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

Here are the faces of 91 people who have been jailed for the most serious crimes in Wales in the past month. This list includes a man who killed a father when he punched him outside a Wetherspoon pub. The perpetrator attempted to wake the victim up, by dragging him around and slapping him to the face but the victim died four days later in hospital. There is also a man who drove a bulldozer into a village pub and caused £22,000 worth of damage after a comment was made about his marriage ending. A pensioner was also jailed after he "tormented" a neighbour with a "campaign of harassment" A convicted paedophile was locked up again after he used the computers in his local library to share images of children being sexually abused. Once again there is a shocking number of men who were jailed for crimes committed against women. They include a civil engineer who harassed and stalked his former partner and her new boyfriend. Another man raped a woman while she slept due to sexual frustration he felt in his own marriage. Don’t miss a court report by signing up to our crime newsletter here A woman who worked in a bank was locked up after she pocketed thousands of pounds from vulnerable customers to pay for a lavish lifestyle. You can find a round-up of the criminals jailed in April here . Here are the criminals and their crimes. He killed a father by punching him outside a Wetherspoons pub. Kyle O'Callaghan was silent and emotionless as he was led down to the cells after being sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for the manslaughter of Marcus Carpenter. The 37-year-old died in hospital four days after he was punched outside the Ebbw Vale pub that was packed with drinkers at the time. O'Callaghan fled the scene and a £10,000 Crimestoppers appeal was launched for information. The court heard the 30-year-old defendant had asked his victim: "Do you want to come outside and have a word with me a minute?." Both men walked to an alleyway outside the pub where O'Callaghan punched Mr Carpenter to the face. They continued talking for a couple of minutes before Mr Carpenter tried to walk away but the O'Callaghan grabbed his fleece and punched him a second time causing him to snap his head back onto railings. O'Callaghan attempted to wake the victim up by dragging him around and slapping him to the face but Mr Carpenter remained unconscious. The paedophile who sexually abused two young girls gave one of his victims a sexually transmitted disease during the course of the abuse . David Lake subjected the children to a catalogue of sexual offending while threatening and intimidating his victims into remaining silent. The offending happened two decades ago but it is only in recent years the victims have come forward. In statements read from the witness box of Swansea Crown Court the women detailed the impact of Lake's abuse on their lives. One woman described how she had gown up feeling "dirty and ashamed" and had spent much of her life hating herself. She said the trauma of what she went through "shaped who I am". Sentencing him to 25 years in prison the judge told 57-year-old Lake he was a "typical pathetic paedophile" who "isolates and manipulates" victims while convincing people around him that he was a family man living a normal life. He drove a bulldozer into a village pub and caused £22,000 worth of damage after a comment was made about his marriage ending. Daniel Morgan took the vehicle from his father's farm and drove it into the New Inn pub in Rhigos after the comment was made. The 35-year-old was a regular drinker at the New Inn pub and was a friend of landlord Christopher Common. On December 4 last year Morgan was drinking and staring at a man after a comment was made about his failing marriage. After leaving he texted Mr Common and said: "Be careful, you can't stop a dozer" and: "It will be a drive-through" . After driving into the pub he continued his rampage after driving over vehicles belonging to his family and was only stopped after his father used a digger to damage the bulldozer. He was sentenced to 40 months imprisonment. The paedophile sexually abused a young girl who was just five years old when the abuse began. The victim's mother said her daughter had been left "afraid, confused, and unable to sleep" due to the actions of her abuser Matthew Toyer and made an attempt on her own life after being cross-examined in court. The 46-year-old assaulted his victim by penetrating her, which caused her pain, and forced her to touch his penis. He told the victim not to tell anyone about the abuse but matters came to a head when she made a comment to her mother which caused alarm. In a victim impact statement read to the court the mother said the actions of the former businessman and reservist firefighter "took her [daughter's] innocence." "We will never truly know the full extent of what she had endured. It's clear it had been happening for some time," she added. Toyer was sentenced to 15 years in prison, with an extended licence period of one year, having been found to be a dangerous offender. The personal trainer groomed a vulnerable 15-year-old girl he met on social media, a court has heard. Paedophile Andrew Eldred called himself the child's "king" and her "pimp" and referred to her as his "slave" and his "pet". The 35-year-old father-of-three also told her she should get his name tattooed on her neck, made references to her "birthing" his children, told her he was "coming for your virginity", and called himself "the master of disaster". He continued to prey upon his victim even after being arrested and released on police bail. Sentencing Eldred to 11 years in prison a judge at Swansea Crown Court said his actions towards a girl he knew to be vulnerable had been "calculated, manipulative, and exploitative". The teenager caused a number of young girls to make attempts on their own lives after he forced them to perform degrading sexual acts on camera with threats. Kyle Fisher even forced one girl to engage in sexual activity with a dog by saying if she did not he would post images of her online. The 19-year-old targeted 20 young girls aged between 10 and 15 online and coerced them into sending images of themselves before threatening to publish the images on the internet or send them to friends and family. He then demanded they send videos of themselves performing graphic sexual acts, beginning a countdown if they did not immediately comply. He was aged 15 and 16 at the time of