard with a knife.

David King

King was j ailed for sexually assaulting a teenager 17 years ago in what a judge described as a forceful, nasty, and cruel attack. The defendant put his had over the terrified girl's mouth to stop her screaming during the incident. Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard following the abuse the victim turned to drugs and self-harming and she was "written off as an addict who could not be believed".

Cameron Hassan

He filmed himself raping a sleeping woman using his victim's own mobile phone. Hassan had maintained his innocence when questioned by police and pleaded not guilty when he got to court but changed his plea during his trial at Swansea Crown Court after the jury was shown a video of the sex assault.

David Owens

When the heroin-dealing dad-of-six was arrested and his phone rang in custody it played a "Hello, I'm your drug dealer" ringtone. Owens had been caught red-handed selling heroin to a man on a Swansea street and was being dealt with by officers when the mobile went off. The customer he had sold drugs to ran off when police approached but was chased and detained.

Alfie Phillips

The drug dealer from Newport punched, kicked, and stamped on a man during a vicious assault involving nine other people and left the victim with a broken nose. He was later found in possession of a drugs phone line which proved he had been selling cocaine and heroin. Read more here.

Abdi Abdiaziz

The cocaine and cannabis dealer was caught after he and an accomplice were seen by police selling drugs to a woman. When police seized the dealer's phone they found messages related to the sale of Class A drugs. The 26-year-old was driving a car in Cardiff on February 1, 2020, with his co-defendant Abdul Azziz Al-Ekely in the passenger seat. When they passed through the Riverside area of the city police officers observed a woman getting in and out of the car and were suspicious of a drug deal taking place.

Chloe Parry

Parry was found with an eight-inch knife in her possession at a Swansea city centre hotel. Police found her behind the reception at the Dragon Hotel in Kingsway. After initially being reluctant to do so she gave officers the knife, which measured eight inches. The 22-year-old, of no fixed abode who has six convictions for 11 offences on her record, appeared for sentencing having admitted possessing a knife in a public place.

Andrew Davison

He throttled his ex-partner then stabbed her with a broken bottle after accusing her of taking his Valium tablets. Davison lost his temper with his former girlfriend and attacked her in her flat in Swansea. The 32-year-old later "calmed down" when he found – and took – his misplaced pills.

Drugs gang

The gang dealt with up to £5m worth of drugs in a substantial commercial operation and were discovered after their encrypted chats were cracked by police. The group also bought firearms as part of the enterprise which saw them trafficking Class A drugs into south Wales. The read the full story of how they were caught here.

Jay Davies

The teenager smirked and laughed after crashing into a car on the hard shoulder during a police chase in which he reached speeds of 140mph. He seriously injured another driver who had previously lost his brother in a road collision.

Davies stole his father's Volkswagen Golf from his home in Newport on August 3, 2021, and refused to stop when told to do so by police before embarking on a high-speed chase. He crashed into the back of a car belonging to Lionel Harrhy who had broken down and was parked on the hard shoulder of the A48 in Cardiff.

Kye Lewis, Marcus Bounds, Matthew Ace

The same cars were stolen by a gang of brazen thieves three times in a fortnight – twice from secure garages after police had recovered them from the earlier thefts. Other stolen cars were used to ramraid the compounds where the seized vehicles were being stored and the cars were then driven away before forensic tests could be done. Read the full story here.

Mohammed Ahmed

This abusive man strangled his former partner and threatened to kill her more than a decade after their relationship ended. He also threatened to "batter her" if she called the police. The 33-year-old, of Cardiff, would not accept his relationship with his former partner was over and continued to harass her despite her pleas for him to stop.

Zoe Hopkins

She repeatedly "smashed" her friend's head on the steps in a block of flats in an assault motivated by jealousy. Hopkins was intoxicated when she attacked her victim after apparently taking exception to text messages sent to her boyfriend and his response to them. The defendant has 10 assaults on her record out of her total of 22 previous offences.

Benjamin Williams

After being arrested on suspicion of assaulting his own mother Williams subjected a policeman to a tirade of racist abuse before assaulting him with a shoe. An intoxicated Williams told the PC he was not white and was not British and should not be a police officer. He also made references to the constable coming to the UK on a raft or boat and accused him of giving information to the Taliban.

Ady Ali

The teenage drug dealer was caught trying to smuggle wraps of cocaine into a popular outdoor music festival. A sniffer dog picked up the scent of something concealed in Ali's shorts on entry to the Escape into the Park dance festival in Swansea's Singleton Park and a subsequent search found a dozen wraps of cocaine along with almost £600 in cash.

Paul Edwards

The "arrogant" anti-vaxxer smashed the windows at Covid vaccination sites in Wales in a bizarre attempt to stop people getting their jabs. Edwards insisted he was "justified" to carry out the attack at the two sites claiming his actions were his "last chance" of making an impact in influencing people against the vaccines.

Michael Murphy

He attacked his mother in the middle of the night while shouting "I f****** hate you" and was described as "possessed". He later went on to trash her home and pulled a toilet away from a wall.

Murphy, 36, of Merthyr Tydfil, assaulted his mother for which he received a suspended prison sentence. But after he was told to leave her home he left holes and scratches around the house before dismantling the bathroom.

Paul Thomas

He wielded a fake gun while breaking into vehicles and threatening to "blow off" one car owner's head. The beer keg maker went on the spree of break-ins after struggling to cope with his child not recognising him, a court heard. The 20-year-old appeared to be trying car doors in Rhiwglyn Road, Ogmore Vale, at around 6am when Leah Spanswick saw him through her bedroom window.

Nicholas Jerrard

Jerrard 'violently resisted' police officers who responded to a domestic incident causing them both to suffer injuries. Swansea Crown Court heard how police officers attended an address in Margam regarding an abandoned 999 call. They could see the living room window was smashed and they found Jerrard and his partner at the time. Officers felt that Jerrard was under the influence of drink and drugs due to his behaviour, which continued to escalate, and there were fears that he could become violent.

Scott Light

He sexually assaulted a boy in the toilets of a bowling alley. Light already had a history of attacking children when he targeted the eight-year-old.

He went to the venue one evening and the way he looked at children near him caused one family to ask to be moved to another lane. They said the 32-year-old had "creeped the children out". He then went into the toilets and waited for 19 minutes at the urinals before an eight-year-old boy entered.

Mordecai Sunrise

The homeless man living in the woods terrorised a woman after threatening to burn down her home and calling her "a c***". He would also prevent her from sleeping by shouting expletives in the woods near her home. Sunrise, 47, had know his victim Danika Fawcett for a number of years. But when she walked past him in the street in Monmouth with her two-year-old grandson he launched a tirade of abuse at her.

Jason Queeley

A Swansea chef has been left with sleepless nights and has moved house after his home was burgled and many of his belongings stolen. Swansea Crown Court heard how Oliver Perkis found his home in Uplands, Swansea, had been burgled overnight. His driving licence, bank card, and around £30 to £40 had been stolen along with two hooded jumpers, some protein powder, a mini speaker, video games, and his chef's knife and knife sheath. Queeley was arrested for the offence.

Nicky Hall

A judge accused the drug dealer of "revelling" in his crime after videos were found on his mobile phone advertising their sale with the tagline: "Got the white that will make you fly like a kite." Swansea Crown Court heard how on September 29, 2020, plain-clothed police officers on patrol in the Hafod area of Swansea in an unmarked vehicle saw a stolen white van driving along Neath Road which led them to the defendant.

Joshua Bevan

Indecent images of children as young as four being abused were found on the phone of a convicted sex offender. In June 2021 South Wales Police officers from the online investigation team based in Bridgend were alerted to a computer linked to an address in Crwys Terrace, Penlan, Swansea, that was being used to download indecent images of children.

Christopher Skene

The drug dealer was found in possession of more than £7,000-worth of heroin, cocaine, and cannabis after a fellow dealer led police to his address. Officers also found a Rambo-style knife at his Cardiff home as well as various drug paraphernalia.

Michael Myers

The would-be robber was armed with a sawn-off shotgun when he attempted to steal a Rolex watch worth £53,000 and threatened to shoot his victims until he learned one of them was a police officer. The incident left the family "traumatised" and considering whether to sell their home. Myers, 42, demanded the watch from its owner when he produced the firearm from a rucksack after entering the victim's Cardiff home. .

Konstantinis Galatas

A cannabis farm was uncovered after neighbours reported suspicious activity at an unoccupied house in their street. People living near the Morriston property reached for the phone after seeing people carrying a "large number" of black bags to a van parked in a rear lane.

Police caught one of the gardeners working in the house but the other, who fled through a back door while police were at the front door, remains unidentified and unaccounted for. With the help of a Greek interpreter a judge told the defendant who didn't get away that he had been "very foolish" to get involved in the cultivating of cannabis.

Jonathan Davies

The drug addict stole money from his mother-in-law which she had borrowed to pay for her daughter's funeral. He initially denied taking the money, which was intended to be used to pay for his own partner's send-off, but confessed to his victim in a letter from prison.

Scott Garnett

The motorist seen "drifting" from lane to lane on the M4 before hitting the central reservation barrier had taken 20 Valium tablets and was in "no fit state to do anything, least of all drive". Earlier that night Scott Garnett had been woken up by fellow drivers who found him asleep at the wheel of his car at a set of traffic lights in Swansea. Swansea Crown Court heard that when Garnett's driving came to an end he appeared to be "not fully conscious" and was confused about where he was, seemingly mistaking Port Talbot for Maesteg.

Liam Jones

He pulled out a machete on his friend in an argument over drugs but was chased down the street and attacked with a baseball bat. He ended up with injuries, while his victim was left unharmed, and has now been jailed. The 31-year-old had been smoking cannabis with Ashley Boyland in a shed at the latter's Bargoed home when an argument began with Jones accused of stealing cannabis.

Ashley Fulford and Kallum Owen

The drug dealers were caught with two-dozen cocaine deals worth more than £4,500 in the glove box of their van. Police swooped on the vehicle after seeing it driving slowly down a Swansea street and stopping alongside a pedestrian before an exchange took place through the open window. A search of the van driver's home uncovered more than £10,500 in cash in a bag in the kitchen.

Michael Hughes

The heroin and crack cocaine dealer in his 40s was found living with – and supplying drugs to – his teenage girlfriend and her mother. Police initially went to the Swansea house following concerns that a drugs gang had taken over the property and were using it as a base for operations. In fact they found 44-year-old Hughes living with his 17-year-old partner and her mother – both of whom were among his Class A customers.

Hughie Janes

A man who raped an 11-year-old boy sees nothing wrong with engaging in sexual activity with children, a court heard. Janes believes children of primary school age know what sexual activity is and "they want it". Swansea Crown Court heard the defendant thinks he was giving pleasure to the boy he raped and he does not think he committed an offence. Passing an extended sentence on Janes a judge told him he posed a danger to children.

Bryan Huggins

The pensioner groomed what he believed was a 13-year-old girl before travelling to Swansea with massage oil, a vibrator, and Viagra for sex with her. In the 72-year-old's car police also found a role of heavy-duty tape and an audiobook of a story about a girl who was abducted from outside school.

Huggins checked into a hotel in Swansea and arranged to meet the child at a branch of Tesco – telling her to pretend to be his granddaughter to avoid arousing suspicion. In fact he had been communicating with a decoy account being run by a so-called paedophile hunter group.

Abdul-Majid Rahman

The former city councillor was found in possession of more than 100 indecent photos of children. Rahman was jailed for three years and eight months at Newport Crown Court after pleading guilty to possessing and sharing indecent images of children at an address in Corporation Road, Newport. The 34-year-old, of Marine Terrace in Porthcawl, pleaded guilty to distributing 12 category A indecent photographs of children between November 2020 and May 2021 as well as to sharing one category B indecent image of a child on March 1, 2021.

Steven Rowe

Gasps were heard in court as footage was played of a fatal head-on collision which resulted in the death of a young father. The driver, Rowe, had been out all night drinking alcohol and taking drugs when he became involved in a police chase during which the crash occurred.

The 26-year-old, of Merthyr Tydfil, caused the death of Robbie-Lee Selway, 21, who was the front seat passenger of a stolen Ford Fiesta which collided with a white Renault Clio between the Hirwaun and Llwydcoed junctions of the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road. Rowe had driven into incoming traffic after the number of lanes in the road reduced due to roadworks in a bid to get away from pursuing police.

Stewart McGinn

The cyclist killed an elderly woman after he collided with her at speed as she walked on the pavement and callously rode off. Elizabeth Jayne Stone suffered a fractured skull after being knocked off her feet and died days later in hospital.

McGinn did not check to see if the 79-year-old was injured after he crashed into her in Monmouth despite her friend pleading with the cyclist to stop. He handed himself into police after seeing an appeal following Ms Stone's death.

Rebaz Sallhie

The driver rammed police cars during two separate police chases after "panicking" because he thought the officers would beat him up. Sallhie raced through a pedestrianised area popular with late-night clubbers before giving police the slip only to become involved in a second high-speed pursuit – this one over the course of some 15 miles – later the same day. He then rammed police cars and injured an officer as he tried to get away before crashing into a hotel and running off.

Mark Whittingham and Jordan Tanner

A cocaine dealer advertised his illicit trade with a tattoo complete with his drug line phone number. Tattooed Whittingham and friend and neighbour Tanner were running a significant cocaine-dealing operation from their Afan Valley base.

When officers searched a number of vans owned by the men they recovered more than £31,000 of high-purity cocaine while in the house of one of the dealers police found a stun gun disguised as a torch. Police also recovered a laptop computer belonging to Whittingham containing indecent images of children. Read more about the case here.

Jessica Bevan

A police officer was off work for a month and then was only able to return to light duties after being attacked by a woman in a cell. Bevan had been arrested following a public order incident in Swansea when she kicked and struck the female officer in a "fit of rage" leaving her victim with a damaged knee and requiring a splint on her leg.

