Locked Up: The criminals justice caught up with in September and what happened to them

A murderer and crime boss were amongst the 75 people locked up for the most serious crimes in Wales over the course of September. Every month we round up the criminals put behind bars in the past month.

September saw a killer jailed for stabbing a man who owed him money and leaving him to bleed to death. Justice also caught up with the head of a family drug dealing business, Lynne Leyshon, who had been on the run for 16 months. For the latest court reports, sign up to our crime newsletter here^[1].

Once again, there were a number of men jailed for attacks on their partners or former partners. One sadistic bully told his partner he had worked out it would only take four-and-a-half minutes to kill her and her daughters, saying he would slit the girls’ throats first while their mother watched before turning the knife on her because he wanted her to “suffer”.

Abusive Andrew Symons punched and strangled his partner after calling her a “horrible c***” when she told him they couldn’t get a dog^[2]. The victim was petrified he was going to kill her during the attack.

Here are the criminals and their crimes:

Kieran Carter

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The murderer stabbed a man who owed him a drug debt four times in the leg and left him to bleed to death. He then fled to a hospital across the border in a bid to evade justice.

Carter, 22, brutally murdered father-of-four Daniel Rae, 30, at his home in Treforest, Pontypridd, on December 17 last year. He barged into Mr Rae’s bedroom before launching a “frenzied attack” with a knife, stabbing his victim in the leg and causing a fatal injury. Read his sentence here.^[3][4]

Lynne Leyson

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The head of a family drug dealing business who has been on-the-run for 16 months has been put behind bars – and is starting a nine-year jail sentence^[5]. Leyson skipped bail after being convicted for her part in a major cocaine and cannabis dealing operation which was run from the family smallholding in rural Carmarthenshire^[6].

In July last year Leyson’s husband and son were given lengthy jail sentences for their involvement in the crime gang but Lynne Leyson did not attend the hearing and went to ground. She was subsequently sentenced in her absence.

Savannah Roberts

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The 27-year-old woman was jailed after the car she was driving hit a cyclist^[7]. She left her victim begging for pain on the side of the road. He later needed to have his leg amputated.

Roberts, from Penarth^[8], sold her car in an attempt to cover up her role in the incident, which happened in the early hours of Friday, August 5, 2022, police said.

Leo Payne

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This is the face of a sexual predator who lingered around the streets of Swansea^[9] looking for women to rape. In the space of an hour Payne, 20, attacked and tried to rape two women as they walked through the city centre, as well as sexually assaulting one of his victims.

During the course of his offending, Payne pursued a number of other woman, walked around with his trousers down exposing himself, and performed a sex act in front of witnesses on a busy road. The defendant went on to assault a man with a bottle after the member of the public challenged him on his behaviour towards a female. Read his sentence here.^[10]

Vincent Brown

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The homeless man spat at and bit people at a hospital after he refused to remove his wheelchair from an ambulance parking bay.^[11] He went on to to spit at a police officer and racially abused him.

Brown, 61, went to the University Hospital of Wales^[12] in Cardiff^[13] on May 28 where he was causing issues with entry barriers. Two men went to speak with the defendant but he refused to listen to them and assaulted them.

Christopher Moore

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Horrifying messages were left on a woman’s phone^[14] from her daughter’s boyfriend who threatened to stab her daughter in the throat with a Stanley knife. He told her he would attack anyone he came into contact with and people in her home should “run to the hills” if they wanted to stay alive.

Moore, 39, of Cardiff^[15], sent two voice messages to his partner’s mother on April 27 in which he made explicit and repeated threats to kill and harm various people, including his partner.

Darryl Baldwin-Skeet

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The rogue gardener fleeced customers out of more than £20,000^[16] and left them with dodgy and uncompleted work. He gained work after providing photos of previous jobs which turned out to be fake.

Serial fraudster Baldwin-Skeet, 41, of Pontyclun^[17], was trading under the name Diamond Groundworks Landscaping when he accepted gardening work on behalf of two couples in 2022. He left the jobs largely incomplete and the majority of the work carried out was unsafe and had to be replaced.