the offences. Sentencing him to 10 years detention in a young offenders' institution a judge told him: "Your victims suffered serious emotional and psychological harm and their parents have also suffered greatly... It's important to state the responsibility and blame lies with you and you alone." Scott Evans "recruited" a vulnerable woman to attack his former's partner's house with the promise of payment in a wrap of drugs. But rather than smashing the ex's house windows as the pair had plotted she torched the victim's car. The Mercedes was engulfed in flames after Chelsea Williams poured petrol over the bonnet and ignited it and a judge said it was a "miracle" the arsonist did not set fire to herself in the incident. The court heard that on the night of January 16 this year Evans' ex went out with friends in Swansea before returning home to Llanelli and parking her car. The following morning she was woken by the sound of the alarm on her Mercedes A-Class activating and when she looked out of the window she saw the vehicle was ablaze. Given Evans' recent behaviour towards her the complainant immediately suspected her ex had been involved. Evans was sentenced to 10 months in prison while Williams was sentenced to 21 months in prison. A woman feared her ex-partner Maximin Carter had "booby-trapped" her home and suspected he had made bombs. Homes were evacuated and military specialists were called to a quiet terraced street in Abergwynfi, Neath Port Talbot , after Carter's former partner contacted police with concerns about what was in her property. While no explosives were found at the address in Commercial Street the 51-year-old had been storing a number of weapons including an air rifle along with a "substantial amount of ammunition", a knuckleduster, four telescopic truncheons, and a ninja sword at his ex-partner's address. Carter's former partner contacted police on Valentine's Day with concerns about the weapons in her home including plastic bottles filled with polystyrene she feared were bombs. A search of the property involved military resources and a major incident was declared. He was sentenced to a total of five and a half years in prison. He raped a woman while she slept while he was likely sexually frustrated in his own marriage, a court heard. The victim thought she could have been left pregnant by her attacker. Kyle Plummer, 32, of Mountain Ash, and the victim had attended the same venue in 2023 and had been drinking alcohol. Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard the pair agreed to walk back to Plummer's home to talk and the victim felt dizzy and lay down for a nap. After she had fallen asleep the defendant took the opportunity to lie down next to her, remove her trousers and underwear, and then raped her. She woke up during the incident and told him to get off her. Plummer denied a charge of rape but he was found guilty by a jury following a trial. The child rapist was told he may never be released from prison after being handed a life sentence for a catalogue of sickening crimes against young girls. Daniel Bremner systematically raped and sexual assaulted four different children in a campaign of abuse lasting years. The 35-year-old filmed some of the attacks on his phone. The court heard that even after pleading guilty Bremner minimised his actions, blamed his consumption of alcohol and cannabis, and took little responsibility for what he did. The court heard that the abuse came to light when one of the victims made disclosures in school . Bremner was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 15 years. The sex offender who sent a disgusting video to what he believed to be a 12-year-old girl persistently breached a court order designed to control his online activities. Over the period of almost 12 months Stewart Alderton concealed mobile phones from police, deleted chats and social media apps, and hid his internet browsing history. The court heard that in November 2021 Alderton was given a suspended prison sentence after sending a video of himself masturbating to what he thought was a 12-year-old girl but was actually a "decoy" account. As part of that sentence Alderton was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) which, among other conditions, required him to register phones and mobile devices with police and make them available for inspection at any time. During 2025 a series of home visits by police officers and offender managers found persistent breaches of the terms of the order. He was sentenced to 22 months in prison. The couple assaulted a man after inviting him to their home where they pushed him into a filled bath and threw pasta sauce at him. He fled after the police arrived and was initially arrested after the woman accused him of sexually assaulting her. Mark Hagland, 54, and Tracy Williams, 39, attacked Moussa Ayeb at the latter's home in Cardiff on December 7, 2023. The victim suffered what the judge described as "very serious injuries" in the assault including multiple rib fractures. The obsessed stalker bombarded an ex partner with messages, calls, and social media posts and told her: "You are mine. You will always be mine." Matthew Samuel also turned up at the school the woman's children attend wearing a balaclava and pretended to be his victim's cousin in order to call the police about her. The offending began shortly after the 35-year-old was released from prison having served a sentence for stalking the same woman and making her life a "misery". Swansea Crown Court heard Samuel has a history of stalking and harassing former partners. Sending him back to prison with a three-year sentence a judge called the defendant "an extremely jealous, very immature man who simply needs to grow up" and said he poses a risk to women. The paedophile who forced a young girl to perform a sexual act upon him was described as a "wolf in sheep's clothing" by his victim. The abuse was hidden for decades after he threatened to kill himself if his victim told anyone about what he had done. Martin Pugh, 58, of Newport, was convicted of gross indecency with a child after a trial having denied committing the offence against his victim who bravely stood up in court and addressed "the man who deceived everyone". The court heard his victim was just 10 years old when he abused her. The victim said an image of Pugh's face during the abuse continued to "haunt her". The serving prisoner used a mobile phone hidden in his cell to have sexual conversatons with someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. Ryan