Bevan has a long history of offending and at the time of the attack was subject to a suspended sentence for assaulting three police officers. Sending her back to prison a judge said she could see no alternative to immediate custody.

Thomas James

The Hermes driver used the same van he used for his job to transport heroin between west Wales and Newport six times before being caught by police as he attempted to do it on a seventh occasion. James was stopped by police at a petrol station and was found to be carrying more than £17,000 worth of the drug together with £140. Police sought to detain him at the scene but he physically resisted and caused injury to a police officer during the melee. See the video of him running off here.

Matthew Sutor

He left a young child with a fractured rib and bruises claimed he was "still pumped" from a visit to the gym when he caused the injuries. Sutor hurt the youngster, who cannot be named for legal reasons, during an incident in south Wales in the summer of 2021. The 33-year-old initially said the injuries had been caused accidentally but later admitted responsibility.

Simeon Richards

The 22-year-old used a drone in an attempt to smuggle drugs and mobile phones into a prison but was caught by police hiding in nearby bushes using an iPad. Richards attached an orange and black football sock to the drone which contained the contraband he attempted to smuggle into HMP Parc in Bridgend. Four packages were found to contain 399 buprenorphine tablets, around 30g of cannabis, and 11 mobile phones and their chargers.

Russel Gayford

A pensioner who entrusted Gayford to look after her garden two days a week discovered that he stole money from her handbag when a camera was set up in her bedroom after she discovered money was going missing. For eight years the 75-year-old hired him to carry out the job for her at her house in Llandovery. But after money started going missing from her house a motion detector CCTV system was set up in her bedroom. Swansea Crown Court heard how the pensioner received an alert on her phone after a motion was detected in her bedroom.

Geraldo Xixi

The cannabis factory worker fled across the rooftops of a row of terraced houses as police forced their way in through the front door. Xixi spent half an hour on the roofs before coming down and being arrested in a nearby garden.

A search of the house the defendant fled from uncovered a commercial-scale operation with 130 plants in plastic-lined rooms, lights, fans, timers, and fertiliser. It also emerged the people who set up the farm had dug up the street outside and tapped directly into the mains electricity cable before relaying the road.

Dominic Croucher

He reversed into a wall at a petrol station as he drove away from police before smashing into a taxi and then abandoning his car prompting a helicopter search to locate his whereabouts. Sentencing Croucher to a year in prison Judge Geraint Walters said: "The facts of the case are sadly all too common these days. The court is routinely dealing with young men who abuse the road."

Inderjeet Kaur

The imposter mother admitted to police that she pretended to be 150 people on their practical and theory driving tests across Britain to the tune of £700 and £800 a time. Kaur, a 29-year-old mother-of-one from Swansea, had led a previously unremarkable life but told police she was lured into the crimes by money she was offered.

At Swansea Crown Court Kaur was sentenced to just eight months for the fraud because only 63 cases could be proven by police. Kaur committed the offences all over the UK and more so in Swansea, Carmarthen, Bridgend, north Wales, Birmingham, Nottingham, London, and the home counties for women of Asian descent who didn't have a good grasp of the English language and most of whom had previously failed their tests at least once.

Ashley Jones

Jones has a long history of violence and was jailed for attacking a stranger in the street after striking his victim to the head with a hammer with such force that he fractured his skull and left him with neurological damage. Jones leapt from the passenger seat of a car in Barry on September 11, 2020, then approached his victim and within seconds beat him about the head with the weapon causing terrible and lasting injuries to the man. A judge said there was no conceivable reason for Jones' actions other than the 38-year-old was "excited by violence".

Scott and Simon Foote

The drug-dealing brothers were found with a combined amount of 18.2kg of heroin and crack cocaine worth £1m after one of them was pulled over by police while transporting the drugs. Both brothers were based in Liverpool and were delivering packages of Class A drugs to south Wales. Read the full story here.

Khandakar Jesan

He viciously attacked his wife by punching her in the face and hitting her with a chair following an argument about looking after their children – while one of them was in the room. The 27-year-old was at home with his wife and two young children in Caebricks Road in Swansea. His wife took the children, aged 16 months and three years old, to bed and asked Jesan to help, a court heard. When he refused an argument soon started and later, at around 2.15am the following morning, Jesan brought the youngest child into the living room where his wife was sleeping and placed the child on top of her. He then proceeded to insult her using "offensive and lurid" language.

Lewis Watkins

The thug ran over his ex-partner with a car during an argument in which he called her a "s***" and a "dull c***". He drove off after injuring her and was caught on CCTV changing his clothes by a skip.

Watkins, 26, of Ebbw Vale, also trashed the victim's mother's car by using a brick to smash her wing mirrors. The defendant and his ex-partner had been in a relationship for around three years and had rekindled their romance months before the assault.

Matthew Ackerman

The criminal stole cars and led police on a chase through Swnasea when they tried to apprehend him. The 24-year-old, of no fixed abode appeared at Swansea Crown Court via prison videolink for sentencing having admitted two counts of theft of a motor vehicle, attempted theft of a motor vehicle, and dangerous driving.

David Potham

The prolific burglar was found at 7am sleeping on his victim's sofa surrounded by half-eaten Easter eggs. Dozy Potham remained sound asleep until police officers arrived at the house and woke him from his slumber.

The defendant had a pair of his victim's socks on his hands, stolen earrings in his trouser pocket, and a rucksack full of the family's possession including children's passports and a laptop. Swansea Crown Court heard the two young girls who live in the house were "terrorised" by the experience of having an intruder in their home and have been left worried that he will return.

Stephanie Jones and Jordan Davies

They were part of a gang of "animalistic" vigilantes who beat up an innocent tourist in his campervan, robbed him and stripped him naked, then frogmarched him into a nearby pub in a west Wales town because they wrongly thought he was a paedophile. The bleeding and bruised man asked for help in the bar but was thrown out – and as he sat on the pavement outside in a distressed state a female member of the gang kicked him in the face before laughing. Read the full story here.

Luke O'Brien

The driver attempted to run over a father and son outside their home following an altercation on a night out. CCTV footage of the hit and run showed the father dragging his son out of the car's path as it hurtled towards them.

O'Brien, 26, lay in wait outside the home of Sam and Clive Kitchen in Cardiff in the early hours of Christmas Eve 2021. When he saw them both leaving their car he increased his speed and attempted to run them over.

Raihan Miah

The stalker sent 155 voice calls and FaceTime calls in one day to his former partner and threatened to post intimate photos of her if she didn't withdraw her complaint to the police. He also verbally abused her and posted photos online of her and her mother along with their contact details. The 23-year-old, of Cardiff, split up from his partner but wouldn't accept she did not want to see him any more.

Craig Harris

He pushed a screwdriver into his pregnant partner's stomach and threatened to "gut her like a fish" and to kill her unborn baby. Harris has a long history of assaulting and harassing partners and ex-partners, including breaking the jaw of one victim, leading a judge to brand him a "cowardly bully" who was incapable of safely being in a relationship with women. Sending the defendant to prison a judge said the only way the courts could protect women from him was by locking him up for as long as possible.

Adam O'Keefe

He told police he drove from south Wales to Oxfordshire to "clear his head" but was found with up to £180,000 worth of cocaine. And things then went from bad to worse when his phone revealed he had been been dealing wholesale quantities of drugs.

The 31-year-old, of Bridgend, was stopped by police in an area of Oxfordshire known for drug dealing at 10pm on February 11, 2022. When his car was searched he was found in possession of £9,850 in cash and a small amount of cannabis.

Claudiu Dumitru, Iulian Buruiana, and Cristian Raducanu

The trio travelled to south Wales armed and "tooled up" with a stun gun and an axe to scare a woman working as an escort. They were caught on the drive home when they were pulled over by police.

Police were called to a disturbance in Newport after a car containing the three drove away. The defendants were later stopped on the eastbound carriageway of the M4 near junction 27.

Marcus Lewis and Keiran Bunce

The prolific criminals teamed up to commit two burglaries on consecutive nights. Lewis and Bunce smashed their way into a woman's house in the dead of night before stealing a haul of personal items and the next night broke into a tanning salon while the owner was asleep on the premises. Read the full story here.

Kingsley Perera

The former children's entertainer who was unmasked as a paedophile and had strict restrictions on his internet usage was caught with a secret phone. Perera is required to register any smart phone he owns with the authorities after being jailed for downloading thousands of images of child sexual abuse. But despite being given a strong warning by a crown court in 2021 the 59-year-old was found by police hiding in a car with an undisclosed Huawei phone which he tried to conceal in a nearby shed when the officers turned their backs.

Krystian Smolen

He stabbed his brother-in-law with a knife after a row broke out during a fishing trip. Smolen grabbed the serrated-edged weapon and plunged it into his victim's thigh leaving the man bleeding profusely and resulting in armed police being dispatched to the scene.

He denied a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent and gave evidence at his trial but shortly after leaving the witness box he jumped on a ferry and headed for mainland Europe. He was acquitted in his absence but a warrant was issued and after almost two weeks at large he was arrested. He returned to the dock to be sentenced for the assault having previously admitted a lesser charge.

Jayden Green

The young drug dealer was found in possession of £10,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis and around £15,000 of designer clothes and bikes when police searched his home. He was also found in possession of a Rambo knife and a knuckleduster. Green, 21, of Cardiff, was stopped by police who were searching for a vulnerable teenager involved in drug dealing.

Macauley Cotterill

The drug dealer was found in possession of more than £20,000 worth of cocaine weighing more than half a kilo as well as £15,000 in cash and a Rolex watch. Cotterill was selling the Class A drugs to other dealers.

The 25-year-old, from Cardiff, was discovered when his car was stopped by police on May 26 and various items were seized. A mobile phone revealed text messages which indicated he had been dealing cocaine by the ounce for financial reward.

James Brum

The "selfish and self-centred" paedophile groomed and sexually assaulted an underage teenager. The abuse left the victim traumatised after he "robbed her of her virginity and childhood".

Brum, 39, of Newport, manipulated his victim to force her to engage in sexual activity including intercourse. When he was discovered he sought to blame the girl for the abuse, telling a friend he was in love with her and she had been his equal in a relationship. But this was dismissed by the sentencing judge.

Jorgen Bami

He lived in squalid conditions with a bed in a single kitchen and a bathroom and claimed he maintained the hundreds of cannabis plants inside the building because he was being threatened. A judge said he found it hard to believe that Bami – who cannot speak English and listened to the hearing through a translator – was merely a gardener and pointed to text messages police discovered on the 26-year-old's mobile phone which showed he offered step-by-step advice to another person on how to grow the plants

Louis Maxwell

Maxwell was given a £50,000 UK Government grant but ended up blowing the money on drugs. Maxwell, of Newport, was given the massive government grant for his vehicle recovery firm. The 35-year-old first used the money sensibly – buying a £22,000 tow truck. However he frittered the remaining money away on crack cocaine before selling the tow truck to buy more of the Class A drug.

And after running up a debt he then became involved in a drugs conspiracy which made more than £350,000. He also burgled a house of cash and drove dangerously during a police pursuit. Read the full story here.

Beqir Vata, Kujdesi Vata, and Milazim Vata

Two brothers were found growing hundreds of cannabis plants worth as much as £900,000 inside an industrial unit in Pontypridd. Beqir Vata, 41, and Kujdes Vata, 37, were discovered running the huge cannabis factory in the unit by officers from South Wales Police, along with 856 plants.

The plants were given an estimated street value of between £299,600 and £898,800. The men's younger brother was later identified as a result of inquiries conducted at an address in Gloucester. Milazim, 23, was arrested after police found huge vacuum packed bags of cannabis weighing more than 11kg under his bed, which were given a potential street value of £137,500. Read the full story here.

Adam Edwards

He subjected his ex partner to a brutal assault which left her so badly hurt she says she is too scared to look in the mirror.

Stephen Pullen and Lynette Baldwin

Pullen agreed to throw packages containing cannabis over a prison wall after his son was being beaten up while serving a prison sentence due to his father's drug debt. The inmate's mother also became involved in the scheme to prevent her son from being assaulted.

Pullen, 48, and Baldwin, 55, of Newport, tried to smuggle 382g of cannabis and eight mobile phones into HMP Parc in Bridgend. They failed after prison officers intercepted the packages and called the police who traced the former couple's car back to them. Read what happened next here.

Gregory Gair

The serial offender told a woman to "sleep with one eye open" and threatened to burn down her home and kidnap her dog after she told him she didn't want to be in a relationship. He also said he would send round people who would smash down her door to retrieve £15.

The 37-year-old, of Newport, scared his victim after he told her he knew where he lived and sent hundreds of threatening text messages and voice notes. He became angry after she blocked him on social media and made various threats against her safety.

Daniel Ellis

The career burglar targeted six homes in two nights during a drug-fuelled spree of offending. Ellis had only been out of prison for a matter of weeks when he broke into two family homes and tried to break into another four. From one of the homes he stole a jar of loose change and it was the children of the family who found the smashed and abandoned jar on the street the following morning as they walked to school. The quick-thinking youngsters preserved the jar in case it held any forensic clues about who had just broken into their house.

Bajram Koleci

He grew a cannabis factory worth almost £200,000 above a disused takeaway. Swansea Crown Court heard how Koleci was caught by police running the enterprise above 28 Station Road, Port Talbot, on the floors above the former Best Kebab & Fried Chicken, which was vacant at the time. Officers acting on intelligence forced entry into the property to find the Albanian and another male inside the property.

Benjamin Lord

The burglar stole £10,000 worth of equipment from a leisure centre and also stole laptops from a student house. He also swiped vodka and products from various shops.

Lord, 39, broke into Newport International Sports Village but was caught after and alarm was set off and notified police. When officers attended the centre at around 11pm several men on bikes scattered from the scene.