Drugs gang

(Top left to right) Kerry Evans, Lloyd Jones, Jason Flannigan. (Middle left to right) Ricky Griffiths, Christopher Wray, Alex Davies. (Bottom left to right) Claire James, Leon Owen, Asim Syed. (Image: Tarian)

The organised crime gang was involved in a conspiracy to supply up to £72m worth of heroin and cocaine transported into south Wales^[18]. On one occasion, a member of the gang was found in possession of 5kg of heroin after delivering the cash in a crane.

Kerry Evans, 35, of Merthyr Tydfil^[19], was the “orchestrator” of the enterprise which involved drug dealing on an almost industrial scale with huge amounts of money involved. Speaking at a sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court^[20], prosecutor Andrew Jones said: “It involved various people in different roles, at different points of time, and geographic locations, who came together to engage in drug dealing on a colossal scale and vast amounts of money.”

Eifion Humphries

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The paedophile who was initially discovered with indecent images by his wife who recorded him playing the guitar breached a court order^[21] after being found with further images or child abuse. He tried to delete the images after police made an unannounced visit to his home.

Humphries, 32, was made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order in 2023 after he was convicted of possessing images of child abuse, including photos that had images of young girls being orally raped by a man. He was discovered after he asked his wife to use his mobile to video him playing the guitar and she saw what was stored on the device.

Luke Donner

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The “dangerous and violent” inmate assaulted three prison guards^[22] at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham^[23] over two days. One prison officer’s face was so badly injured his daughter was too scared to look at him.

Donner, 30, wanted to be out of his cell but reacted badly and seemed to be about to climb railings by a landing, Mold^[24] Crown Court^[25] heard. He assaulted one prison guard then another who came to help him.

Timothy Edwards

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The convicted sex offender claimed to be a teacher and sent pictures of his penis to someone he thought was a 12-year-old girl. In fact Edwards was communicating with an undercover police officer.^[26]

Swansea Crown Court^[27] heard Edwards used a false name and a picture of a cat in his online profile – a picture which turned out to be a snap of the family cat which had been taken in the conservatory of the family home. The court also heard the defendant began sending sexual messages and images to the online cop just weeks after being handed a suspended prison sentence for possession of images of children being sexually abused.

Tom Webster

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This man was jailed after he breached a Domestic Violence Protection Order^[28] aimed at protecting his victim. Webster, 40, of Victoria Terrace, Holyhead^[29], appeared at Mold^[30] Magistrates Court.

A North Wales Police^[31] statement said Webster was found in an address he was prohibited from entering due to a restraining order that had been put in place to protect a victim in May earlier this year. He was jailed for six weeks.

Vincent Brownson

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The “sadistic bully” told his partner he had worked out it would only take four-and-a-half minutes to kill her and her daughters. Brownson also told the terrified woman he would slit the girls’ throats first while she watched before turning the knife on her because he wanted her to “suffer”.

Swansea Crown Court^[32] heard the incident was part of a pattern of physically and emotionally abusive behaviour^[33] which the defendant subjected his partner to during their relationship. In an impact statement Brownson’s partner said everyone’s lives had been controlled by the defendant and his alcohol dependency.

Barry Jones

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The abusive man hit his partner with a scaffolding pole. A^[34] few months later Barry^[35] Jones strangled the same woman.

The 44-year-old, of Cae Bold, Caernarfon^[36], pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm and intentional strangulation in the incidents in Caernarfon. A judge jailed him for 25 months and 17 months respectively for those offences, with the sentences to run concurrently.

Timothy Dowler

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The convicted paedophile who sexually abused children spoke to a 15-year-old girl on the phone while in prison^[37] and told her he wanted to “meet up”. He also bought the teenager alcohol, cigarettes, and trainers.

Dowler, 22, was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order in 2021 after he was convicted of eight counts of causing or inciting a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity. He was sentenced to six years and six months detention in a young offenders’ institute.

