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.

Alexander Webber, 29, of Bridgend, gave a 16-year-old girl cocaine before having sex with her. He admitted three counts of sexual activity with a girl by an adult in a position of trust.

Gift Ayoola, 19, directed children as young as two to perform sexual acts on video calls, then sold the footage to paedophiles – one paid him £5,000. He was jailed for four years at Cardiff Crown Court.

Mark Jones, 63, was found by police doing up his jeans and belt minutes after making a forbidden search – one of eight breaches of an order imposed after his 2020 conviction for possessing indecent images of children.

David Walsh, 42, of Caerau, admitted raping a woman as she slept and strangling her. A judge ruled him a dangerous offender and imposed an extended sentence at Cardiff Crown Court.

Mark Donovan was caught with crystal meth in Newport and Cardiff before a raid on his Rogerstone home uncovered a range of drugs. He was given a suspended sentence at Cardiff Crown Court.

Royston Vincent, 40, was handed a suspended sentence at Cardiff Crown Court after 279 indecent images of children were found on his devices. Chat logs showed him discussing swapping material with other paedophiles.