Hawkins was in fact talking to a decoy account set up by a paedophile hunter group. The 40-year-old was serving a sentence at HMP Prescoed, near Usk, Monmouthshire , after he had been jailed for committing a robbery. While in custody he managed to conceal a mobile phone, a wifi dongle, and a charger in a sock hidden in a door frame. The conversations with the decoy included Hawkins talking about masturbation and asking the decoy if she fancied him. He said she was "fit" and asked her for pictures as well as telling her she had a "lovely bum and boobs". The Nationwide cashier pocketed thousands of pounds from vulnerable customers to pay for a lavish lifestyle of luxury holidays. Kelly Kershaw, 54, was investigated after colleagues became suspicious over how she could afford her jet-set lifestyle to far flung parts of the world. The mother-of-two posted pictures of skiing trips, safaris, and romantic European getaways on her Facebook page where she bragged she was "living and loving life one adventure at a time". But a court heard Kershaw, who had worked for the building society for 17 years, was making fake cash withdrawals from elderly or vulnerable customers and pocketing their money after she joined the Caernarfon branch in June 2020. The convicted rapist was brought to justice almost 20 years after raping a woman who made a complaint to police after her attacker was jailed for committing a separate sexual offence. She was left sobbing on the floor and feeling "worthless" after the man attempted to "sweet talk" her before raping her. Dean Edwards, 48, was intoxicated through drink and drugs when he raped his victim after he had attended her home in Cardiff and asked to be let in. The victim refused but he didn't take no for an answer and attempted to "sweet talk" his way into the house. A convicted paedophile who sexually assaulted a young girl was jailed again after he breached a court order after he was found in possession of equipment which he used to download indecent images of children. The images depicted children as young as two years old being sexually abused. Marc Fox, 50, was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) in 2006 after he was convicted of three counts of indecently assaulting a girl as well as possessing indecent images of children. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment with an extended licence period of four years. A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court heard Fox was further convicted in 2016 for possessing indecent images and in 2022 for distributing an indecent image. But last year police visited his address where he was found with more child sexual abuse images. Sentencing him to three years imprisonment a judge told him: "You are a 50-year-old paedophile with a troubling history of sexual offending . You have been before the courts on a number of occasions and it does not seem to have deterred you in any way." He racially abused, assaulted, and threatened to rape police, threatened to stab shop workers in the neck, and hit a man in a pub over the head with a hammer in a three-month period. On one occasion 20-year-old Rasheed Jama became racially abusive towards officers, using slurs, before biting, spitting, and making threats. He was heard to say "heil Hitler", "kill the Jews", the N-word, "I will rape someone tonight" and "I hope your mum gets cancer". In a separate incident Jama was asked to leave Foot Locker in St David's Shopping Centre in Cardiff by a security guard when he made a threat to return and stab staff members in the neck. When police turned up at the scene he acted abusively towards them including a female officer who he threatened to rape. He also used racial slurs towards another officer in behaviour described in a victim impact statement as "disgusting and vulgar" and some of the worst they had encountered. He reversed into a woman on purpose and ran over her on her own driveway. She became trapped and had to be rescued by firefighters, suffering fractured ribs and various other injuries, as her children looked on in horror. Morgan Davison, 27, intended to teach his victim a "lesson" after bullying and mocking her following an argument with her husband about the sale of a car engine. In her victim personal statement the victim said: "I haven't left my home for a significant period of time over a fear of leaving the house. I have felt anxious and have suffered panic attacks. It has become so severe I have had to stop to get help." The lorry driver wanted sex with a 14-year-old girl and to be her "perv uncle". Former solider Williams talked about having sex with the child with someone he believed was her father but was in fact an online undercover police officer. Sending the 51-year-old to prison a judge at Cardiff Crown Court said a pre-sentence report had concluded Williams was a dangerous offender and his "sexual preference for pre-pubescent females" was currently "unmanageable" in the community. He headbutted and throttled his partner after an argument outside the pub. Martin Guard's assault on the woman only stopped when a staff member at the Wetherspoon bar in Llanelli rushed out and intervened. After the woman fled the scene Guard trashed her flat and then when in custody he attacked two officers who tried to stop him harming himself, punching one in the face and grabbing another by the testicles. Swansea Crown Court heard Guard has more than 140 previous offences on his record including robbery, possession of offensive weapons, drug offences, assaults, and domestic violence and that in 2021 he was sent to prison for punching, choking, and stamping on his then-partner before hitting her in the head with a baseball bat. The masked and hooded man robbed two corner shops at knifepoint in the space of a week. After snatching hundreds of pounds in the first "successful" raid an emboldened Daniel Thomas physically assaulted and threated to stab staff in the second raid. Both robberies in the Aberavon area have had profound effects on the shop workers concerned. The 40-year-old has 73 previous offences on his record. Sentencing him to another stint in prison the judge told him: "You have wasted a substantial proportion of your life in prison. As a result of this you will waste more". He stamped on the head and face of his unconscious neighbour as the victim lay helpless on the floor. James Grenfell left his victim in hospital with a badly bruised and swollen face and a "reduced level of consciousness". A judge said