Jason Harris

The former council roofer was jailed after being caught driving at more than twice the legal alcohol limit. Swansea Crown Court heard how Harris drove a Ford Transit along the A4067 in Ystradgynlais when he was stopped by police at 10.15am. He was found to have no insurance or tax and further checks found he was disqualified from driving. It also became clear to the officers dealing with Harris that he was intoxicated so a roadside breath test was carried out. It showed he had 75mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mg.

Brett Keohane

He grabbed his mother around the throat and punched her in the head before assaulting his father who tried to stop him. His parents have now said they never wish to see him again.

The 39-year-old attacked his elderly parents Brian and Geraldine Keohane at their home in Tonyrefail. The defendant had been drinking prior to the assaults and had no recollection of the incident.

Owen Knight

The dealer caught peddling illegal drugs on the streets of Swansea had travelled from Essex to do so in order to pay off a debt. Police officers from the organised crime team were on mobile patrol when they spotted Knight, who they felt had an appearance of a drug user, walking into a lane along Llangyfelach Road in Swansea. He was observed walking towards a parked car and trying to open the passenger door to get inside.

Marc Poretta

The robber jumped on his victim from behind and tackled him to the floor before reaching into his back pocket and stealing his wallet. He then went on to use bank cards to buy food. The 46-year-old attacked Timothy Inight in Newport city centre on August 28 in a random street robbery. He then ran away leaving the victim, who was left with "mental scars", on the floor.

Stephen Jones

The recycling firm boss was jailed after a worker with a "heart of gold" died in an horrific baling machine accident. Jones, 60, was responsible for the death of Norman Butler at Recycling Cymru Ltd in Kinmel Bay in a machine which was "primed and ready to kill", said a judge.

It was heard that Mr Butler, 60, of Prestatyn, had climbed up a conveyor belt, used for taking waste cardboard into a container at the top, where staff would go to dislodge a blockage. He was later found at the bottom of a connecting chute in a compaction chamber. His left foot had been severed at the ankle and he died from massive blood loss at the site on the Tir Llwyd industrial estate on November 30, 2017. Read the full story here.

Viktor Nazera

The painter and decorator who was transported to Wales was found by police at a cannabis factory with more than 2,000 plants with a potential value of £1m. Also found were various items used to grow cannabis including filters, lights, and fans. The 43-year-old was arrested by police after trying to flee from a unit at an industrial estate in Cardiff when officers from South Wales Police's organised crime group carried out a raid.

Leon John

The serial disqualified driver drove in excess of 100mph during a number of police chases and crashed into a central reservation as officers tried to box him in. On another occasion he was found to be under the influence of cocaine while driving.

The 32-year-old, of Caerphilly, drove dangerously several times on roads in south Wales and his attempts to avoid police were caught on dashcam footage. He also failed to provide blood samples due to fear of needles, claiming to officers: "I don't drink or do drugs".

Abbas Al-Sulaimawi

The teenager was one of those arrested in Swansea's Victoria Park by police investigating cocaine dealers who were brazenly operating from a bench in the popular park. As patrolling police watched five drug deals were conducted before backup arrived and they were able to swoop on the Class A traffickers.

It was the third time in a matter of months Al-Sulaimawi had been caught dealing drugs in Swansea. On the previous two occasions he had been questioned then released. A judge said decent people living in the city had to put up with dealers on their streets and even in the parks, branding such behaviour "disgraceful".

Louis Misfud

The knife-wielding thief was caught stealing clothes from baby shop Mamas and Papas and swung his bladed weapon at a man who tried to stop him from leaving. The defendant was on bail at the time having previously been found in possession of a knife. The 41-year-old brandished his knife towards Philip Barber at the Mamas and Papas store in Cardiff after he saw the defendant placing items in his rucksack. Mr Barber's eyes met with those of the thief and Misfud started panicking.

Garyn King

The intoxicated man stabbed his friend in the face with a cutlery knife after wetting himself and passing out in his bed. The victim jumped out of a bedroom window to escape his friend for fear he would be stabbed again.

King, 25, had previously thrown a dining table at Luke Lewis before smashing up his home in Maesteg, Bridgend, in the early hours of the morning. Despite being friends for more than 20 years Mr Lewis said he feared for his life in the company of the defendant and later told police he had "never been so scared in his life".

Lewis Haines

The cheating dad who strangled a teenage girl at a secluded beauty spot because she refused to have sex with him was told to "rot in hell" by her grieving relatives as he was handed a life sentence. Haines had spotted Lily Sullivan, 18, while on a night out in Pembroke but had been told "she's far too young for you" and reminded by a friend that he had a girlfriend.

The 31-year-old was later seen walking with Miss Sullivan towards Mill Pond – a dark and secluded freshwater reservoir in the town – after they had been seen kissing. But Miss Sullivan, who was due to be picked up by her mum and had called her to say she was on her way, was strangled to death when she refused the advances of predatory Haines. He then dumped her body in the reservoir.

Joshua Carney

The depraved 28-year-old raped a teenage girl in her own home while her mother, whom he had already raped, was forced to watch. He forced his way into the home of his two victims on March 1, 2022, just five days after being released on licence for a spate of burglaries in 2017. You can read more here.

Hefin Parker and Dean Jones

The two thugs who call themselves the "Aber Murder Crew" subjected a man to hours of sadistic assaults in which they repeatedly beat him unconscious before bringing him around so they could attack him again. Parker and Jones then discussed dumping the injured man on the beach so the tide could wash him away and talked about a friend with a van who could help them dispose of his body. After the incident the defendants then bragged and joked to their friends about what they had done to their victim. Sending Parker and Jones to prison a judge said he had no doubt they should be rightly categorised as dangerous offenders who posed a risk of causing harm to the public.

Thomas Harries and Shane Palethorpe

The two masked robbers armed with a hammer and an axe ambushed a woman and tried to steal her phone. Palethorpe and Harries were laying in wait for their victim as she emerged from a flat and attacked her before chasing her dad. However during the incident they were seen to be unsteady on their feet and they left a trail of clues behind them prompting the barrister of one of the defendants to say the offence "could not have been carried out by a more incompetent pair of robbers".

Anthony Edwards

The drunken man carrying knives and a hammer abused and threatened railway station staff after being refused travel. Edwards was seen "staggering" around the concourse of the station shortly before 8am and due to his level of intoxication was told he would not be allowed to take a train. He responded by forcing his way through the barriers and boarding a number of trains before unleashing a tirade of abuse and threats against staff.

Ryan Sexon and Jack Finn

When police raided an Airbnb rental property in Swansea they found the heroin and crack dealers trying to flush their drugs phone down the toilet. Sexon and Finn were involved in a so-called county lines drug dealing operation and had already built up a "substantial client base" in the city before officers kicked the door down. As well as the drug dealing phone – found cracked and waterlogged on the bathroom floor – officers recovered Class A drugs, weighing scales, and more than £13,000 in cash.

Christian Allen

The burglar caught sneaking around in a hotel in the dead of night bit the night porter who tried to detain him. Allen had already stolen bank cards and the keys to the manager's Mercedes when he was caught behind the bar of the business. He bit the hotel's night porter and fled from the hotel but when he returned shortly afterwards to help himself to the vehicle the police were waiting for him.

Drugs gang

The family from the south of England moved to an isolated house in west Wales so they could set up a huge cannabis factory. Linda McCann, her husband Edward, and son Daniel moved from Hampshire to a Carmarthenshire house with a large barn which had been carefully chosen as a suitable base for their business.

There the family set and ran an "industrial-scale" drugs operation not only producing huge quantities of herbal cannabis but also cannabis oil and cannabis edibles such as cannabis-infused chocolate. To help with the business they recruited local men Jack Whittock and Justin Liles. Read how long they got sentenced to here.

Jody Oliver

The callous conman was leading two separate "fantasy lives", telling his wife he was a successful businessman and his fiancé he was a captain of a luxury cruise ship. Oliver would live with his wife and children during the week then with his partner – a man he had met on a dating website – at the weekends using the name Jonathan.

Thomas Cockings

He bit a young boy on the chest after losing his temper then lied about having done it during an epileptic fit. Cockings picked up his young victim after the boy had gone near his dog and sank his teeth into him. He then told his young victim to lie to his mum when he got home and say he had been hit by a ball while playing.

Redd Hanford

The driver who has never passed a test raced through residential streets at speeds touching 70mph before jumping a red light and crashing into a Land Rover. The innocent motorist that Hanford smashed into suffered whiplash injuries and bruising while the defendant was left badly injured with a broken leg and hips and a punctured lung.

Donna Seldon

The cocaine dealer boasted about the quality of the drug she was selling, telling one customer: "It ain't no pub grub – top stuff." Seldon began by looking after a so-called drugs line for a friend who was involved in Class A dealing before a falling out between the pair saw her keeping the phone for herself. It is thought Seldon's former friend then tipped off the police about her dealing activities and about the cannabis plants growing in her loft.

Matthew Bell

A woman was flung over a garden wall after the motorcycle she was travelling on was smashed into by the drug-driver who was overtaking a van on a "ridiculous" bend in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. Bell, 49, of Glan Tywi Uchaf in Ferryside, was driving his Chevrolet car on the road when he decided to overtake a Transit van. As he did so a Yamaha motorcycle was travelling in the opposite direction. The Chevrolet smashed directly into the motorcycle, which was being ridden by a 59-year-old man with his 55-year-old wife sat behind him as a passenger. The male rider suffered a triple open fracture of his femur, with bones protruding from the skin, and suffered severe blood loss which meant he required five pints of blood in hospital.

Nicky Griffiths

The inmate being held on remand in prison tried to set fire to his cell as a "cry for help",. Griffiths used a vape to start the blaze in the cell at HMP Swansea which he was sharing with another prisoner. Thanks to the swift actions of staff the fire was extinguished before anyone was hurt.

Margaret Buckley

A "highly respected" clerk at a Welsh town council was jailed after defrauding her employer of more than £230,000. Buckley conned councillors who signed blank cheques which she then used to pay herself, her daughter, a church, and its flower group.

The 76-year-old started as a deputy clerk at Maesteg Town Council in 2003 before being promoted to clerk in 2016 when her predecessor retired. She held the position until 2020 when she resigned.

James Hudd

A family's life has been "turned upside-down" by a violent street attack which left a husband, father, and grandfather with brain injuries. The victim was attacked during "chaotic" scenes in Swansea city centre as cousins Hudd and William Thomas fought with members of his family. During the brawl Hudd punched the man to the ground leading to a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain, and a stroke.

Darren Deacon

The talented young rugby player whose dreams of playing the game were dashed by a serious injury later descended into drug use and then dealing. Deacon was caught by undercover police officers who saw him selling crack cocaine to users on the streets near his deceased grandfather's house where he was living at the time. Inside the property police later found a stash of Class A drugs worth £9,000.

Tammy Vandenberg

Police found almost 150 ready-to-sell deals of crack cocaine and heroin hidden in a washing machine. Officers had gone to the flat in Swansea to conduct a check on the tenant following concerns about her welfare. Police found the person they were looking for – Vandenberg – along with a man from Birmingham and more than £2,400 of Class A drugs concealed in the detergent drawer of the washer.

Joshua Gillatt

The driver wanted by the police raced through residential streets at breakneck speeds before crashing outside a school and running off. Gillatt sped over speed bumps, drove on the wrong side of the road, overtook cars dangerously, and went though a T-junction without stopping as he tried to get away from the pursuing officer. Police eventually called off the chase because of the risks to the public posed by his driving.

Carter Munroe

Munroe glassed his former girlfriend in the face in a busy pub leaving her with a scar on her forehead. It was the second time in a matter of months he had attacked the woman. The first assault saw him headbutting her in the street after becoming angry that she was standing too close to a man in a queue for a bar.

Gareth Mann

He was jailed after he was found with cocaine, heroin, and other drugs worth thousands of pounds in his house. Police executed a warrant at the home of the 46-year-old, of Bunkers Hill, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, and inside he was found to have controlled drugs including heroin, cocaine, cannabis, morphine, pregabalin, buprenorphine, and diazepam with a combined street value of £3,660.

Terrance Tennant

He has a long history of violence and domestic abuse and turned up at the home of one of his former victims just weeks after getting out of prison. Tennant was jailed for five years and eight months in 2017 for a string of assaults and other offences including repeatedly punching, stamping on, and throttling one of his four girlfriends. He was also made the subject of an indefinite restraining order banning him from contacting her. He is now back behind bars. Read more here.

Mark Harris

Harris has a long history of using violence, including against partners, and was branded a "woman-beater" by a judge. He struck his partner across the face during a cocaine-fuelled argument leaving her with a swollen and bruised eye. The defendant had been facing a string of assault allegations in regard to the woman but the alleged victim in those incidents said she would not cooperate with the prosecution and the charges were subsequently dropped.

Christopher Trotman

The jealous man hid a tracking device on his former partner's car so he could monitor her movements at all times. The spying on her whereabouts was part of Trotman's "controlling" behaviour which included constant phone calls asking what she was doing and offering to pay her money so she would give up her bar job and not come into contact with other men.

Karl Taylor

A terrified woman hid in her neighbour's garden and outbuilding listening to her jealous and drunk ex-partner tell her he was going to "slaughter" her and her family. Shanice Raven was frozen in terror at her home in Cardiff while Taylor rummaged through knives in her kitchen and also told her he was going to "light up" her house in a drawn-out act of rage.

Lee Mason

The cheeky burglar caught by police after sneaking into a sleeping woman's house told officers to call his solicitor. The victim was dozing on the sofa in her lounge when she awoke to find intruder Mason in the room beside her. The woman's young son was just yards away in another room playing a computer game and was unaware of the intruder. Swansea Crown Court heard the mother and son have been left feeling worried about their security in their own home.

Zackery Griffiths

The spice dealer tried to flee through the window of a flat as police forced their way in through the front door. Griffiths was caught with more than 100 deals of a synthetic cannabinoid and a phone full of messages about buying and selling the drug. Some of the conversations on the phone were between the defendant and a dealer who was apparently working for him in which Griffiths told his contact to work hard that week and "slam the packs out".

