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.

Dominic Price, 37, of Llantwit Fardre, told a customer that men from Cardiff would stab him, put him in a van and kill him unless he repaid a drug debt. He was jailed for 27 months at Cardiff Crown Court.

John Price, 49, was caught with 1,200 indecent images of children and told undercover officers he wanted to meet a woman and her eight-year-old niece. He was given a suspended sentence at Cardiff Crown Court.

Basher Ali Tareb, 20, told officers “Don’t tell my dad” when they arrived at his Butetown home after child abuse images were uploaded to a Snapchat account in his name.