the 47-year-old had subjected his former friend to a beating in a "shocking loss of temper" after they had been chatting and drinking whisky seemingly without issue. It wasn't clear what happened in the flat prior to the assault, but a neighbour heard Grenfell shouting words to the effect of: "Don't say anything about my kids" and: "I'm going to f****** kill you" before opening their door to find him stamping on the victim. Grenfell was sentenced to 38 months in prison. A convicted paedophile used the computers in his local library to share images of children being sexually abused. Euwyn Draper, who has previously been jailed for possessing indecent images, had secret social media accounts which he had not disclosed to police including which he used to have sexually explicit conversations with a like-minded male online. The offending was exposed after the the 22-year-old became flustered when being asked about his online activities by his offender manager. A man used the spoke of a bicycle wheel to stab someone in the neck during a confrontation in a Swansea street . Daniel Pridmore had been involved in an altercation with the male at nearby flats before the violence spilled out onto the street in front passing pedestrians and motorists. It was one of the witnesses who intervened and bravely put himself between the two men. Swansea Crown Court heard 39-year-old Pridmore has 75 previous offences on his record including possession of a bladed article, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, robbery, public disorder, and common assault. Sending him back to prison a judge said to describe him as a "habitual offender" would be "something of an understatement". The married man has been jailed after experiencing a "grotesque mid-life crisis" when he had a one-night stand then armed himself with a knife and threatened a man with a knife before effectively abducting him in a fit of jealousy. David Dallimore was arrested by armed police officers as he forced his victim to drive them away from the scene in his work van. The 37-year-old's barrister told Swansea Crown Court despite what his client had done he hopes to return to the family and "make amends" and hopes his wife is prepared to "give him a second chance". The civil engineer harassed and stalked his former partner and her new boyfriend. Steve Price would drive slowly past his ex's house "with the window of the car wound down while staring at the property" . When Price's former partner began a new relationship in June 2024 he then turned his attention to him and started turning up at his place of work and his home addressing trying to "goad" him. On one occasion the 49-year-old asked him: "How would your father feel if you had a cracked skull?" The court also heard in an incident unrelated to the Price's ex and her new partner the defendant sexually assaulted a woman at a property in the Swansea Valley by touching her breasts and putting his hands down her trouser bottoms. The pensioner who "tormented" a neighbour with a "campaign of harassment" was locked up and slapped with a 10-year restraining order. A judge said 70-year-old Michael Mathews had made his victim's life "a misery" and he told the defendant that unless he changed his ways he would be leading the quiet life he claimed to want in a cell in Swansea Prison. Swansea Crown Court that following a series of incidents involving Matthews and a neighbour during 2025, including the victim's car being damaged with a dumbbell, the pensioner was handed a suspended prison sentence and made subject to a two-year restraining order in the July of that year. However the court heard that Matthews continued his "verbally abusive behaviour" towards the neighbour, often making the comments directly into the camera of his victim's video doorbell and on occasions accompanying the words with obscene gestures. A rogue builder who took more than £80,000 in deposits without completing any work gave customers "staggering" excuses including claiming his van had exploded. On one occasion Lee Brown claimed he had a broken ankle but customers saw a JustGiving page set up by him stating that he planned to run 100 miles for charity. The 45-year-old also threatened to call police on customers if they posted a negative review about him online and laughed at customers who were waiting for him to complete work after they saw him on a neighbouring building site. Despite appearing in court and being placed on bail Brown continued to take deposits from unsuspecting customers and used a false company name. Sentencing him to three years and four months in prison a judge told him: "The range of excuses you provided to people was staggering and you appeared to have no shame." The former Tata Steel worker was jailed after he was caught running a cocaine and cannabis edibles supply operation. Darren Phillips was intercepted by police en route to a customer with thousand of pounds worth of cocaine in his car – though he claimed he was merely driving to the hospital. Swansea Crown Court heard when officers searched the house Phillips shared with his partner Melissa Barry they found a stash of THC, or cannabis edibles, in packets and jars, while messages found on the phone of Phillips' car passenger Thomas Chislett showed he was promoting "Chissy's sweet shop". Chislett was given a suspended prison sentence. He is the only member of a gang who invaded the home of a family to be caught. A terrified mum and her children had to barricade themselves in as the thugs smashed their way into the family home and trashed the place before stealing the mum's car and driving off. Cardiff Crown Court heard it was likely the gang raided the property in the belief the occupants were involved in organised crime and had a large stash of cannabis without realising that their intended targets had moved out just a few weeks before and a wholly innocent family had moved in. Samples of blood found near the smashed bathroom window were taken for testing by scenes of crime officers and were linked to 39-year-old Liman Xhebexhia. He has been locked up for four and a half years but the other intruders, believed to number four, remain at large. The former student assaulted and racially abused shop workers and a police officer after taking a cocktail of drugs which made him feel intoxicated and paranoid. Aladje Balde later told police he had no memory of the attacks and told them he "couldn't be racist" as he was a black man. The 23-year-old attempted to enter a Greggs store in Cardiff Bay