Jolyon Smith

He stamped on his girlfriend's face and broke her jaw leaving the woman with permanent nerve damage. The alarm was raised by a member of the public who called at the block of flats where Smith lived and saw blood splattered on a front door. Sending Smith to prison a judge told him his behaviour had been "shameful and utterly despicable" and his attack had caused his victim "sickening injuries".

Alexander Walker

The McDonald's customer brandished a large kitchen knife and threatened and intimidated staff and fellow customers after being refused service. Walker turned up on foot at the burger joint in the early hours of the morning demanding food but only the drive-thru service was open. When told he couldn't be served he produced a knife and tried to get other people in the car park to buy a burger for him before walking up to the drive-thru service windows and attacking the plastic screens with the blade.

Gareth Curnow

The driver rammed a police car before climbing into the back seat of his SUV and pretending someone else had been behind the wheel. Curnow had led police on a high-speed chase through Swansea before ramming a police vehicle as he tried to flee. The 42-year-old crashed moments later then clambered into the back of the car he was driving and tried to con cops that the real driver had fled on foot.

Anthony Rosser

The career criminal committed his 23rd burglary when he broke into a student house in the middle of the day and stole bank cards. Rosser quickly used the stolen pcard in local corner shops but his purchases were to be his downfall as a police officer who viewed CCTV from the stores recognised the 61-year-old the following day as he walked near Swansea beach and arrested him.

Liam Jonathan

He was jailed for two years after robbing a pensioner. The 33-year-old pickpocketed Glyn Jones as the 79-year-old walked along Hopkinstown Road in Pontypridd.

South Wales Police said Jonathan pushed Mr Jones from behind and slipped his hand into the pensioner's pockets, swiping his cards and mobile phone. Mr Jones was left "upset and shocked", said a force spokesman.

Luke Paterson

The teen was jailed after two knifepoint robberies. The 18-year-old made threats with a blade to steal a motorbike and shoulder bag.

Paterson, formerly of Blaenclydach Street in Grangetown, approached a 17-year-old boy on Boxing Day 2021 in South Park Road, Splott. He threatened to stab the boy if he did not hand over his Yamaha motorbike. The bike was stolen and later found damaged.

Jack Watson

The jealous man stormed into his ex-girlfriend's home and attacked her and another man while they laid in bed. Watson, who had a history of assaulting his former partners, broke into Katie David's flat and punched and stamped on her head while calling her a "slag".

Rhys Thompson

A young woman who was just 17 years old when she met a man she would fall in love with but went on to abuse her and beat her in fits of jealous rage gave a heartbreaking statement in court. The victim's statement was read to the court as Thompson, 28, was sentenced for throwing her down the stairs and slapping her round the face after accusing her of cheating with other men. He later told her: "I wish I killed you."

Matthew Bateman

The trusted school IT worker downloaded and shared vile photos and videos of children as young as two being sexually abused. Bateman's online activities only came to light after he arranged to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl for a drive in his car and a burger. In fact the defendant was communicating with members of a so-called paedophile hunter group who confronted him at the agreed rendezvous point in a local park.

Caeran Roderick

The violent robber befriended a man on a night out and led him to an isolated area before putting him in a headlock and brandishing a knife. Roderick, then 19, took Luke Long's wallet and phone during the frightening incident which took place in Cardiff in the early hours of the morning. The victim was left "shocked and upset" by the robbery and said he "couldn't believe what was happening to him."

Andrew Lock

The thug carried out a "sustained" assault on his partner of three weeks before using racial insults towards a police officer who arrested him. A court heard that large amounts of blood were discovered at the scene of the assault.

The 37-year-old caused actual bodily harm to his ex-girlfriend, Caitlin Evans, at her home in Caerau, Bridgend, on the evening of February 23. The defendant had been drinking and was found in possession of amphetamine and cannabis when he was subsequently arrested by police.

Barry McElroy

He was pulled over by police in west Wales, strip-searched, and found to have heroin hidden in his underpants. McElroy was stopped by officers from Dyfed-Powys Police on October 15, 2021, near the Cleddau Bridge in Pembrokeshire. When he was arrested and taken into custody the 47-year-old was strip-searched and a black pouch was located in his underwear.

Stephanie Knight and Matthew Walters

The cannabis-dealing couple were caught after eagle-eyed police officers saw customers coming and going from their Swansea Valley flat. When the property was raided officers found a haul of cannabis worth almost £11,000 along with phone messages which showed the drug was being bought and sold in kilo quantities.

Matthew Barnes

He was under the influence of magic mushrooms and Xanax when he headbutted a police officer and punched her repeatedly in the face. He also grabbed another officer by her hair and shook her. Concerns were raised after Barnes was seen acting "bizarrely and erratically" in Ebbw Vale singing the words "Dog" and "God" and appearing to be confused.

Joshua Leatherland

The petulant thug punched and stamped on the head of a hotel receptionist after being told there were no rooms available. He also assaulted a woman who had attended the hotel with him.

Leatherland, 23, assaulted receptionist Thundiyil Abraham at the Ibis hotel in Newport in the early hours of July 16, 2022, when he became angry when told there was no vacancy. He left Mr Abraham with severe injuries including a hairline fracture to his rib which was said to be extremely painful.

Mark Harrigan

The paedophile sexually assaulted a young girl who didn't report the abuse she suffered until she was an adult. He was also found in possession of indecent images of children and extreme pornographic images.

Harrigan, 40, of Cardiff, was arrested after the victim reported the matter to police in 2021 and electronic items were seized. Read what he was sentenced to here.

Neil Ahearne

The grandfather sent a photo of his penis to someone he thought was an 11-year-old girl and asked if she "wanted to be f***** by a paedo c***". When police raided his home they found phones containing indecent images of children and extreme pornography.

The 58-year-old, of Gilfach Goch, told the girl, who was in reality a decoy, that he enjoyed having sex with young girls and wanted to meet up with her. He used an account under the name of Danny Smith when he made contact with the decoy, named Dani, who told him she was 11 years old and still at school.

Jason Maguire and Oliver Pendleton

The two conmen who ran a fake modelling agency were said to have ruined the lives of several women after exposing intimate pictures of them online for cash. The victims had no idea they were involved in a scam until it was too late.

Pendleton, of Clwyd Avenue in Abergele, admitted to fraud as well as having a computer to perform function with intent to secure authorised access. Maguire, of Caradoc Road in Prestatyn, faced the same charges alongside 11 breaches of his sexual harm prevention order and six charges of creating indecent images.

Jonathan Sutton

He launched a series of attacks on his partner during which he ripped off her clothes before throwing her out of the flat in acts designed to degrade and humiliate the woman. On one occasion Sutton's victim was left wandering the streets shoeless and in a torn dress and on another was forced to wrap herself in a bed sheet as she walked to the shops. Sending the 41-year-old defendant to prison a judge told him he had treated his partner "like a punchbag".

Ashley Fulford and Kallum Owen

The two cocaine dealers were caught when police stopped the van they were dealing from and have been ordered to hand over the profits of their business – but while one must cough up almost £11,000 his co-accused only has £91 to his name. Swansea men Fulford and Owen were caught red-handed selling the Class A drug to a user on a Swansea street and a search of the pair's vehicle found another two-dozen ready-to-sell deals in the glovebox. The defendants' homes were then searched.

Bryan Alex Hosking

The drunken man threw a kitten across a room and then threatened to kill a woman with a kitchen knife. Hosking was at a flat with his female victim and a friend. All three had been drinking and at a certain point the woman, Megan Tucker, fell asleep with a kitten on her chest. She woke to find Hosking picking up the kitten and tossing it across the room. She said that he looked like he was going to bite the animal's head and she proceeded to grab it from him.

Phillip Bowler

The learner driver claimed he sped away from police because it was Halloween and he was spooked by the blue lights on their patrol car. Bowler raced through multiple red traffic lights as he drove off from officers and narrowly missed a pedestrian who was crossing the road in front of him. While being investigated for those matters the defendant went on to headbutt a woman in the face then arm himself with a kitchen knife during a confrontation outside his house.

Leo Bailey

The teen, who was involved with a "professional and sophisticated" gang which stole cars from across south Wales, went on the run from police for 15 months. Despite apparently remaining in Swansea during his time at large Bailey avoided being arrested for more than a year until the car he was travelling in crashed and police were called to the scene. A judge said he wanted an explanation from a senior officer as to why police seemingly did "little or nothing" to find the defendant during his time on the run.

Corey Fethney

The young plasterer who turned to selling cocaine during the Covid pandemic referred to himself as "the boss" and had a number of people working for him in the drug trade. Fethney continued dealing in the Class A drug even after police raided the house he shared with his mother and seized his phones – simply acquiring a new mobile and carrying on.

Charlie John-Downs

The talented young rugby player became a "runner" for a heroin and crack dealer after running up debts through his use of cannabis. Teenager John-Downs was told by his supplier that he could pay off what he owed if he became a street dealer delivering the Class A drugs to users and collecting cash. But the 19-year-old defendant was photographed carrying out a deal and when officers raided his flat they found more than 60 ready-to-go heroin and crack deals, weighing scales, and £1,000 in cash.

Amir Khan

The motorist with a "dreadful" record for drink-driving and driving while disqualified led police on a chase through residential streets after attending a popular carnival. Khan drove through red traffic lights, went the wrong way down one-way streets, and forced other drivers to take evasive action as he tried to get away from pursuing officers. When the 28-year-old was eventually stopped he was found to be three times over the drink-drive limit.

Ricky Morris

He committed a "vicious and unprovoked" assault on the mother of his five-week-old son in the middle of Swansea city centre because he didn't like the name she had chosen for the child. Morris, 31, approached his former partner Jodie Harris as she was out shopping with the child in a pushchair.

Paul Jones

He was caught with £3,000 worth of heroin in his dressing gown when police raided his house. Officers also found weighing scales containing traces of both heroin and cocaine, phones full of incriminating messages, £940 in cash, and a stash of bicarbonate of soda - a key ingredient in converting cocaine into crack.

Luke James

The convicted sex offender showed a young girl a video on his phone of an animated singing penis. James had met the girl's mum on a dating website and went to a park with the family but had not disclosed his previous conviction for sexually assaulting a teenager. As part of the suspended sentence for that assault he is banned from having any contact with females under 16 unless their parent or guardian knows about his past.

Samuel Urch

Burglars stabbed a woman's bed and scrawled the word "sorry" on the wall above it. Police caught one of the culprits, Samuel Urch, after finding his blood in the Cardiff flat. The 30-year-old and his accomplices stole around £1,500 worth of items from the ground-floor home in The Walk, Roath. Prosecutor Eugene Egan told Cardiff Crown Court: "Mercifully the two female students living in the flat were not there at the time."

Daniel Croft and Joshua Morris

A man was left bleeding heavily from the head in a Swansea doorway after a brutal early-morning attack carried out by the two men – one of whom was armed with a metal bar. The incident happened outside the YMCA building in Swansea city centre on the morning of July 10, 2022.

At around 5am an argument broke out between Croft, Morris, and their victim Darren Thomas. After a verbal altercation Mr Thomas was then assaulted by both men and stamped on and kicked during the ordeal. A clearly injured Mr Thomas staggered to his feet but a short time later, on another street nearby the YMCA building, another attack took place.

Lawrence Goldsworthy

The "Jack the Lad" wanted in Manchester following a high-speed police pursuit and found hiding half-naked in his dad's wardrobe in west Wales managed to escape after police took off his handcuffs. Goldsworthy fled from the house and was on the run from the authorities for nine days before before being caught back in Manchester. He was returned to Pembrokeshire where he flooded his cell by blocking the toilet.

Christopher Burford

He photographed himself as he sexually abused and assaulted a baby. Burford's vile activities were uncovered by police who initially suspected he had been downloading indecent images from the internet and seized his mobile phone for analysis. The 45-year-old has now been given an extended sentence as a dangerous offender.

Rahman Hafeez

The accountancy student with a £1,000-a-month cocaine habit turned to selling the drug to fund his use. Hafeez's family were unaware of his addiction to the drug and of his dealing operation which he ran from his bedroom in the family home alongside doing his university work.

Jake Fry

He used cannabis to help his ailing mental health but ended up dealing large quantities of the drug after his habit got out of control. Fry, who was first exposed to cannabis at the age of 10, was arrested by police earlier this year when officers received a tip-off that the 29-year-old was selling drugs.

Ryan Martin

The learner driver rang his girlfriend during an 80mph chase with police and told her: "I'm driving your car." Martin raced off from police after they signalled for him to stop sparking a chase which would go on for around 12 miles and would see him reaching speeds of 80mph, going the wrong way around roundabouts, and taking blind bends on the wrong side of the road. The pursuit came to an end when a stinger device was used to puncture the car tyres.

Lee Mills

The paedophile sent "vile" messages to a 12-year-old girl and asked if she wanted to meet up while using a computer at a public library. When asked why he sent the message and breached a court order he said he was "bored".

The 40-year-old was visited at his Cardiff home after police received information he had been contacting a young girl. The defendant had attended Cardiff Central Library and used a computer to access a "team chat".

Justin Howe

The stalker made a former partner's life a "misery" after incessantly messaging her from multiple phone numbers and following her. The victim became so paranoid and fearful she kept a knife by her bed.

Howe, 43, from Newport, began a relationship with a woman through a dating app but she put an end to it, worrying they were moving too quickly. During the relationship the victim told Howe about her previous partner who was physically abusive towards her and he kept notes on his phone about their conversations.

Andrew Garratt

The paedophile told who he thought was a 13-year-old girl he "wanted to marry her" and said he was sexually attracted to her. When he found out he had been talking to a decoy he claimed he was lonely following the death of his partner.

