Cardiff drug dealer must repay £1,700 of £166k benefit
A Cardiff drug dealer who benefited by £166,184 from his crimes has been ordered to pay back just over £1,700. Louis Moates was jailed for 187 weeks after two police raids on his home.
A Cardiff drug dealer who benefited by £166,184 from his crimes has been ordered to pay back just over £1,700. Louis Moates was jailed for 187 weeks after two police raids on his home.
Jamie Evans threw a wheelie bin through the window of the Taff Street shop, then rang police from outside the station saying he was struggling and wanted to go back to jail. He has been sentenced to one month in prison.
A Barry teenager has been jailed for 32 months after stealing an Audi from a Sully home while a family slept upstairs. He was on licence from a young offender institution at the time.
Timothy Purcell, 44, was found guilty by a jury of seven child sex offences involving a girl aged between 13 and 15. He was jailed for eight years at Cardiff Crown Court.
Faduno Hajiali, 43, was given an immediate two-year sentence at Cardiff Crown Court after starting a fire in her Godfrey Road flat while drunk.
Daniel Merry, 36, has been jailed for four years and four months at Cardiff Crown Court. Police stopped a van linked to him over a missing MOT, and a later search found cash, a crossbow and messages connecting him to drug supply.
A woman who profited by £867,689 from a £3.5m class A drugs conspiracy across south Wales and the south-west of England has been given a nominal £1 confiscation order after a court heard she has no available assets.
Ryan Watts, 28, has been jailed after forcing his way into a house in Abertillery and hitting a locked bedroom door where the man inside had shut himself away.
Daniel Hickey, 78, has been sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting a series of sexual offences against a girl two decades ago.
Deri Thomas, 47, stole metal sheets worth almost £61,000 from Flamgard Engineering in Pontypool, with help from an unidentified van driver. He received a suspended sentence at Cardiff Crown Court.
Gary Jones, 38, from Church Village, has been jailed at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting three burglaries, a vehicle theft and possessing cocaine. More than £18,000 worth of goods was taken in the ram raid style break-ins in February 2026.
A Fleur-de-Lys woman used friends, family and Facebook contacts to move almost £900,000 from her employers into her own account over nearly six years. She has been jailed for four years and four months.