Three 20-year-old men have been sent to a young offender institution for a combined 18 years after a South Wales Police investigation into a crack cocaine operation. Detectives found the group had used a teenage boy to run their drugs while they took the profits.
Christopher Phillips, 60, has been jailed for two years and four months after concealing his mother’s death and profiting financially from it. Officers found Sylvia Phillips’ body in a freezer at a Poplar Crescent address in Porthcawl.
Deacon Facey was caught with a ‘burner’ phone, £55 in cash and pregabalin tablets after officers watched him near City Road. He has been jailed for 32 months.
A Gwent Police dog tracked down a man concealed behind a false wall at a 313-plant cannabis factory on an industrial estate in Aberbargoed. Albert Hysaj, 42, has been jailed for six months, while a second man received a suspended sentence.
Carl Jubin, 40, has been jailed for two years at Cardiff Crown Court after forcing his way behind the counter at a Spar in Bridgend and knocking a shopkeeper to the ground. The worker of 18 years said the robbery had left her frightened and unable to sleep.
Patrick Duggan, banned from driving since 1994, repeatedly reversed into a police car during a pursuit through Abertillery, causing £28,000 of damage. He was jailed for 19 months at Cardiff Crown Court and disqualified for a further three years and nine months.
Lee Scarfe, 38, of Aberdare, was found to have benefited by £545,935.89 from his role in a Rhondda Cynon Taf cocaine line. A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Cardiff Crown Court ordered him to repay £4,860 – all he has left.
Shujer Hussain, 45, was sentenced to three and a half years at Cardiff Crown Court after Gwent Police recovered wraps of cocaine and heroin, cash and burner phones from his Newport home. Messages on his phone showed he had been supplying crack cocaine and heroin at street level.
Kian Bateman, 19, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 17 years for the murder of Shelley Davies, 38, who was struck by a car outside a social club in Caerau.
Macauley Hughes, 29, of Merthyr Tydfil, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting drug supply offences uncovered during a stop search at Cardiff Central station.
Deacon Watkins, 21, of Newport, struck his stepfather in the face with a baseball bat modified with staples during a confrontation in February 2024. He received a nine-month suspended sentence at Cardiff Crown Court.
Lynda Cooper has been sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting 11 animal welfare offences linked to an unlicensed breeding operation at her Pontypool home, where 41 dogs and two litters of puppies were discovered in unsuitable conditions.