on April 23 but was stopped from doing so by the manager as they were not yet open. He responded by attempting to intimidate the manager and came close to his face before grabbing his shirt collar, eventually slapping her to the face with an open palm. Balde then moved onto Tesco Express nearby and approached a security guard before punching him twice to the mouth. He told the security guard: "You're a f****** Pakistani. I will kill you." He sexually assaulted a nurse while he was drunk in hospital before going on to assault and racially abuse police officers. Jason Ford later claimed he had no memory of the incidents but a judge chastised him for his behaviour. The 37-year-old committed a string of offences on January 31 which began with him assaulting a woman in the King Alfred pub in Maesteg after making inappropriate comments towards her. Ford was ushered out of the pub and the emergency services were called and took him to hospital. A nurse had just finished her shift but was grabbed by Ford who asked for help . He then grabbed her right breast with force causing her immense pain . After hospital security were called he picked up a fire extinguisher and brandished it towards a nurse who feared he would throw it at her. He later assaulted and abused police officers who arrived. The brothers conned sellers on Facebook Marketplace out of more than £30,000 after using a fake banking app to con them into handing over expensive items without paying. When they were rumbled by sellers they resorted to threatening violence or running off with the items including watches, phones, and laptops. Bernie McDonagh, 20, and Thomas McDonagh, 23, carried out a number of frauds in Cardiff and parts of England in 2023 after they used a fake account to contact sellers on social media to express interest in high-value items. They would then turn up to their addresses and take the items while tricking them into thinking they had paid. He pursued an ex-partner and forced her car off the road before confronting her with a knife. David Smith then slashed the tyres on his victim's car before torching her garage and taking to the hills where he was arrested by armed officers. A judge at Swansea Crown Court said the 43-year-old's actions had constituted "a form of revenge attack" and she said he had used his car "as a weapon" to frighten his ex. He led police on a car chase which saw him travel at more than 100mph before telling officers he was “the biggest criminal in Wales” after he was stopped. During the police pursuit Elliott Fiteni travelled at 107mph in a 50mph zone and 90mph in a 30mph zone and at one stage lost control of the car while aquaplaning. He also travelled on the wrong side of the road. The 24-year-old was eventually stopped and ran into a nearby garden with an officer chasing him on foot until he was stopped. When walking back to the police vehicle he was asked to confirm his identity and whether he was Elliott Fiteni and at first said: “I’ve never heard of him” but when asked again he responded: “You know my name – Ellott Fiteni, the biggest criminal in Wales. And what? And what? F*** you.” He threatened to put a gun in his father's mouth and "torture" him. The threat was one of a number made by Jamie Lewis despite being subject to a restraining order banning him from contacting his dad or posting anything about him online. Swansea Crown Court heard Lewis had been abusing and threatening his father and making a series of vile false allegations against him for a prolonged period, which has left the victim and his partner living in a constant state of fear, stress, anxiety, and uncertainty. Despite a restraining order in February this year the dad was made aware of things his son had been posting about him on social media including posts which made a series of false allegations about him and in which Lewis said he hoped his dad died of Aids. In 2018 the 42-year-old was jailed for threatening to pour petrol through his father's letterbox, burn his house down, and threatening to cut the head off his dad's dog during a series of abusive and homophobic phone calls. He has been jailed again for breaching the restraining order and making threats to kill. He dominated his partner during their relationship and told her he would pay someone to throw acid in her face. The violent thug caused a 3cm wound to his partner's thigh after she brandished a knife in fear and he overpowered her before pushing the weapon forcefully into her. Damien Smith went on to assault her on three further occasions, which culminated in him stamping on her head when she tried to end the relationship. Reading out her own statement to the court the victim said she was "unable to relax and in a constant state of fear." The 44-year-old was sentenced to 108 weeks imprisonment. He made chilling threats to kill his own mother after she refused to give him money to buy drugs. Tyran Webber ignored a restraining order to incessantly contact his mother, threatening to throw her off a car park roof and to contact people to hurt her. Tyran Webber, 37, of Cardiff, contacted his victim at the beginning of 2026 despite the fact he had been ordered by a court to leave her alone. He demanded money from her and threatened to harm her if she did not agree to give him cash. She met him to give him £10 in the hope he would leave her alone. But he forced himself into her car and demanded the victim drive him somewhere to get him more money and as she drove he spat in her face twice. He was not long out of prison when he threatened to chop off a teenager's fingers with an axe. The teenager was so concerned by the menacing phone call that he fled his home shortly before Michael Cullen turned up at the property armed with a hammer. Swansea Crown Court heard the background to the threat was money owed for damage done to a borrowed car with Cullen volunteering to take the role of debt enforcer. He left a neighbour with multiple cuts and a scar after pushing a glass jar into her face after he took offence at her asking if she could purchase blinds from him . The victim said she did not feel safe after the assault and had made an attempt on her own life. Griffith Prosser, 56, attacked his neighbour in her own garden at her home in Merthyr Tydfil on October 5 last year. It was an unprovoked assault which took place just hours after the victim had attended his home to buy a pair of blinds. The burglar lashed out at a father who tried to stop him from stealing his wife's car after he broke into his house and