Carl Martin

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He made arrangements to meet and sexually abuse children including a 10-month-old baby and later claimed he just wanted the children to sit on his lap so he could sing a nursey rhyme. A judge called Martin’s claim “about as fanciful an account as I have heard”.

Swansea Crown Court heard Martin had discussed meeting and abusing the youngsters with someone he met online whom he believed to be their mother. In fact he was chatting to an undercover police officer. Sending the defendant to prison a judge said there was a “very dark side” to Martin. Read his sentencing here.^[38][39]

Kyle Attard

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The paedophile suffered a panic attack^[40] in court during his sentencing for sending a decoy he thought was 12 years old videos of himself carrying out a sexual act. When police searched his home and seized his phone, he was found in possession of crack cocaine which he was involved in supplying.

Attard, 30, of Cardiff^[41], communicated with a decoy account on Snapchat which was being run by an undercover police officer in December 2022. He also had sexual communications with what is believed to be a 15-year-old girl in the USA.

Samuel Barlow

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Jailed for strangllng his pregnant partner. Barlow, 23, throttled Megan Shearsmith at her Flintshire^[42] home.

Three weeks later he punched a TV – smashing the screen – and threw a bottle of tomato ketchup which left the victim and the floor covered in sauce. Barlow admitted two counts of causing criminal damage. Read his sentence.^[43]

Craig Gillatt

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The thug strangled his girlfriend and hit her over the head with a bottle of Captain Morgan rum after she let him sleep on her sofa. The victim said he “beat her mercilessly” to the point she thought she was going to die.

Gillatt, 32, attacked his then partner at her home in Cardiff on August 14 last year after he and a friend came to sleep on her sofas. He was heavily intoxicated and lashed out at her with a deluge of violence. Read his sentencing here.^[44][45]

Scott Ball

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A father and son attacked staff and customers in a Swansea^[46] pub after being told they couldn’t take their pints outside onto the pavement.

Dad Scott Ball produced a rock in a sock and began swinging the weapon around while his son Kurtis Ball headbutted the landlord as the pair declared that they could drink wherever they wanted. Read the sentencing here.^[47]

Shaun Powell

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The serial burglar broke into the home of a renowned chef^[48] in Cardiff^[49] who came downstairs to discover his front door was open and hundreds of pounds had been taken. He managed to pursue the burglar to a neighbour’s garden and stayed with him until the police arrived.

Powell, 48, burgled the home of Lee Skeet in Pontcanna^[50] on August 12 while he was asleep upstairs in the property at the time. The Jackson’s and Cora chef left his room to investigate and noticed his door was open and between £200 and £300 had been taken from the kitchen.

Ethan Ernest

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The drug dealer who made multiple journeys between Cardiff and Birmingham^[51] to collect Class A substances was found in possession of 248g of cocaine. It’s estimated he collected in the region of £200,000 worth of cocaine during the trips.

Ernest, 30, was stopped by police on the M50 in the west Midlands while driving a Peugeot 308 on April 14 following intelligence received from the regional organised crime unit in south Wales. He was making a return journey to Cardiff^[52] having stopped off in Birmingham for a matter of minutes.

Craig Davies

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The customer in a Swansea pub threw bar stools at the landlady of the bar in a racially-aggravated assault^[53]. Davies mistakenly called his Welsh victim an “English b****” and threatened to return to rob the establishment after being told to leave because of his drunken behaviour.

Swansea Crown Crown^[54] heard that after leaving the pub Davies racially abused a taxi driver from the Indian subcontinent forcing the cabbie to stop the vehicle and order him out. The court heard the defendant has a “significant offending history” with 31 previous convictions for 46 offences including two domestic assaults, criminal damage, and a racially-aggravated public order matter involving a police officer.

Andrew Symons

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The abusive man punched and strangled his partner after calling her a “horrible c***” when she told him they couldn’t get a dog^[55]. The victim was petrified he was going to kill her during the attack.

Symons, 33, of Cardiff^[56], had been in a relationship with his victim and they had spent a “good day” together on May 1. They went to bed but the defendant woke her up at 1am to discuss buying a dog.