The pensioner, of Cardiff, began talking to a teenage girl after sending her a friend request on Facebook. He said: "Hi, I'm Andy from Cardiff in Wales, UK. How are you doing?"

Awdear Khaledi

The hospital patient bit a nurse on the arm after he protested at being moved to a ward for people with Covid-19. As a result of the bite the nurse needed injections to prevent tetanus and hepatitis. Khaledi, 23, carried out the vicious assault while a patient at Llandough Hospital on May 4, 2020.

Kevin Leigh

The prolific thief targeted vulnerable elderly women in distraction burglaries which left one of his victim's life shattered. The "heartless" burglar carried out the thefts to feed his drug addiction.

The 58-year-old barged his way into women's houses for tenuous reasons and asked them to change bank notes which allowed him to see where they kept money. Upon seeing where cash was being kept the defendant would ask for a glass of water and run off with the stash.

Matthew Brown

The father was found with more than £11,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis in the home he shared with his pregnant wife and daughter. He was also found with mobile phones which contained messages relating to drug dealing.

Brown's home in Tredegar was raided by police who found various bags containing drugs. In total they found 65.6g of cocaine worth up to £6,240 and 434g of cannabis worth up to £5,420.

Lyn Kemp

The grandfather found with 1,000 child abuse images also photoshopped children's heads onto sexual photos. And officers also discovered that the vile 75-year-old had covertly taken photos of a teen sunbathing in her bikini.

Kemp's home in Cardiff was raided by police after receiving intelligence images of children had been uploaded to his Skype account. Upon being told what he was accused of, he said: "Yes I know, I have seen it on my computer".

Declan Hatton

Hatton thought he was talking to a 12-year-old girl when he asked her to masturbate herself but he was unknowingly talking to an undercover police officer. He later attempted to meet the girl but was arrested upon arriving at the meeting place.

He began speaking to a decoy on the Kik messenger app with a profile set up under a false name and false location and claimed to be 19 years old. He was in reality aged 30.

Oakley Nunes

The drug dealer threw a bag of crack cocaine out of a car window when stopped by police but the drugs were later found after his phone was examined. He was also found in possession of cannabis and £1,300 made from drug dealing.

Nunes, 20, was the passenger in an Audi car when it was stopped by police following a short pursuit in Newport. Both the driver and the defendant were searched and a Nokia phone belonging to Nunes was seized.

Michael Ellaway

The prolific car thief broke into someone's home and stole their company car which was never recovered. A judge said his behaviour had "the hallmarks of bullying".

The 38-year-old took car keys from the home of Thomas Bush in Cardiff and took his Virgin Media-owned Ford Focus. Two hours later he was seen at his home in Cowbridge Road East, in Canton, where he parked and told people it was his uncle's car.

Liam Caddick-Cairns

The 25-year-old and his partner Tiffany Taylor were found with cocaine and cannabis as well as a phone containing messages related to the supply of Class A drugs after being pulled over by police. The boyfriend was the primary dealer while the girlfriend drove him and "turned a blind eye", a court heard.

Robin Griffiths

The ex-solider verbally abused and assaulted a traffic officer after members of the public alerted police to a suspected drink-driver. The violent outburst left the officer considering his "thankless" career with the force. Griffiths was on a suspended sentence at the time of the assault for holding an imitation gun to his partner's head and threatened to kill her after "gorging on vodka and cocaine".

Tyler Issacs

The jealous and obsessive man subjected a former partner to a "relentless" campaign of abuse, threats and intimidation after she ended their relationship. Issacs was subject to a restraining order after biting the woman on the face when he bombarded her with vile text messages and calls during which he repeatedly said he would kill her. He also turned up at her home forcing her to flee to safety with her children and on one occasion tracked her down to a pub where she was socialising with friends and assaulted her.

Dalton Raffell

The drug dealer who ran from a car was found with heroin and crack cocaine after he was hunted down and bitten by a sniffer dog. The heroin was discovered after a man found a McDonald's bag containing the drugs on his drive

The 21-year-old was being driven in a car in Rhymney, Caerphilly, at 11.35pm on October 30, 2020, while being followed by police. He jumped out of the car from a rear door as it was moving, along with two other men with the driver of the Skoda Octavia left behind.

Mark Saunders

Parents had to rescue their son from their burning home after the intoxicated arsonist set fire to their front door. The family thought they were "going to die" but were left unscathed after a neighbour alerted them and contained the fire with a hose.

Saunders, 36, stole a petrol can and poured it on the door of a house in Caerphilly on January 24 before setting it alight. The occupants Joshua Callaghan and Sinead Burgwyn and their seven-year-old son woke to find their home covered in smoke.

Denzil Goodridge

Goodridge smashed the front window of an ex-partner's house and pointed a realistic-looking Glock handgun at the terrified woman and her daughter inside. He was then seen to take aim at the people in room causing them to flee to the rear of the property in terror. The firearm has never been found by police and its whereabouts remain unknown.

The defendant's barrister told the court the incident was an "aberration" for his 39-year-old client who he said had many positive qualities and was a respected member of his local boxing club.

Jayne Jones

The 56-year-old made crack cocaine in the kitchen of her home and sold it to addicts through the window. When police raided Jones' house they found a stash of high-purity cocaine worth almost £9,000 along with rocks of crack, dealer's lists, and a burner phone. Sending her to prison a judge told her that Class A drugs destroy lives and she said the amount of cocaine found at Jones' home gave a "snapshot" of the scale of the defendant's operation.

Michael Stanley

The 33-year-old was under the influence of drugs while driving when he crashed into a car and injured a four-year-old boy and his family. Stanley collided with an oncoming car after he overtook one vehicle on a bend the A493 near Tywyn. He did not have a driving licence and had been driving up to 90mph on a rural road with a 60mph limit.

Steven Thomas

The driver pursued and deliberately knocked down a cyclist leaving the biker paralysed from the waist down. Thomas was at the wheel of a stolen SUV when he ran down Kyler Brophy outside a Swansea supermarket before running off. He was initially charged with attempted murder for the shocking incident which was seemingly sparked by a "grievance" between the two men.

Debra Robbins

The trusted office manager with a small company spent years stealing tens of thousands of pounds from the firm. Robbins was responsible for paying wages and suppliers, doing the accounts, filing, and general admin but abused her position to help herself to more than £63,000. The thievery and fraud was only discovered when she left her job and a replacement found the books did not balance.

Dalton Jefferies

He forced an eight-year-old girl to drink washing-up liquid and tried to strangle her mother. Jefferies caused his former partner physical and psychological harm by demeaning her in front of her friends and banning her from taking her phone with her when she went out of the room. The 22-year-old also tried to strangle the woman and rubbed himself with sandpaper before blaming her for making him do it.

Kyle Parsons and Ludvik Rac

The teenage passengers repeatedly stabbed a taxi driver and left him lying in a pool of blood in the street. Only emergency first aid by a man living nearby and the swift action of paramedics and doctors saved the victim's life.

One of the teen thugs went on to boast to friends and family about having stabbed the man and even posted a video of himself rapping about the attack on Instagram. The taxi driver later said that as he lay bleeding on the ground waiting for the ambulance to come he thought he was going to die. Read what sentence they got here.

Ricci Davies

The pub drinker punched a woman to the nose and wielded a knife on a night out fuelled by cocaine and Xanax. Davies visited the Pontlottyn Wetherspoon pub in Abertillery at about 10.30pm on July 16, asking other customers: "Where's the fight?" He was behaving in a "rowdy manner" and sweating "profusely" according to a witness, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

Jennifer Nicklin and Alexandra Fanthome

The two women falsely imprisoned a teenager after claiming he had stolen money from them before they stabbed his hand and discussed killing him. Swansea Crown Court heard how Fanthome and Nicklin invited the teen back to take crack cocaine and cannabis together at their home in Ammanford. Read how long they were sentenced to here.

Georgie Cox

The despicable robber took a bike and an iPhone from a man with learning difficulties who he threatened to punch in the face. Then after stealing the phone he smashed it to smithereens.

The 20-year-old targeted his victim, who has a speech and hearing impediment, having known about his disabilities. He cornered him in an in Brackla, Bridgend, and even approached the victim's friend and told him of his plan to rob him.

Tyler O'Connell and Caine Wells

A woman's 50th birthday party at a rugby club ended in a mass brawl which saw her son stamping on a man's leg after he had been knocked unconscious by another. The victim broke his leg which required surgery and he now walks with crutches.

Wells, 30, and O'Connell, 29, wounded their victim Dean Lock at Barry Rugby Club on February 29, 2020, after an altercation broke out in the foyer. Footage of the incident was played during a sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court. Get more details here.

Natalie Collins

Collins stabbed herself and then pointed the finger of blame at her former partner leading to his arrest by armed police. The self-inflicted violence and false report of a serious assault was part of a campaign of harassment carried out by Collins against her ex-boyfriend and his new partner.

Bilal Zawi

The restaurant worker launched a campaign of harassment against his boss and accused him of running a brothel following a row over work documents. Zawi went on to attack his housemate with a kitchen knife leaving his victim with scratches on his face. Swansea Crown Court heard the 21-year-old had a traumatic upbringing in Libya during that country's civil war before crossing to Italy by boat as a teenager then making his way through Switzerland, Germany, and France before getting to the UK.

Keith Bold

The "committed paedophile" engaged in vile online conversations about child rape and sent indecent images to an undercover police officer. Bold, who also uses the name Stuart Jones, met what he believed was a fellow paedophile on a Russian website where users upload and share images of child sex abuse. Bold was using the name Stefan Vilchek during the exchanges but the officer suspected it was in fact the defendant who is a registered sex offender with a long history of online sexual offences involving children. Part of that offending saw the 59-year-old making numerous trips to Ukraine.

Kyle Jones

The violent bully strangled his pregnant partner and placed her father in a chokehold after wrongly accusing her of cheating on him. After their child was born he hit his former partner in the face and sent foul-mouthed messages to her.

The 25-year-old assaulted his teenage ex-girlfriend at her home near Mountain Ash when she was eight months pregnant. He later assaulted her father as he tried to protect his daughter, a sentencing heard. Read the sentence here.

Jordan Gingell

The drunk man hit a car passenger with a pint glass after being refused a lift. The 26-year-old had been "drinking for some time" when he approached a car and asked for a lift before hitting the man in the passenger seat with a pint glass he had been holding. Gingell was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting causing grievous bodily harm without intent.

Ryan Lewis

He became angry over a noise complaint made about him by a neighbour and threatened to kill the person responsible while wielding a weapon. Swansea Crown Court heard how Ryan Lewis learned that he was to be fined after a neighbour, who lived within a shared housing building at Swansea's Penmaen Terrace run by Coastal Housing, lodged a complaint over noise coming from his property.

Umair Farooq

A woman was assaulted by a stranger who had let himself into her hotel room in a terrifying attack. Farooq made his victim and a friend "uncomfortable" by watching them in the hotel bar before getting access to her room and subjecting her to the terrifying assault while she slept. Read the sentence here.

Tyrrell Webbe

The teaching assistant found with almost £500 of cocaine claimed he was taking drugs to a friend's party but texts on his phone revealed he had been dealing. He was caught by police after he was seen throwing a package into a garden. The 32-year-old was spotted by police at 2am in Cardiff and upon seeing the police vehicle the defendant dropped something into a nearby garden. He was spoken to by police who recovered a zip-lock bag containing wraps of white powder.

Ian Wakeham

A love rival was stabbed by Wakeham with a kitchen knife after he revealed he was having an affair with his girlfriend. The fight spilled out into a communal area of a flat with a large crowd of neighbours witnessing the assault.

The 38-year-old wounded Darren Atkins with the weapon near a block of flats in Cardiff leaving the victim with six stab wounds. The incident came about when Wakeham was involved in an altercation with his then-girlfriend during which Mr Atkins arrived at the flat and told the defendant he had been sleeping with his partner.

Ethan Owen

The sexual deviant sent photos of himself holding his penis to a 12-year-old girl and threatened his probation officer saying he knew people who knew about her personal life. He also sent threatening sexual messages to a woman while pretending to be a school attendance officer.

The 28-year-old, from the Vale of Glamorgan, has a long history of sexual offences and has been made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for life. The first of the latest offences took place on November 28, 2021, when a woman discovered images of the defendant on her 12-year-old daughter's phone. Read his sentence here.

John Richards, Daniel O'Hara, and Richard Watkins

A conspiracy to supply cocaine worth up to £1.6m saw kilos of the Class A drug being trafficked from the West Midlands to south Wales. The operation involved parties communicating over Encrochat phones with couriers delivering the drugs and hundreds and thousands of pounds in cash.

John Richards, 39, led the south Wales end of the operation which saw him contact Daniel O'Hara, 47, who drove from the Midlands to Ross-on-Wye where Richard Watkins, 42, would pick up the drugs in exchange for cash. Between March and May 2020, 10.5kg of high-purity cocaine was sold to Richards and £320,000 was provided in exchange. Read the sentencing here.

Paul Allen

The paedophile raped and sexually abused a young boy and went on to sexually abuse another child after he was released on bail and under investigation. He was told by a judge he had an "insatiable interest" in child sex abuse.

Allen, 60, told his vulnerable victims not to tell anyone about the abuse otherwise they would get into trouble. The assaults left one victim suicidal and he attempted to take his own life by jumping off a bridge. Read the sentencing here.

Alex Preece

The known dealer sold heroin right in front of police near Cardiff city centre. Preece admitted selling the heroin to a user at Tyndall Street oblivious to the fact officers from South Wales Police were yards from him, Newport Crown Court heard.

Gary Rees

The dad carried out a "vindictive" attack on the van his self-employed son used for his work Gary Rees slashed the tyres of the vehicle and stabbed its seatbelts with scissors before stealing of equipment from the back. He went on to send a series of unpleasant messages to his daughter about the death of a loved one in breach of a restraining order.