took the keys. The victim was left feeling "hypervigilant" and concerned for his family. Danny Lewis, 34, burgled a house in Newport on February 23 when he was spooked by one of the victims, causing him to flee. The court heard he has more than 20 previous convictions including seven previous offences of burglary. Members of an organised crime gang involved in supplying Class A drugs with a street value of more than £3.5m were sentenced to more than 40 years imprisonment combined. The members were in touch with an upstream supplier who used an alias in order to avoid detection from police. Urszula Glowacka, 42, Aleksander Lala, 30, Pawel Kobis, 46, Nazif Lala, 25, and Jamie Davies, 29, were part of a group responsible for the supply of millions of pounds worth of cocaine, crack cocaine, MDMA, methamphetamine, and ketamine in south Wales and the south-west of England. He was working in a Llanelli cannabis farm but told police he was only visiting the town to go to the beach. Despite his claim police had already raided the cannabis factory where Mateo Allmunca was working as a gardener tending a crop worth more than £80,000. The Albanian national later came clean saying he had paid £20,000 to people smugglers to get him into the UK and that he was working off the debt he owed the gang by looking after the cannabis operation. He threatened to slit the throats of his housemates after smashing crockery in the kitchen before racially abusing them and telling them to "go back to their own country". Richard McLoughlin also referred to his housemates as foreigners and "wanted them out of Newport immediately". The 51-year-old was living at a multi-occupancy house in Newport but on March 28 he could be heard smashing crockery in the kitchen which woke up other people living in the property. Another resident told the defendant to be quiet and he responded by threatening to break his jaw. McLoughlin later shouted that everyone in the house was going to die in the morning, saying: "I will slit your throats. I have a knife." The man branded a "sexual danger to children" by a judge has been jailed after not telling police about his new bank cards. The cards were discovered after Timothy Ayres was arrested on suspicion of engaging in sexual communications with a child. As well as previous sexual offences Ayres has convictions for using his knowledge of the dark web to run a business selling counterfeit currency which he boasted was "easy to pass in shops". He stole jewellery of great sentimental value from a friend who was ill in hospital. Kevin Bowles acted as an unofficial carer to the woman and would help her around the house but when she was laid up in a hospital bed he abused that trust to steal rings, including her wedding ring, and take money from her bank account. The victim had known Bowles since he was a boy and considered herself a friend of the family. While she was in hospital Bowles had taken 16 of her rings rings from a jewellery box in the bedroom as well as documents like her marriage certificate and her husband's death certificate. He had also transferred £1,000 from the woman's bank account into his own account. Bowles' barrister told Swansea Crown Court that the 55-year-old wanted to apologise to his victim for what had been a "particularly mean offence". He was sentenced to 22 months in prison. The drug dealer was arrested as he stepped off a plane from a holiday on a Mediterranean island. Officers were waiting on the tarmac at Bristol Airport to detain Kane Evans as he jetted home from a break in Cyprus. Detectives had been investigating the defendant since November 2025 when he was arrested following a raid on a property in Cardiff during which a rucksack containing drugs was thrown out of a window. Evans has now been sent down for 40 months with South Wales Police saying the 29-year-old defendant had thought he had got away with his involvement in the drugs trade but "his holiday blues quickly set in" when he saw who was waiting for him. He was only released from prison in March but is back behind bars. Kieran Desmond was riding an electric scooter in Cardiff on April 10 when police attempted to stop him. He ran away from police and threw a rucksack into a garden which was found to contain £2,000 worth of cannabis. A lot of the drugs were in “deal-sized amounts” in clear snap bags. The homeless man smashed a vase into the face of a friend who had offered him a place to stay for the night. Robert Smith then tried to drag the terrified woman into the shower to wash the blood off her face. A judge told the 35-year-old, who has more than 60 previous offences on his record, that over the years he must have cost "decent hardworking people who pay their taxes" a fortune, and he told Smith the time may have come for him to change his life and "pay back a little of what others have invested in you". Smith replied: "Yes sir". Drug-dealing brothers who were both involved in supplying cocaine were raided by police who seized drugs and thousands of pounds in cash. Adam Challenger, 44, and Luke Challenger, 33, were subject to early morning warrants by police who attended their respective properties at 2.45am. Both homes, in the Rassau area of Ebbw Vale , were searched by counter-terrorism officers. At Adam Challenger's home officers seized cocaine, cannabis, knives, £72,155 in cash, scales, a knuckleduster, axes, arrows, a crossbow, phones, and empty packaging which contained traces of white powder. Luke Challenger's home was found to contain cocaine, scales, £1,617 in cash, phones, snap bags, empty packaging containing traces of white powder, arrows, a knife, and a slingshot. A barber was jailed after being caught selling illegal tobacco and vapes. Iranian national Many Kirimi was found with thousands of pounds worth of counterfeit tobacco and cigarettes and illegal vapes when trading standards and police raided the shop where he was working. A judge at Swansea Crown Court said the sale of such products was "becoming a scourge within our communities" and he said shops selling them were often set up by organised criminal gangs with the purpose of making money. The court heard he has a previous conviction from Newport Crown Court from 2023 for "similar offences" for which he was handed a community order. Kirimi had arrived in UK illegally from Iran and had been given leave to remain in the county for five years. Sentencing him to two years in prison the judge told the 23-year-old: "You are mocking the generosity of the authorities in this