Jordan Hennessy

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The burglar brazenly pretended to be policeman^[57] when challenged by one of his victims. Hennessy showed the female householder what appeared to be a “police badge” after being discovered in her kitchen early in the morning.

Dewi Glyn Parry

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Jailed for assaulting two police officers^[58] in Caernarfon^[59]. Glyn Parry, 45, of Llandygai, appeared at Caernarfon Magistrates on Tuesday, after admitting assaulting two emergency workers.

A North Wales Police^[60] North Gwynedd^[61] statement said: “At around 9pm on Monday evening, police attended the Lon Y Bryn area of Caernarfon after receiving reports of a disturbance. On their arrival, Parry became aggressive towards the officers, pushing one officer to the ground and grabbing hold of and putting pressure on the wrist of another officer causing swelling to her wrist.”

Kurt Taylor

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He chased his ex-partner into the bathroom of her house^[62] and repeatedly punched her in the face leaving her battered and bruised. The same night as the assault Taylor used a wooden bat to set about the van of a male friend of his former partner causing more than £1,000 worth of damage

Cardiff Crown Court^[63] heard that a pre-sentence report had concluded Taylor poses a high risk to partners and that he has a “problem” with exes forming new relationships. Sending the defendant down a judge said he was satisfied Taylor should be classed as a dangerous offender but said he was not minded to impose an extended sentence.

Hassan Hassan

Police custody image of Hassan Hassan. (Image: Policer custody image of Hassan Hassan)

The drug dealer tried to pass a mobile phone at the centre of a drugs line he was running to someone else as police closed in to arrest him. Hassan, 20, ran the so-called Spice drugs line^[64] which supplied crack and heroin in Cardiff.

Hassan, of Adamsdown, was identified by the Cardiff^[65] and Vale Organised Crime Unit as the sole holder of the drugs line which supplied its customers Class A drugs. Hassan was arrested by Metropolitan Police officers in London on July 17. He tried to hand the mobile phone at the centre of police investigation to somebody as officers approached him.

Guy Watson

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He filmed himself sexually assaulting another man after he had fallen into a deep sleep in his bed. The victim was later shown the video and discovered he had also been filmed on CCTV.

Watson, 33, of Penarth^[66], performed a sexual act on the man without his consent after the pair had been drinking alcohol and taking drugs, a trial heard^[67].

Sambou Kassama

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The drug dealer was seen disposing of white powder from a bag before he was found in possession of crack cocaine and heroin. He was also found in possession of burner phones which showed he had been advertising drugs to hundreds of customers.^[68]

The home of Kassama, 27, in Cardiff^[69] was raided by police on July 4 and was observed from a rear bedroom window discarding white powder from a bag. He then jumped out of a bedroom window and hid in a neighbour’s garden where tried to discard more items.

Ryan Creed

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The thug was tasered after strangling his girlfriend on a beach^[70] and assaulting a police officer who came to her aid. The victim described the look in her attacker’s eyes as “terrifying”.

Creed, 26, subjected his victim to domestic violence during their relationship and assaulted her on a beach near Happy Valley Caravan Park in Porthcawl^[71] on August 17. He strangled her with two hands and spat at her a number of times in the face.

Andrew Wager

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Wager raped a 15-year-old girl at a party. Wager took advantage of the teen when she became ill at the event.

Swansea Crown Court heard that for most of the attack the young victim pretended to be asleep. Sending the 38-year-old father-of-two to prison, a judge said in the experience of the court the consequences of the kind of things the defendant did to the teenager can last a lifetime. Read the sentencing here.^[72][73]

Drugs gang

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The organised crime group flooded a Welsh town^[74] with drugs worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. The gang used businesses such as car washes and barbers as “fronts” for their criminality and moved recruits around the UK to “embed” them in Aberystwyth^[75] where they dealt cocaine and cannabis.