Sending the 50-year-old Llanelli man to prison a judge warned him that if he continued to offend against his family in ways that put them in fear he could be slapped with a court order which banned him from going to certain areas of the town Read the sentencing here.

Jonathan Harris

The child sex offender hid his past to go on a caravanning holiday with a friend and her young son. Harris was also a regular visitor to the family's home including on occasions sleeping there overnight. However the 27-year-old is banned from having unsupervised contact with boys under 16 unless the child's parents know about his past conviction for causing a child to engage in sexual activity. Read his sentencing here.

Gary Fisher

The paedophile subjected a young boy to years of sickening sexual abuse. The victim suffered in silence for more than two decades until he heard that his abuser had been convicted of online child sex offences and he decided to go to the police to report what had happened to him as a youngster. Fisher has now been handed a 20-year extended sentence as a dangerous offender for the abuse his carried out on his young victim in the 1990s.

Tristan Levene

The drug dealer was caught with up to £23,000 of heroin and cocaine which he stored at his home. He had previously been jailed for more than three years for possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.

The 26-year-old was visited by police after they executed a warrant at his home in Barry but his mother was the only person at the property. A search carried out in the defendant's bedroom resulted in police finding rocks, cannabis bud, scales, phones, diazepam tablets, and a small amount of cash. Read the sentencing here.

Rowland Lea

The "steaming drunk" thug racially abused and attacked two bouncers after being thrown out of a bar. Lea threw punches and chairs before grabbing a metal pole and using it as a weapon – all the while shouting vile racial slurs. A recorder described the violence which played out in front of members of revellers on Swansea's busy Wind Street as a "disgraceful incident of public disorder".

Ashley Bevan and Siobhan Clayton

The thieves stole a man's moped and keys from the centre of Swansea and then rushed to his house and burgled it. Bevan and Clayton stashed the stolen machine then hopped in a taxi and went straight to their victim's home and broke in, helping themselves to jewellery, bank cards, and other items. Swansea Crown Court heard both the defendants' lives have been blighted by their abuse of drugs.

William Smith

The drug dealer was pulled over by police after a member of the public spotted him sniffing something in a supermarket car park. On the evening of September 8, 2022, police in Pembrokeshire stopped a Citroen van in Tenby shortly after 6.30pm. The driver, Smith, was asked to leave the vehicle by police before providing a drug swipe which returned positive results for cocaine and cannabis.

Scott Banks

The paedophile manipulated and threatened a young girl who he was subjecting to sex acts. Banks abused the child over a prolonged period before claiming that he loved her. Swansea Crown Court heard the offending has had a significant impact on the child leaving her suffering with anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder and leading her to struggle at school as well as to self-harm.

Keiron David

Police found drugs stashed in the bottom of a wardrobe and in a van when they searched a house in Swansea. Officers raided a house in Creswell Road along with two others in the Clase area of the city on the morning of April 30, 2021.

David, 22, was not at home at the time but his mother was. A search was carried out by police who found 28 bags of cannabis, weighing a total of 21g, hidden at the bottom of a wardrobe in David's bedroom.

George Tetzlaff

A burglar broke into a house and stole a new £1,000 designer Burberry bag which he gave to his girlfriend after an argument. Tetzlaff also stole documents including a passport along a laptop computer which held vital university course work.

Usman Khan

The drug dealer who was caught with cocaine by police on two occasions had "gone up in the world" in the drugs supply chain. He asked a judge not to send him to prison due to his role as a carer for his girlfriend. The 25-year-old was first arrested on September 14, 2019, when he was stopped by police in Cardiff Bay while the passenger of a BMW. He ran away from the car but was chased and found hiding in a garden. He was searched and found in possession of four bags containing 1.7g of cocaine, three bags containing 0.86g of cocaine, £1,110 in cash, digital scales, and counterfeit currency.

Gavin Willie

The London drug dealer caught doing 100mph on the M4 with £16,000 in cash, a large stash of drugs, and a pick axe handle in his car claimed he had visited Swansea to buy a dog. However messages found on Gavin Willie's phone showed he was involved in buying and selling cannabis in kilo quantities as well as in dealing directly to users. Sat beside Willie in the VW car was his partner Jemay Abdullah who helped him with his drug-dealing operation.

Matthew Scriven

He armed himself with a "fearsome-looking" kitchen knife and threatened to slit a neighbour's throat in front of her children. The terrifying early-evening incident saw police rush to the housing estate where it was playing out and draw their Taser stun guns.

Scriven's advocate told Cardiff Crown Court that the father-of-two had brandished the weapon to show he wasn't scared of the other family with whom he was in dispute. Sending the defendant to prison a judge said people carrying knives in public had become an epidemic worthy of a deterrent sentence.

Rhys Hall

Hall was drawn into cocaine dealing by his dad returned to supplying the drug to pay off his jailed father's debts. The 21-year-old has now joined his dad behind bars after resuming the drugs trade just a matter of months after being handed a suspended sentence. A judge said it was very sad to see the situation the defendant was in and he told him he had not only let himself down but his family too.

Paul Walters

The Swansea man felt unable to say no to a Liverpool drugs gang and ended up dealing more than eight kilos of heroin for them. Police came upon Walters by chance while carrying out a welfare check on other people living in the bedsit where the 66-year-old resided. The defendant volunteered to the officers that he had been working for a Liverpudlian drug dealer for a number of years.

Daniel Joseph

The drug dealer was wearing a balaclava when he tried to escape through a kitchen window after a house was raided by police. He and others were found in possession of heroin, cocaine, and cannabis.

The 22-year-old was in a house in Cardiff raided as part of an executed warrant. The defendant and two other men were searched resulting in the discovery of drugs and £1,835 in cash.

Anthony Kinsler

The paedophile sent videos of himself masturbating to who he thought was a 12-year-old boy. Upon his arrest he was found in possession of photos of child sex abuse including children as young as six.

Kinsler, 51, spoke to an online decoy pretending to be a 12-year-old boy named Charlie on messaging app Kik in May 2021. He made sexual comments during their conversations and when the decoy spoke about school he told him of fantasies of fondling him in a classroom and of having sex with the child in the school toilets. Read how long he was sentenced to here.

Matthew O'Donoghue

The "sexual predator" enticed a young girl into his car before driving her to a popular park, offering her cocaine, and then sexually assaulting her. When tracked down by police hours after the attack O'Donoghue claimed the schoolgirl was making a malicious complaint about him, saying he had been in a relationship for 12 years and had no reason to touch anyone else. Read how long he was sentenced to here.

Gary Matthews

The burglar broke into a Greggs bakery punched and strangled his former partner days after he was released from prison. He hit her so hard she fell back and hit her head on a coffee table.

The 35-year-old burgled a Greggs shop in Tredegar and stole £50 from charity boxes. He was caught escaping from the shop on CCTV.

Wayne Thomas

He breached a restraining order before knocking out four of his on-and-off former partner's teeth during an argument. The 46-year-old, of Monnow Way, Bettws, Newport, had been served a restraining order against his ex, but the pair re-entered a relationship following his release from custody, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

Simon Parks

In a shocking case Parks was sentenced to life for killing and sexually assaulting his mother-in-law after she refused to give him cigarettes. He later told a neighbour the victim was "a horrible b******" who had wound him up.

The 52-year-old brutally killed Mari O'Flynn who was found dead at her home in Newport. The emergency services had been called to the house at Leach Road, in Bettws, where Mrs O'Flynn's body was discovered, partially unclothed, with bruises on her face and neck. Read the full sentencing here.

Simon Draper

The van driver who used his phone on a busy dual carriageway seconds before knocking down and killing a cyclist was jailed for five years. Draper was accessing Facebook and Instagram on his mobile moments before ploughing into off-duty police sergeant Lynwen Thomas as she cycled back to her home in Carmarthen. The 42-year-old dad-of-four had accepted causing the crash but claimed he was not driving dangerously and insisted that it was his 13-month-old son who had been on his phone and accessing apps at the time of the crash.

David and Kim Crapper

The "monstrous" couple raped and sexually abused a young girl despite her crying and protestations. They convinced her their treatment of her was "normal" and repeatedly took advantage of her.

The pair, of Barry, reached levels of "depravity" in their abuse of the child. The offences came to light when the victim told a friend about the husband and wife's behaviour and they were arrested by police. Sentencing the pair Judge David Wynn Morgan said: "It's hard to think of a more monstrous [offence]."

Saif Hussain

A young girl was forced to call the police as Hussain raped her mother after forcing his way into the family home. Hussain didn't care that the woman's daughter was in the house in Newport while he raped the terrified mother in the living room and shouted abuse at her.

Hussain, who bizarrely sacked his own counsel and repeatedly shouted incoherently at Judge Michael Fitton during his sentencing hearing, was found guilty of rape and assault by penetration by a jury. He also shouted from the dock at Roger Griffiths, prosecuting, that the details of the case were "a load of f****** bull****" before Judge Fitton ordered him to "sit down and be quiet". Read the full sentencing here.

Sabina Khanom

The 27-year-old had to be dragged away as she tried to run back into her burning flat to get baby clothes just before it exploded. She was seen setting fire to a sofa in the property moments earlier.

Khanom was seen setting fire to bits of tissue which she threw on the sofa of her Newport flat before pouring a flammable liquid on it. Footage of the fire was shown to a sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court which showed panicked residents running in fear of being caught by the explosion.

Kyle Gregory

The young drug dealer was caught with almost 200 wraps of crack cocaine hidden in rubber gloves after being tracked down by a police dog. Gregory was already on a suspended sentence for dealing cocaine and heroin when he resumed peddling Class A drugs. He was caught for the second time after the stolen car he was riding in was involved in a police pursuit which ended with a head-on crash and the defendant running away.

Lydia Chadwick

She was found with thousands of "harrowing" child abuse images and then pretended to be mute when she appeared in court. However, despite claiming she suffered from a medical condition that rendered her incapable of speaking, Lydia Chadwick later went on to talk in order to defend herself before a jury.

The 36-year-old, who has links to Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, had been found to possess more than 2,000 indecent images of children after police executed a warrant at her home address in Ulverston, Cumbria. Officers seized mobile phones and a laptop.

Ian Maclean

The convicted rapist with derogatory attitudes about females preyed on a lone woman and subjected her to a terrifying ordeal in her own home. Maclean forced his way into his victim's house after first establishing she was on her own before throttling her. The victim later said she thought the intruder was going to rape her and she said he seemed to enjoy how scared she was. Swansea Crown Court heard Maclean had more than 120 previous offences on his record including assaults, burglaries, and a "particularly horrific" rape of a young woman whom he dragged from her bed after breaking into her house.

Jodie Gleed

She hit her friend over the head with a meat cleaver over a row about money in an attack which has left the victim feeling like "a walking freak show." Swansea Crown Court heard how Caroline Jones had loaned Gleed £140 and a mobile phone.

The court heard they had been friends for years and had a good relationship but Gleed did not return the money or the phone despite telling Miss Jones she would. At around midnight Miss Jones walked to Gleed's home and knocked on the front door, which was answered within seconds. Gleed was holding a meat cleaver and shouted: "I'm going to f****** kill you."

Wayne Jones

The "immature and insecure" bodybuilder hid tracking devices on an ex-partner's car so he could monitor her movements. When his actions were discovered Jones bombarded his former girlfriend with messages and shouted through her letterbox – and demanded his tracker back.

Jones – who has a history of assaulting and abusing partners – said he was not proud of his past behaviour which he put down to steroid abuse linked to his bodybuilding hobby. A judge described the 48-year-old grandfather as an "immature and insecure" man.

Joanne Hughes

The fraudulent accountant took £280,000 from three companies she was working for, bankrupting one of them and leaving 28 people unemployed. Hughes, who runs her own accountancy firm, preyed on the vulnerability of the company owners who had little knowledge of accounts and repeatedly kept money owed to the then-HMRC for herself.

Christopher Raisis

A man suffered a fractured cheekbone among other injuries following a dispute between neighbours. Raisis punched Luke Stephens several times and pushed another neighbour, Abbie Mackie, at his block of flats.

William Bebb, prosecuting, told the court how Mr Stephens, who lived below Raisis, heard Raisis and Ms Mackie in a heated discussion one morning. Later that afternoon Mr Stephens went for a walk with Ms Mackie and on returning to the block found Raisis waiting for them with a metal garden chair in his hands.

Regan Campbell

The "cowardly and cynical" father-of-two used the home of his ex-partner and his children to stash cocaine with a street value of £9,000. Campbell, from Newport, used Stevie Fletcher's home for at least three months because he didn't think officers would look there. Read the full sentencing here.

Jacob Curley

The 32-year-old who raped a 15-year-old girl was jailed for 12 years. Cardiff Crown Court heard that he had "turned her life upside-down". Curley was found guilty of rape by a jury following a trial and was also found guilty of sexual assault

Talha Chaudry

The teenage drug dealer was caught after police saw him acting suspiciously in the doorway of a café. Chaudry had been sent to Swansea by a Manchester drugs gang to peddle cocaine and was staying in a city centre hotel paying for the room daily in cash. After being arrested and charged the defendant went on the run and was at large for some 10 months.

James Perry

The terrifying moment a man armed himself with a knife and loomed over a defenceless police officer as she lay on the floor was caught on camera. You can see it here.

Police had been called to the house Perry shared with his grandmother following concerns of a domestic disturbance. When told he had to leave the premises the defendant turned his anger on the two PCs, grabbing one officer and lunging at her with a knife before a second officer intervened and confronted him with a Taser.

Robert John Rixon

The school swimming teacher carried out a long-standing "campaign of sexual abuse" on five young girls he taught leaving them with deep-rooted psychological trauma. Over a 16-year period Rixon sexually abused his victims who were as young as 11. Swansea Crown Court heard that Rixon abused the girls at a swimming and lifeguarding club he ran at a school.