country." He pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to supply but it turned out he had been duped by a bag of bicarbonate of soda . Tests showed the bag of white powder Tony Pike had in his house wasn't what he thought it was. Sending the 23-year-old to prison a judge at Swansea Crown Court said it was clear the defendant had "lost his way" in life but it was to be hoped that with the help of his family he could get back on the right path. The budding chiropractor from London was caught in a Welsh city with almost 400 deals of cocaine and crack cocaine. Keoma Favourite was caught by a plain-clothed police officer in an area city described as a "haven" for drug use and dealing. The 21-year-old refused to reveal the pin for his phones and insists he was acting alone in renting an Airbnb in the city and selling drugs in order make money. The prosecutor said police believe he was involved in a north London-based county lines drug dealing operation. The Range Rover-driving cocaine dealer was caught after police found out where he was topping up his drugs phone. When police raided Chad White's house they found he had been keeping thousands of pound in cash hidden behind a bed along with stash of cocaine inside a pair of designer boots. A judge at Swansea Crown Court said it was clear the 34-year-old had been making "significant sums of money" and told him a proceeds of crime investigation would now be launched into his finances and if he had any assets they would be taken away. He punched his fists through the kitchen window of his former partner's house and threatened to murder her before taking her by the throat and squeezing. Alex Thomas had only been out of prison for a matter of days when he attacked the woman in her own home. Cardiff Crown Court heard the 21-year-old has five previous convictions for 10 offences including assault by beating, inflicting grievous bodily harm, criminal damage, and breaching a restraining order. A pre-sentence report concluded Thomas poses a serious risk to women. The court heard Thomas accepted he had been drinking alcohol on the night in question and had "acted in a jealous way" and said he now understands the relationship with the complainant is over. The plasterer with a home, infant child, and pregnant partner has been sent to jail after police linked him to a drugs phone. The mobile had been recovered during a raid on a house in the summer of 2024 and an examination of the device found it had been used by multiple people each with their own sim card. Some 12 months later one of those users, Shane Kelly, was arrested in a pub after extensive efforts by detectives to trace him. Police later found Facebook and phone messages which showed that the 36-year-old had been supplying cocaine directly to users as well as to another dealer. He was found hiding in a cupboard when police raided a Swansea cannabis farm. An officer cracked open the door of the cupboard and spotted Antonjo Kodheli during a search of the property in Bryn Y Môr Crescent, Uplands. The 42-year-old then slowly emerged from the small space he was hidden in, holding his hands up after being asked to by the officer, before he was quickly handcuffed. A total of 539 cannabis plants were found across eight rooms in the property. He helped his partner beat up her ex. The victim thought he was going to die at their hands. Gareth Wallace grabbed the victim around the neck until he passed out. The victim suffered fractured ribs, cuts, and bruises to his face and arms, a wound near one eye, and a wound to the top of the head which required surgery to fit staples and had to spend two days in hospital as a result of the assault. The drug dealer who lost his job was found in possession of more than £50,000 worth of Class A drugs and a machete when he was pulled over by police. In his police interview Thomas Doyle claimed he had stopped to help fix a friend's car and the drugs did not belong to him. The 23-year-old was said to have issues with gambling and had racked up a £15,000 debt which he was dealing to pay off after losing his job. Sentencing him to 42 months imprisonment the judge said: "You know when you began selling drugs you were taking a risk with your freedom." He answered his drug-dealing phone expecting to speak to a customer but found himself talking to police. Detectives had obtained Samuel Harvard's number after downloading data from a phone previously seized as part of a different investigation and after calling him went to his home to arrest him. Messages on the mobile showed he was receiving instructions from an unknown person about delivering drugs. The messages also revealed that as well as making drop-offs at the request of another Harvard had been involved in drug dealing in his own regard and had been getting supplies on tick which he was then selling to his own customers. He was sentenced to 34 months in prison. The drink-driver stole his friend's partner's car before leading police on a chase where he reached speeds of 80mph in a 20mph zone. A stinger was used to attempt to stop the car but he carried on driving regardless. Corey Eaves, 28, had been staying at the address of Chloe Smith but in the early hours of April 26 he took the keys to her Nissan Juke and drove it away from the property while making a "vulgar gesture" towards her. Police later tried to stop him but according to the judge who sentenced him to 16 months imprisonment his driving was "utterly disgraceful". The drug dealer was found in possession of almost £2,500 worth of cocaine after police raided his girlfriend's home which she shared with her two young children. Lloyd Bailey, 34, was also found in possession of a mobile phone which contained messages related to supplying cocaine. A drug dealer recruited a runner to work for him with an offer of a motorbike and £50 a day. Harry Hassan's operation was taken down by police after they arrested a different dealer and found Hassan was his "upstream supplier" – the person who was supplying him with his stocks of drugs. Swansea Crown Court heard police subsequently executed a series of simultaneous search warrants at addresses in a Swansea community and arrested Hassan along with his lieutenants Callum Choudhury and Robert Maunder. Officers also recovered a safe containing cocaine and a drugs phone the gang had been using. Sending them to prison a judge told the trio each had played their part in supplying drugs to people in the community either motivated by greed or by a desire to fund their own habit . The drug dealer evaded capture for two months after he was found to have sent bulk messages to customers advertising heroin and crack cocaine. Leighton Lewis later said he was working to feed his own addiction to both drugs. The 33-year-old came to the attention of the police after messages sent from him were found on the phone of another supplier. Two phone lines, referred to as the "Leighton lines", were linked to the him containing messages discussing debts, weights, pricing, and customers. He joined his older brother in prison after being convicted of the same offence. Both Ryan Tucker and Nathan Tucker were running their own cocaine-dealing operations from the family home in Port Talbot and were both sourcing their supplies from Merseyside. A judge at Swansea Crown Court told Ryan Tucker that as he approaches his 30th year he needs to decide whether he is going to continue to offending or turn his life around. He shared more than a thousand indecent images of children with other paedophiles. Shaun Moran admitted distributing 1,318 indecent photographs and videos of children online, hundreds of which were described as being of the "most obscene" category. The factory worker was jailed after he was revealed as a drug dealer by Snapchat messages. Neil Espin's barrister said his client had been able to cope with his long-term crack habit and was a "functioning addict" who was involved in supplying drugs to people he knew. Sending the 46-year-old down a judge at Cardiff Crown Court said Espin as a man of "mature years" would have been aware of the damage he was doing to others by facilitating the supplying of Class A, B, and C drugs. The thief who broke into a couple's home and attempted to steal two of their vehicles was caught after his DNA was left on a steering wheel. The victims said they had been left "immensely paranoid" as a result of the burglary and more security conscious. Michael Truman and an accomplice entered the utility room of a house in Newport while the owners were in the living room watching television . One of the victims heard the door squeaking at the property in Rogerstone and caught the two burglars in the act trying to the vehicles and managed to stop them. In a victim impact statement read to the court one of the victims said the 36-year-old's actions have left them feeling unsafe in their own home. He was jailed more than five years after he fled the UK where police wanted him for drug offences. The drug dealer, from Swansea, skipped bail and went on the run to France then ended up in a notorious French prison where he was brutally attacked and abused. Keith Storer had to be put in solitary confinement for his own safety before being moved from the designated foreign nationals drugs prison where he was being held. He was jailed in France for being concerned in the supply of controlled drugs. More than five years after he fled the UK the 51-year-old appeared at Swansea Crown Court where he was sent down with a judge saying he could see no prospect of rehabilitation. The drug dealer was found in possession of more than £20,000 worth of cocaine and had messages on his phone which revealed he was involved in supplying the drug. Daryl Bees was told by a judge that his trade in such substances causes "misery" to others. The judge added: "You were playing a significant role to supply these drugs in the Rhondda Valley at the time of your arrest." The 33-year-old from Tonypandy was sentenced to 40 months imprisonment. He was caught dealing drugs after thousands of messages relating to their sale was found on phones he owned. Cardiff Crown Court heard how Joshua Jones attended a probation appointment when he was arrested and his phone was seized along with £225. Police had obtained information that he was linked to two drug lines and he was found to be the owner of both. The court heard the 27-year-old had a £10,000 debt which he needed to repay. The cocaine dealer who boasted about his prices on Snapchat became involved in the world of drugs after being "served more than a pint" in his local pub. Jones was caught after police arrested another dealer and found that dealer had been buying supplies of cocaine from the defendant. Police also found Jones was selling directly to users and was boasting in Snapchat messages that his "prices won't be beaten". A Wetherspoon customer was followed out of the pub and attacked in the street by a group of people who had spent Christmas Day morning drinking in the bar. Jorie Rees, Hayley Murphy, Daniel Evans, and Jackson Greensalde set upon their victim as he sat on a bench and repeatedly punched and kicked him before making off. All four defendants have now been locked up for what a judge at Swansea Crown Court described as an attack displaying a "pack mentality". A fifth individual involved in the incident has not been found and remains at large. He drove 200 miles to a Welsh town for a "clean-up job" at a large-scale cannabis farm. Bilal Shabir was intercepted by police as he crossed the border to return home to England with dozens of bin bags full of harvested cannabis worth more than £130,000 in the back of his van. The Stoke man's barrister told Swansea Crown Court her client wished to apologise to the court for getting involved in such offending in Wales. He was sentenced to 40 weeks in prison. He left numerous threatening and abusive voicemails to his victim in breach of previous bail conditions. Robert Davies, 54 , left 11 voicemails to his victim in which he threatened to stab them to death. He also said they would need to be in witness protection to be safe from him. Contacting the victim was a breach of his bail conditions for a previous offence in which Davies already been told not to contact the victim. A drug-dealing couple were found in possession of cocaine after being pulled over by the police. The man was found in possession of a lock knife while the woman had £1,000 of cocaine in a sock. Christian Byrne, 42, and Kristina Lang, 25, were stopped by police on Boxing Day last year while Byrne was driving a Vauxhall Corsa on the A48 between Chepstow and Caldicot. He was driving while disqualified and without insurance and as a result he was pulled over, which resulted in the drugs and knife being found. Byrne was locked up while Lang was given a suspended sentence. Get daily breaking news updates on your phone by joining our WhatsApp community here . We occasionally treat members to special offers, promotions and ads from us and our partners. See our Privacy Notice .