Mansur Ahmed

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The jealous man beat up his partner three times in a week^[76] then claimed he was acting in self-defence. The woman was left with a catalogue of bruises and bite marks to her face and body as a result of what Ahmed did to her.

Sending Ahmed to prison a judge told him that when a man attacks a woman he demeans her as a woman and also demeans himself as a human being. The defendant’s barrister said the 23-year-old wants to spend his time in custody doing courses to ensure that he comes out prison a better person than he went in.

Samaale Nourbouh

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The thug stamped three times on a man’s head^[77] as he lay unconscious in a horrendous assault caught on CCTV. The victim suffered facial injuries in the attack and a witness thought he had been killed.

Nourbouh, 24, delivered the devastating blows to Keysi Arten with a shod foot in Cardiff^[78] city centre at around 5.55am on July 29, 2023. The victim was speaking to a group of men outside the Proud Mary nightclub in St Mary Street including the defendant and Mustafa Ahmed.

Anthony O’Connell and Lee Thomas

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The two muggers set upon a man wandering the streets^[79] in the early hours of the morning looking for escort he had just booked. The victim had just withdrawn £300 in cash to pay for the escort and was trying to find the location he had been sent for his rendezvous when O’Connell and Thomas jumped him.

Swansea Crown Court^[80] heard that at the time of the robbery O’Connell had been out of prison for just over a year after serving a lengthy sentence for inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, while Thomas was on licence having been released from a sentence for burglary. Both men were sent down with O’Connell made the subject of an extended sentence as a dangerous offender.

Muneer Abdul

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The driver kidnapped a man and threatened him with a knife^[81] after he accidentally knocked his wing mirror. He made his victim get in his car and drove him to his house to get him £100.

Abdul, 27, was travelling through a country road in Sully^[82], Vale of Glamorgan^[83], on January 30 last year when his car and the victim’s car clipped each other’s wing mirrors. The defendant’s wing mirror cover was knocked off and both men stopped to talk.

Anduen Spahiu and Reols Havalja

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The two gardeners were found in possession of 10kg of cannabis worth up to £50,000 that had been loaded into a van^[84]. Police also found the remnants of a cannabis factory in a property.

Spahiu, 20, and Havalja, 26, were discovered tending to a cannabis factory in Bedwas, Caerphilly^[85], on January 31. Officers had initially received reports of a man removing a quantity of cannabis from a house.

Karol Jaworski

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He sexually assaulted a schoolgirl^[86] by smacking her on the bottom and caused £30,000 worth of delays after walking on railway tracks. He claimed he did it because he missed a lift and told police: “I do this in Poland all the time – what’s the problem?”

In respect of the sexual assault a judge heard Jaworski, 40, approached his 15-year-old victim in a shop in Bridgend^[87] earlier this year and told her: “Good arse.” The victim then felt a hard slap on her bottom which caused a sting and when she turned around she saw Jaworski looking at her.

Corrie Morgan

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The cocaine dealer who was due to become a father admitted to making £7,000 from selling Class A drugs^[88] after police found messages on his phone. He later claimed he was dealing in order to fund his own habit.

Morgan, 27, was caught after a phone was seized from a car outside a property in Rhymney, Caerphilly^[89], on March 26. On the phone were a number of messages from the defendant advertising cocaine between March 12 and 22.

James Griffiths

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He threw drinks and tables at staff^[90] in a Cardiff^[91] restaurant before spitting at a healthcare professional in police custody. He also exposed himself to a nurse in hospital and sexually assaulted a custody officer.

Griffiths, 38, was at Wagamama at the St David’s 2 shopping centre in Cardiff city centre on October 13 when he started throwing bottles and tables at staff and security officers. Diners feared for their safety and were left upset as a result of the incident. A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court^[92] on Friday heard Griffiths caused a total of £4,780 worth of damage.