Ashton Jones, Ryan Foyle, and Dylan Griffiths

The three thugs chased and viciously attacked a random passer-by on a busy shopping street in the middle of the afternoon before the victim was slashed with a hunting knife. At one stage the man sought refuge in a shop but the shopkeeper refused his pleas for help and put him back on the street to take his chances with his knife-wielding assailants. Two of the attackers then went home to change their clothes before returning to the pub just yards from the incident where they had been drinking before the assault.

Dafydd Merkel

The drunk thug punched a door off its hinges as his partner and her children hid in her bedroom before trashing her house and smashing a mirror. He went on to put a hole in her car windscreen and threatened to smash up her shop. The 36-year-old became angry after coming home intoxicated after watching a rugby match and ignored his partner's pleas for him to sleep at his mother's house.

Martin Smith

He was one of two heroin dealers who were caught red-handed when police stopped them in their car after leaving a house in Swansea. They drove away in a Nissan Juke, which was then stopped by officers. Smith was found in possession of eight wraps of heroin. A property in Townhill was searched and police found 70 wraps of heroin valued at more than £8,000. Smith's phone was found to contain a number of drug-related messages. Read the sentencing here.

Faisel Ahmed, Mustafa Saiid, and Shuaib Issak

The three young men were unmasked as part of an organised crime gang trafficking large amounts of Class A drugs from Manchester to Aberystwyth. Officers believed the gang sending the couriers across the border was involved in supplying huge quantities of drugs to the Ceredigion area. One of the couriers caught heading for the university town had dozens of wraps of cocaine hidden in his anus.

John Coles

He burgled a house and confronted the lone woman who lived there on the day he should have been in court in connection with other offences. An intoxicated Coles walked into the property in the middle of the day while the victim was upstairs busy painting and decorating her home. Swansea Crown Court heard the woman had been left so upset by what happened she was considering selling the house and moving.

Joseph Parry

He spat at a police officer and threw a bottle at a horse during a riot in Bristol. Parry, from Llanelli, was also part of a group who attempted to pull the door off a mobile police station.

He appeared in Bristol Crown Court and was sentenced after pleading guilty to a charge of violent disorder. The 23-year-old was given a 20-month custodial sentence following his guilty plea. He is the 21st person to be jailed following the riot.

Marcus Davies

The cocaine dealer kept his supplies of the drug in empty paracetamol packets in his flat. Davies was arrested on a Neath street by police officers who had linked a suspected drugs phone line to him. When they searched his home they found a stash of the Class A drug hidden in painkiller boxes along with a quantity of cannabis and more than £1,200 in cash. He later told officers he had turned to supplying drugs because he could not find a job.

Asif Iqbal

The mobile hairdresser pulled over by police was found to have 1.3kg of cannabis and thousands of pounds in cash in his Mercedes. Iqbal told the officers the £4,000 in cash also found in his vehicle was payment for a dog. Swansea Crown Court heard that two months after being arrested and then released under investigation the 37-year-old was found with another stash of cannabis and cash.

Monty Lee

He led police on a chase through Cardiff before crashing into bushes after going the wrong way around a roundabout and then attempting to flee the scene. When Lee was eventually caught by police constable Richard Harrison it was discovered he was also driving without insurance and while disqualified.

Christopher Westacott

The 33-year-old lured a female delivery driver towards him before punching her to the head and taking off with the food she was carrying. Westacott was found guilty of the robbery of the defenceless woman in Newport following a jury trial.

The woman, who was working for a private delivery company at the time, said she "lives in constant fear" since the incident. Nik Strobl, prosecuting, read the victim's statement to the court.

Brandon Brock

The one-time promising rugby player armed with a knife targeted a man who had just withdrawn money from a cash machine. Brock was part of a gang of youngsters who approached the man in the street before trying to snatch the money and throwing punches and dragging his victim to the ground. The 19-year-old then produced a knife before assaulting a good Samaritan who intervened in the attempted robbery and assaulting a police officer who was arresting him.

Kian Jackson

A pizza shop owner was threatened with a large knife after finding two teenagers burgling his business. The teen intruders had gone into the Port Talbot business through an open rear door and entered a number of rooms, including some on the upper floors, before confronting the boss. Read more here.

Lewis Liddell

A taxi driver who was knocked out by a drunken passenger and suffered serious head injuries said the attack had destroyed his life. Liddell assaulted the cabbie after drinking heavily and taking cocaine for the first time. After an argument with the taxi driver outside the cab he delivered a powerful punch which sent his victim crashing to the floor. The cabbie has been left unable to work and said he could not remember his own granddaughter.

Phillip Hanlon

The "coward" and "bully" poured boiling water over his partner from a kettle and punched her in the head when she accidentally kicked him. He also elbowed her in the face during a separate assault.

The 43-year-old, of Cardiff, made his girlfriend's life a misery by subjecting her to frequent physical and verbal abuse. The couple had been in a relationship for three years when the abuse came to a head and the victim reported matters to police. Read the full sentencing here.

Huw Thomas

The pensioner sexually assaulted a woman while she was asleep after he had taken cocaine and cannabis. The woman woke to find herself naked and the man touching her.

The 72-year-old, of Cardiff, was found guilty of sexual assault by penetration and sexual assault following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court. The court heard he attended a house in Penarth in 2020 where he drank alcohol and took drugs. He entered a bedroom where the victim, a young woman, was lying in bed and went on to sexually assault her. Read the sentencing here.

Brian Malam

A vulnerable woman living in a care home had to wear clothes from deceased residents after the person in charge of her finances stole her money. Malam had power of attorney over his friend Margaret Wright's money but spent years helping himself to tens of thousands of pounds of her savings. Mrs Wright is better known by her professional name Meg Wynn Owen under which she featured in a host of popular TV shows and films including Love Actually, Doctor Who, Under Milk Wood, Pride and Prejudice, and Upstairs Downstairs.

Mark Buchanan

The organised crime group member was wearing a delivery company uniform and driving a specially-adapted vehicle to smuggle drugs into Wales when he was caught on one of the UK's busiest motorways. Buchanan was jailed at Cardiff Crown Court for 16 years after pleading guilty to his part in a large-scale drugs network. Read the sentencing here.

Lee Thomas

The cannabis dealer was caught after his phone was seized by police and messages relating to drug dealing were discovered. He was said to have played a "significant role" and was expected to be making a steady profit. The 30-year-old, of Newport, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of Class B drugs. He was found not guilty of dealing Class A drugs following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court.

Ashley Watson

The former soldier has been jailed for breaking a man's jaw in a brutal bar assault. Watson lost his temper in a Port Talbot pub, punching a stranger in the face and causing a double fracture which required the victim to have metal plates and 12 screws fitted in his jaw. The 24-year-old defendant has a previous conviction for violence following an assault on a fellow soldier which earned him a period of military detention.

Jahidol Kamaj

The drug-dealing law graduate was caught red-handed with a stash of cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, ketamine, and cannabis. Undercover police saw Kamaj acting suspiciously in his car outside a Swansea supermarket and swooped on the vehicle, recovering the five different drugs along with hundreds of pounds in cash and a phone full of incriminating messages some of which had been received just minutes before his arrest.

Jan Kandrac

The burglar, who raided a vulnerable man's flat, returned to the scene of the crime and asked for his bank card and drugs back. Kandrac had sneaked into the man's flat while he slept on the sofa and stole his TV and other items but he left his tobacco tin and debit card behind. The burglar pawned the man's TV before returning to the flat to ask for his possessions back – an act a judge described as showing "barefaced cheek".

Robert Wheeler

The 76-year-old, from Maesydderwen, Llandissilio, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, was jailed for 12 and a half years after admitting abusing a young boy and girl more than 30 years ago. You can read more about the case here. Dyfed-Powys Police did not provide a custody photograph of the defendant.

Morgan Watson

The defendant threatened a friend with a broken bottle and struck him with a hammer when the man refused to hand over his prescription medication. Watson later contacted police and told them he had been doing "really bad stuff". He was jailed for 15 months.

Kerry Hearne

Convicted bank robber Kerry Hearne led police on a high-speed chase because he didn't want to get arrested and miss his mother's funeral the next day. The 32-year-old, who has 22 previous convictions, was jailed for 50 months. Read more about the case here.

Richard Wyn Lewis

A "serial fraudster" was jailed for six years after conning more than £200,000 from a pensioner who was later murdered in a crossbow shooting in an unrelated incident. Richard Wyn Lewis befriended Gerald Corrigan, 74, and persuaded the retired lecturer and his partner Marie Bailey to hand over money they believed was related to property development, land sales, and horses. Mr Corrigan was later fatally shot with a crossbow outside his home in a remote part of Anglesey in April 2019. Get the full story here.

Ashlee Omar

The knife-wielding teenager walked into a shop in Cardiff and threatened to stab a former friend before chasing him down the street as he rode off on a bike. He was detained for 12 months after he admitted affray and threatening a person with a knife.

Marcus Bevan and Marcus Murphy

The pair were caught red-handed trashing a rugby club in the early hours of the morning though due to their level of intoxication they can remember little of what happened. Between them the defendants have previous convictions for more than 240 offences. Bevan was sentenced to a total of three years and eight months in prison while Murphy was jailed for two and a half years. Get the full story here.

Aiden Price and Patrick McNulty

The teenage duo set fire to a woman's gate outside her home after being offered money by her ex-partner. One of them poured petrol onto the gate before setting it alight, their sentencing was told. Price was sentenced to 32 months in jail while McNulty was sentenced to 27 months detention in a young offenders' institute.

Michael Turner

A drugged-up grandfather caused £48,000 worth of damage to a hotel. The hotel owner found him naked with the shower running after guests complained of leaking water. Turner was sentenced to a total of 14 and a half months in prison. Read the full story here.

Jaryd Warlow

A man was punched in the face, kicked in the testicles, and called an "English b******" in a vicious and unprovoked street assault carried out by a total stranger. Jaryd Warlow punched his victim to the floor and repeatedly kicked him between the legs. Despite the violence a judge was told letters written to the court from friends of the defendant showed another side to his character. He was sentenced to 28 months in jail.

Corina Rezvumes

She was caught shoplifting in Primark in Cardiff in October 2016 but, having been charged, she failed to attend court and absconded to her home country of Romania. She was tracked down in 2022 when she was once again caught stealing in the Welsh capital. She's now been jailed for eight months.

Emmett Morrison

The killer will serve at least 28 years in prison after beating his vulnerable neighbour to death in a brutal and prolonged attack in his own home. Morrison punched, kicked, and struck 66-year-old Timothy Dundon with a blunt object before pushing a heavy wooden cabinet on top of the stricken man and then walking out leaving him to die alone. The gravely-injured man may have lived for up to two hours after the assault but rather than seeking help for his victim Morrison instead walked to the nearby flat of a pensioner in search of drugs and when he couldn't get any launched a vicious attack on the 74-year-old. Read what the judge had to say here.

Matthew Selby

He was jailed for five years for killing his 15-year-old sister at a holiday park. Selby attacked his sister Amanda after an argument in a caravan at the Ty Mawr Holiday Park in Towyn, near Abergele, on July 31, 2021. At Mold Crown Court the 20-year-old, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing, was give an extended sentence of 10 years made up of a five-year custodial term and five years on extended licence.

Morgan Wainewright

The teenager killed a beloved family man with a single punch after taking drugs and drinking heavily on a night out. Wainewright, then 19, hit Andrew Nicholas near the King's Head Wetherspoon pub in Monmouth and the 43-year-old never regained consciousness. Wainewright pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Nicholas – described by his family as an "amazing, wonderful, and loving son, brother, and uncle" – in an attack which took place in the early hours of the morning in Monnow Street. Mr Nicholas, a talented golfer from Poole, had been visiting the area with friends on a golfing trip, Newport Crown Court heard. Read the full sentencing here.

Keith Edmunds

The paedophile who sexually assaulted four children will be 100 years old by the time he will be eligible for release. A judge condemned the defendant for his lack of remorse after he accused his victims of lying during his sentencing. Edmunds, 86, committed sex offences against children over a 14-year period and stripped his victims of their childhood. He denied the abuse but was found guilty of 11 counts of assault following a trial at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court.

Mayhill rioters

These are the faces and names of the people who have been locked up for their role in the Mayhill riots. The Swansea community witnessed sickening devastation and damage in May 2021 after what was supposed to be a peaceful vigil for a local teenager who had died turned violent. Those involved in the rioting ranged from school children to men in their 40s and as a result of the disturbance seven families have now left the Mayhill area or want to do so. Read the full sentencing here.

Anthony Hampton

The victims of the former councillor and teacher who sexually abused them as children worried they wouldn't be believed because of his influence. A judge told Hampton the character he portrayed throughout his life was "a façade."

The 75-year-old ex Vale of Glamorgan councillor was convicted of indecently assaulting two boys in the 1990s, following a trial at Newport Crown Court. He repeatedly rubbed his penis on one of the boy's shoulders before masturbating in his presence, forcing the boy to masturbate him and masturbating the victim.

Anthony Smith and Joshua Murphy

A Swansea man was subjected to a sadistic "punishment beating" over an unpaid debt after being lured to a city flat and kidnapped. The man was kept prisoner in the property, had his hands and feet bound, and was beaten, tortured, stabbed, and threatened. He was then told he was going to be buried in a makeshift grave in the garden and was told his girlfriend was going to be tied up and dragged behind a car as it drove along the motorway. Read about the pair's involvement and sentencing here.

Gemma Kelshaw

She dragged an 82-year-old pensioner to the floor and grappled with her as she tried to steal her handbag. Kelshaw, who has a history of violent offending, attacked her vulnerable victim in broad daylight at a bus stop. The ordeal has left the victim frightened to go out on her own and unable to meet friends at the local social club or catch the bus into town.

Drugs gang

Four men were jailed at the start of the month after police busted a huge cocaine and heroin operation that saw drugs being trafficked from the West Midlands to various parts of Wales. Nicholas Gale, Spencer Perks, Jamie Christopher, and Jake Garland were responsible for a "multi-kilogram supply of cocaine and heroin" and were caught as part as Operation Cruise. Read their sentencing here.