Alan Meredith

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He threatened to “chop up” another man during a row and then went round to his ex-partner’s house – who he was banned from contacting – with a knife and demanded she cook him a steak before he headbutted one of her neighbours, a court heard.^[93]

Meredith, 40, was seen walking with a woman in Barry^[94] on the evening of July 18. She had blood on her face and was asking for someone to call the police. When a man offered to do just that Meredith said “no-one is gong to call the police”. He than ran towards the man and kicked him in the back and said “I’m going to chop you up”. The man was able to run away and found safety in a block of flats until Meredith left the scene. For the latest court reports, sign up to our crime newsletter here^[95].

Anas Al Mustafa

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The Swansea van driver was sentenced to 10 years in prison^[96] for smuggling migrants in a hidden compartment in his van after they were discovered screaming for help as they were starved of oxygen.

Al Mustafa, 43, was convicted of assisting unlawful migration by trafficking the seven people in a specially-adapted van via a ferry between Dieppe in France and Newhaven, East Sussex on February 16. The discovery at the East Sussex port sparked a major emergency services response with ambulances, police and Border Force in attendance.

Mohammed Uddin

Swansea cocaine dealer Mohammed Uddin was sentenced to four years in prison (Image: South Wales Police)

This man turned to drug dealing after hiring a flash car for a wedding and crashing it^[97]. Uddin believed he owned £80,000 for the smashed up motor and, not wanting his parents to re-mortgage their property to pay the bill, he became a large-scale cocaine trafficker.

Sending the former takeaway worker to prison a judge said it was a matter of “considerable regret” to the court that a man in Uddin’s position with no previous convictions had committed such serious offending and found himself in the dock facing jail. The 24-year-old defendant was sentenced to four years in prison.

Ami Wheeler

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The drug dealer who was found to be selling cocaine sobbed as she was jailed and asked a judge “What about my kids?^[98]“. She attempted to claim she had been manipulated by an ex boyfriend but she was said to have played a leading role in the enterprise.

Wheeler, 32, was discovered after police spotted a drug deal taking place at her home in Church Village^[99], near Pontypridd^[100], on October 14 last year. Officers saw a man approaching the house and another man passed an item to him.

Corey Li

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The robber walked into a petrol station with a ‘handgun’ and pointed it at the cashier’s face.^[101] Li, of Tudor Avenue, Rhostyllen, Wrexham^[102], held up the Esso garage on Wrexham Road in Rhostyllen with an accomplice on June 8.

They both had their faces hidden – Li with a scarf – and both had their hoods up and wore gloves. The cashier Richard Wright was around the back of the shop but when he returned, Li and his accomplice were there to greet him and Li shouted at him to give him the money, reports North Wales Live.^[103]

Jordan Dixon

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A mother and son attacked a teenager outside a primary school^[104] in Newport^[105] which resulted in him suffering a fractured cheek and eye socket. The teenager was knocked to the ground by the son, and his injuries required surgery.

Jordan Dixon, 26, and Michelle Dixon, 45, attacked the victim on March 7. Parents were collecting their children from the school and feared for their safety.^[106]

Omar Karshe

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The serial thief attempted to burgle a house before he was discovered by the homeowner as her baby slept upstairs^[107]. The victim, who suffered with postnatal psychosis, said the incident made her condition worse.

Karshe, 43, attempted to burgle the house in Cardiff^[108] at around 12.20am on March 4. He had tried numerous doors in the vicinity and opened the victim’s door before poking his torso past the threshold.

Christian Matthews

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The “predatory and depraved” paedophile sent videos of babies being raped and people being murdered to two teenage girls he spoke to online^[109]. He also sent pictures of himself performing a sex act, tried to convince his victims to send naked pictures of themselves and told one of them to “kill herself”.

Matthews, 23, of Bridgend^[110], sent disgusting images to the girls he began speaking to on online platforms over a period of months. Both of the victims were 13 years old at the time of the conversations, with the defendant pretending he was a 16-year-old boy.

Carl Higgins

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The homeless man who stole alcohol from supermarkets has been jailed for almost two years^[111] after his failure to comply with court orders. His barrister said he would likely appear before the courts again or lose his life unless he changes his lifestyle.

Higgins, 41, entered a Tesco store in Cardiff^[112] on July 12 and stole alcohol worth £49. He managed to escape with the goods at the time but was later detected on CCTV.

Naomi Davies

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The woman burgled bars and food businesses and carried out a series of bizarre acts^[113] including putting on a chef’s jacket, turning off fridges and opening gas taps, and going to the toilet on the floor.

Davies then assaulted a bar manager after being confronted in staff toilets before shouting and swearing at police who found her in the street. The 43-year-old’s advocate said his client’s life had “unravelled” and she had found herself homeless. He described the case as “exceptionally sad” but said there were “glimmers of hope” for the mother.

Ricky Perkins

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The BMW driver travelling at almost double the speed limit in poor weather^[114] lost control of his vehicle before aquaplaning into a layby and killing a man. Ricky Perkins, 32, was driving eastbound along the A4063 Aberkenfig bypass at 89mph when his car struck 49-year-old Byron Jeanes^[115].

A sentencing hearing at Newport^[116] Crown Court on Monday was told the crash happened at 5.45am on January 20, 2021 in a 50mph zone near a busy motorway junction.

Joshua O’Sullivan and Emmanuel Adewole

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A massive Swansea-based cannabis trafficking operation was dealing in hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of the drug, a court heard.^[117] O’Sullivan was in charge of the operation buying and selling multiple kilos of cannabis and employing “professional couriers” to transport cash and drugs around Britain.

Swansea Crown Court^[118] heard the enterprise was taken down following an investigation by Tarian, the southern Welsh organised crime unit, which included tracking the movement of cars and carrying out covert surveillance of a flat in Swansea^[119] Marina.