Liam Fox

He joined his older brother's drug-dealing operation after losing his job and seeing an opportunity to "make quick and easy money". Fox was caught with 119 wraps of heroin and £1,000 in cash in his house after police had seen him acting suspiciously on the street. Sending the defendant to prison, a judge told him heroin is a drug which causes "untold misery" to users.

Zac Thomas and Ryan Abraham

Cocaine dealer Thomas rammed unmarked police cars then told officers it was lucky he had not been driving something big like a Range Rover or he would have killed them all. The undercover officers had to draw Tasers and use batons to smash car windows in order to arrest Thomas and Abraham after they had tried to flee. Officers had been looking for Thomas after he had been seen carrying out a suspected drug deal in a car park behind a row of shops on a Swansea housing estate. Read the sentencing here.

Robert Draper

The drug dealer was caught after he walked into his local village post office and tried to send thousands of pounds worth of heroin in a parcel. Robert Draper, 52, went to Llangadog post office in Carmarthenshire on June 4, 2021. He told the postmaster that he wanted to send a package to Carmarthen. However the postmaster became suspicious due to Draper's demeanour and the fact that the package only had an address on it as he did not want to put a recipient's name on its front. You can get the latest WalesOnline newsletters emailed to you directly for free by signing up here.

Natalie Price

She threatened a shopkeeper with an imitation firearm after being caught shoplifting. The weapon was described as looking like a small black handgun. Price, 38, attended the Londis store in Newport and was spotted stealing a bottle of wine by Niruban Thirumuruhan. He told her to leave the shop but she returned later that day brandishing the weapon.

Dino Price

The cocaine-fuelled driver used his van as "a battering ram" by reversing into police during a chase while being Tasered behind the wheel. He caused more than £40,000 worth of damage and sped up to 80mph through residential streets.

The 22-year-old was travelling along the A472 in Hafodyrynys, in Caerphilly, at around 7.20pm on August 30, 2021, when he dangerously overtook a vehicle and an unmarked police car signalled for him to pull over. He ignored their request and carried on driving.

Edward and Daniel McCann

The father and son cannabis dealers moved to Wales to set up a multi-million-pound family-run drugs business. Dad Edward and son Daniel were already running a successful cannabis operation in Hampshire when they decided to relocate across the border to expand their business. After spending months searching for just the right property they bought an isolated house with large outbuilding in Carmarthenshire and set about transforming it into a production and distribution centre.

Terrance Harrison and Shaun Lucas

A drugs gang was shipping large quantities of cocaine and cannabis from Liverpool to Pembrokeshire via Dorset. The crime group was taken down by a major investigation by Dyfed-Powys Police which included covert surveillance of a suspect's property in Fishguard. So far six of the gang have been jailed for their parts in the conspiracy but one major figure remains at large. Read more here.

Corey Rowlands

A man was left with a nasty gash to his head after a glass bottle was thrown at him in a pub. The incident was caught on CCTV and showed the perpetrator aiming the bottle as his head. Smirking Rowlands, 20, assaulted Jamie Evans at the Harp Inn in Gelligaer, Caerphilly. Police were called to the pub and spoke to Mr Evans who was reluctant to speak to them.

Jayden Green

The young drug dealer found in possession of £10,000 worth of cocaine and around £15,000 in designer clothes has been ordered to pay back £11,000. The defendant was also found in possession of a Rambo knife and knuckleduster. Green, 21, of Cardiff, matched the description of a vulnerable teenager when he was stopped by police in Llanishen, as he was riding a Sur-Ron electric bike and wearing various labels such as a North Face coat and Nike trainers. He tried to ride off but was detained and searched. Read the full sentencing here.

Billy Hearn and Callum Booth

The two dealers were openly counting their drugs on a table of a busy morning train. Other passengers on board the service to Swansea were so concerned at what was happening they called police and officers were waiting for the pair when the train arrived. The day after they were caught red-handed with their stash, one of the dealers went on to carry out an armed robbery of a shop, which saw him subsequently handed an extended sentence as a dangerous offender who poses a risk to the public.

Samuel Shaheen

The care home worker who sexually abused a vulnerable resident said he was only "comforting" her. Shaheen repeatedly kissed the woman and touched her breasts and bum and put his penis in her mouth. He told his victim the activity was their "little secret" and showed her photos of his wife and children back home in Pakistan and said his while his wife was "number one" she was his "number two". Read his sentencing here.

Bardhok Marku

He travelled to the UK in the back of a lorry and was found working in a cannabis factory with more than 200 plants. The gang who employed him refused to pay him and threatened his family back home in Albania. Marku, 48, was arrested at a house in Nantymoel, Bridgend, after police raided the property and detained him in the kitchen. They found a total of 214 cannabis plants with four rooms dedicated to the production of the drug.

Gavin Emmett

The cannabis dealer known as "fat Gav" was discovered after text messages were found on a customer's phone. He frequently sent out "text bombs" advertising drugs and offered three different strains of cannabis. Messages from the 31-year-old were found on the phone of Samantha Greville after the authorities had seized the device. They managed to trace the defendant's number and arrested him at his home in Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent.

Elton Musta, Ledian Xhafa, Lorenc Cobo, and Renato Shyti

The Albanian crime gang was using a Neath house as a base for its cannabis-growing and distribution business. Four men were arrested at the property – one after fleeing through an upstairs window – and police seized more than £14,000 worth of the harvested drug along with a stash of passports. Officers also recovered a number of mobile phones and though the text messages contained on them were in Albanian the pictures, selfies, and videos recovered were of interest. Read more and see the pictures here.

Kris Maisey

The convicted sex offender borrowed his mother's mobile to search for images of underage children after police had seized his own phone following the discovery he had been in communication with 12-year-old girls. Maisey was on a suspended sentence at the time having previously been caught with a haul of child sex abuse images and was also the subject of a sexual harm prevention order designed to control his online activities.

Simon Sterling

The abusive man hit his former partner over the head with a plank of wood and went on to strangle her adult daughter when she threatened to call the police. He later burgled shops and caused significant damage. Sterling, 41, assaulted his ex-partner after locking her in her flat in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf. She said he was acting "paranoid", accused her of looking at him, and subjected her to many assaults throughout the night.

Mark Smirthwaite

The arsonist was caught on CCTV setting fire to bins in a block of flats where he lived. The fire left residents "psychologically harmed" after the flats had been set on fire six times previously. The 46-year-old entered the basement of the Greenwood flats in Newport but was seen leaving shortly later as smoke started billowing. The emergency services were called and managed to stop the fire before it took hold.

Thomas Goodier

The "dangerous offender" was jailed for 20 years for the rape of a woman in north Wales. The 25-year-old, of St Helens, Merseyside, had been found guilty of two counts committed in Conwy county.

Benjamin Donnelly

The carpenter likened to "Jekyll and Hyde" left his 71-year-old mother terrified as he injured her arm and hurled abuse at her for hours. Sally Donnelly, who said her son is usually "nice and polite", fled to a neighbour's home to escape his latest attack on her. Prosecutor Nuhu Gobir told Newport Crown Court that Ms Donnelly was at her home in Llanishen, Cardiff, with her son when she questioned him about his use of cocaine and he became enraged. "The defendant started trying to pull his mother from her chair and grabbed her left forearm," said Mr Gobir.

Clifford Taylor

The former yacht club manager sent a video of himself masturbating to a nine-year-old boy. He also asked the young boy for naked photographs. Taylor, 40, was convicted of two counts of sexually communicating with a child following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court. He denied the offences and continues to maintain his innocence despite the verdicts. Read the sentence here.

Lee Williams

The bus driver repeatedly raped and sexually as well as physically abused five teenage girls and left them feeling suicidal. The majority of the girls were underage when he preyed on them, a court heard.

Williams, 32, of Cardiff, groomed his victims by buying them jewellery, cuddly toys, and food while lying about his age. Once in a relationship with the victims he raped them and subjected them to further degrading sexual acts which left them injured and crying.

Richard Cook

The brazen burglar stole a huge haul of mail after sneaking into a postal depot in the dead of night. Cook was seen pushing large trollies full of parcels, none of which have ever been recovered, away from the building. The 36-year-old has more than 100 previous offences on his record and a judge branded him a "persistent and relentless offender". Read his sentencing here.

Stanimir Asenov

He was jailed after subjecting his partner to years of abuse where he threatened her with a boiled kettle and a cable around her neck. Asenov was sentenced to 14 months in prison at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court for his actions. The defendant pleaded not guilty to multiple assaults but a jury found him guilty of assault amounting to grievous bodily harm during a trial in October. A statement from South Wales Police commended the victim for coming forward after feeling trapped in the relationship.

Stephen Voyce

The "parasitic" man sexually assaulted and strangled a disabled elderly woman during a months-long campaign of abuse. Voyce admitted he found it "a bit erotic" to touch the victim's private parts without her consent. He drew crosses on her body as well as forcing her to read him Bible passages and give him money for beer. Read the sentencing here.

Connor Davies

The Swansea man was found with Class A drugs when stopped and searched in the city while driving his mother's car without insurance. Swansea Crown Court heard how on December 31, 2021, at 6.55pm police stopped a vehicle being driven by Davies along Pentremawr Road in Swansea. He told officers he was driving his mother's car and that he was not insured to do so. He was asked if there was anything in the car he should not have and he responded: "I have cocaine in here" while pointing towards the glove box.

Sami Meah

The thug attacked a taxi driver with a whisky bottle and left him with lacerations to his head after refusing to a pay his fare. He also threatened to smash the taxi up unless the driver gave him money.

Meah, 35, wounded taxi driver Khair Mohammed after a trip from Cardiff city centre to Splott. The attacker had got out of the car without paying and became violent when confronted by the victim.

Matthew Cleary and Mikel Kujtila

The successful property developer from Cardiff and a man from Albania produced thousands of pounds worth of cannabis across eight cannabis farms in the city.

Cleary and his accomplice Kujtila profited from the cannabis factories in and around Cardiff in a conspiracy thought to have involved more than 100kg of the Class B drug, Cardiff Crown Court heard. Read more about their operations here.

Michael James

The paedophile filmed himself sexually abusing a 10-year-old then threatened to release the footage if the boy told anyone. Michael James from Merthyr Tydfil attacked three boys and raped two of them.

James, now 66, terrorised the children in the 1990s and 2000s. In one case he threatened to kill a 15-year-old boy if he revealed the abuse, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

Steven Semmens, Andrew Botto, Shane White, and Ieuan Williams

Welsh drug dealer Semmens (pictured top left) left Colombia "never to return" after snorting cocaine from the grave of feared drug lord Pablo Escobar, a court heard. Semmens' barrister said his client's actions – which were put on Facebook – did not go down well with criminal confederates of the former cartel boss and were a sign of his "naivete" and of the Walter Mitty fantasy world he was living in. Semmens and his fellow cocaine dealers were jailed at Swansea Crown Court for their parts in peddling the Class A drug.

Peter Morgan

The drug-dealing football coach was caught after a traffic stop on his van. A strong smell of cannabis in the vehicle led officers to raiding the house he shared house with his older brother where they uncovered a cannabis production and supply business and a cocaine-dealing operation which had been going on for years. Read the sentencing here.

Michael Kingston and Chelsea Rees

The couple plotted to stab a dog breeder in the stomach in a revenge attack after she sold them a puppy which died. Rees fell asleep and missed the stabbing but boyfriend Kingston went without her and plunged a knife into their victim when she opened her front door. Swansea Crown Court heard Rees had wanted to stab the dog breeder 13 times – one for each puppy in the litter – and wanted her to suffer and feel pain. The couple have been locked up for five years each.

Damian Jones and Lucas Byrne

Dad-to-be Jones was caught dealing cocaine – weeks after appearing in court for dealing cocaine. The Bridgend man may have avoided jail had he not been busted a second time.

The 21-year-old was sentenced alongside Byrne and Connor Ockerby, both 19, after the trio were arrested and admitted drug offences. Police had noticed Jones in the street with another man and searched them. The officers seized Jones' phone, which had texts suggesting a deal was about to take place – and when a car arrived the officers noticed a strong smell of cannabis from inside. Read the full sentencing here.

Shane Thomas

He knocked on a pensioner's door under the pretence that he wanted water before exposing his penis to her. As she tried to close her door he pushed against it in an attempt to prolong his exposure to her. Read how long he was sentenced to here.

Joseph Jones

The high-ranking Welsh police officer corruptly accessed information for a woman then forged a notebook in an attempt to deceive a jury. The former South Wales Police chief inspector took a "truly epic" fall from grace, a court heard.

The 48-year-old misused a police computer system to gain information on a woman who had been his cleaner and at one time had sexual activity with him. The woman was also a landlady who became involved in legal action against her tenants – and Jones used the Niche system to look for information about them.

Andrew Howell

The tree surgeon attacked a man with an axe following an altercation at their local pub. Howell armed himself with the "razor-sharp" implement and repeatedly stuck his victim to the face and head in the street, leaving the man bleeding and gravely wounded.

Darryl Price

Price was jailed for 15 months after he disguised his car with fake number plates before going out and performing a sex act in front of a jogger on a busy main road. A court heard the 29-year-old has a previous conviction for exposure in similar circumstances.

Cameron Isaac

A young cocaine dealer was supplying "wholesale quantities" of coke to dealers for onward supply to addicts, a court heard. Cameron Isaac was involved in selling large quantities of the Class A drug over a two-year period until one of his customers was caught following a high-speed police chase, and his number was found on a mobile phone.

Akeil Maskeen

A heroin and crack cocaine dealer was jailed after police uncovered his stash in a Cardiff neighbourhood. Akeil Maskeen, 22, tried to make off from officers on September 30 but shortly afterwards he was detained in a shop.

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