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32. ^{^} Swansea Crown Court (www.walesonline.co.uk)
33. ^{^} pattern of physically and emotionally abusive behaviour (www.walesonline.co.uk)
34. ^{^} hit his partner with a scaffolding pole. A (www.walesonline.co.uk)
35. ^{^} Barry (www.walesonline.co.uk)
36. ^{^} Caernarfon (www.dailypost.co.uk)
37. ^{^} spoke to a 15-year-old girl on the phone while in prison (www.walesonline.co.uk)
38. ^{^} Swansea Crown Court (www.walesonline.co.uk)
39. ^{^} here. (www.walesonline.co.uk)
40. ^{^} suffered a panic attack (www.walesonline.co.uk)
41. ^{^} Cardiff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
42. ^{^} Flintshire (www.dailypost.co.uk)
43. ^{^} Read his sentence. (www.walesonline.co.uk)
44. ^{^} Cardiff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
45. ^{^} Read his sentencing here. (www.walesonline.co.uk)
46. ^{^} Swansea (www.walesonline.co.uk)
47. ^{^} Read the sentencing here. (www.walesonline.co.uk)
48. ^{^} serial burglar broke into the home of a renowned chef (www.walesonline.co.uk)
49. ^{^} Cardiff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
50. ^{^} Pontcanna (www.walesonline.co.uk)
51. ^{^} made multiple journeys between Cardiff and Birmingham (www.walesonline.co.uk)
52. ^{^} Cardiff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
53. ^{^} threw bar stools at the landlady of the bar in a racially-aggravated assault (www.walesonline.co.uk)
54. ^{^} Swansea Crown Crown (www.walesonline.co.uk)
55. ^{^} she told him they couldn’t get a dog (www.walesonline.co.uk)
56. ^{^} Cardiff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
57. ^{^} burglar brazenly pretended to be policeman (www.walesonline.co.uk)
58. ^{^} Jailed for assaulting two police officers (www.walesonline.co.uk)
59. ^{^} Caernarfon (www.dailypost.co.uk)
60. ^{^} North Wales Police (www.dailypost.co.uk)
61. ^{^} Gwynedd (www.dailypost.co.uk)
62. ^{^} chased his ex-partner into the bathroom of her house (www.walesonline.co.uk)
63. ^{^} Cardiff Crown Court (www.walesonline.co.uk)
64. ^{^} ran the so-called Spice drugs line (www.walesonline.co.uk)
65. ^{^} Cardiff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
66. ^{^} Penarth (www.walesonline.co.uk)
67. ^{^} a trial heard (www.walesonline.co.uk)
68. ^{^} advertising drugs to hundreds of customers. (www.walesonline.co.uk)
69. ^{^} Cardiff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
70. ^{^} tasered after strangling his girlfriend on a beach (www.walesonline.co.uk)
71. ^{^} Porthcawl (www.walesonline.co.uk)
72. ^{^} Swansea Crown Court (www.walesonline.co.uk)
73. ^{^} Read the sentencing here. (www.walesonline.co.uk)
74. ^{^} organised crime group flooded a Welsh town (www.walesonline.co.uk)
75. ^{^} Aberystwyth (www.walesonline.co.uk)
76. ^{^} jealous man beat up his partner three times in a week (www.walesonline.co.uk)
77. ^{^} stamped three times on a man’s head (www.walesonline.co.uk)
78. ^{^} Cardiff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
79. ^{^} two muggers set upon a man wandering the streets (www.walesonline.co.uk)
80. ^{^} Swansea Crown Court (www.walesonline.co.uk)
81. ^{^} driver kidnapped a man and threatened him with a knife (www.walesonline.co.uk)
82. ^{^} Sully (www.walesonline.co.uk)
83. ^{^} Vale of Glamorgan (www.walesonline.co.uk)
84. ^{^} £50,000 that had been loaded into a van (www.walesonline.co.uk)
85. ^{^} Caerphilly (www.walesonline.co.uk)
86. ^{^} sexually assaulted a schoolgirl (www.walesonline.co.uk)
87. ^{^} Bridgend (www.walesonline.co.uk)
88. ^{^} admitted to making £7,000 from selling Class A drugs (www.walesonline.co.uk)
89. ^{^} Caerphilly (www.walesonline.co.uk)
90. ^{^} threw drinks and tables at staff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
91. ^{^} Cardiff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
92. ^{^} Cardiff Crown Court (www.walesonline.co.uk)
93. ^{^} a court heard. (www.walesonline.co.uk)
94. ^{^} Barry (www.walesonline.co.uk)
95. ^{^} sign up to our crime newsletter here (www.walesonline.co.uk)
96. ^{^} sentenced to 10 years in prison (www.walesonline.co.uk)
97. ^{^} hiring a flash car for a wedding and crashing it (www.walesonline.co.uk)
98. ^{^} asked a judge “What about my kids? (www.walesonline.co.uk)
99. ^{^} Church Village (www.walesonline.co.uk)
100. ^{^} Pontypridd (www.walesonline.co.uk)
101. ^{^} pointed it at the cashier’s face. (www.walesonline.co.uk)
102. ^{^} Wrexham (www.walesonline.co.uk)
103. ^{^} reports North Wales Live. (www.dailypost.co.uk)
104. ^{^} school (www.walesonline.co.uk)
105. ^{^} Newport (www.walesonline.co.uk)
106. ^{^} collecting their children from the school and feared for their safety. (www.walesonline.co.uk)
107. ^{^} the homeowner as her baby slept upstairs (www.walesonline.co.uk)
108. ^{^} Cardiff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
109. ^{^} he spoke to online (www.walesonline.co.uk)
110. ^{^} Bridgend (www.walesonline.co.uk)
111. ^{^} jailed for almost two years (www.walesonline.co.uk)
112. ^{^} Cardiff (www.walesonline.co.uk)
113. ^{^} burgled bars and food businesses and carried out a series of bizarre acts (www.walesonline.co.uk)
114. ^{^} weather (www.walesonline.co.uk)
115. ^{^} struck 49-year-old Byron Jeanes (www.walesonline.co.uk)
116. ^{^} Newport (www.walesonline.co.uk)
117. ^{^} a court heard. (www.walesonline.co.uk)
118. ^{^} Swansea Crown Court (www.walesonline.co.uk)
119. ^{^} Swansea (www.walesonline.co.uk)