Robin Vecchi was caught by paedophile hunting group Dank Dragon after encouraging what he believed was a teenage girl to perform a sexual act. He was handed a community order at Newport Crown Court.

Owen Evans, 39, of Barry, was sentenced to seven years in custody with a three-year extended licence at Newport Crown Court after admitting child sex offences against a 13-year-old girl.

George Evans, 21, was given a suspended sentence at Newport Crown Court after pleading guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, with 565 of the most serious category found on his mobile phone.

Benjamin Bannan, 20, was given a suspended sentence at Newport Crown Court after admitting intentional strangulation and suffocation and being found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Luke Stanley, 35, was sentenced to 47 months at Newport Crown Court after admitting eight breaches of a sexual harm prevention order.

Ryan Thomas, 33, of Abercarn, Caerphilly, was found guilty at Newport Crown Court of sexually touching a 14-year-old girl and sending indecent images. He will be sentenced on April 15.

Iestyn Compton, 22, from Aberkenfig, was given a 12-month suspended sentence at Newport Crown Court after posing as a teenage girl to send sexual messages to who he believed was a 12-year-old boy – but was in fact a decoy police officer.

A teenager who dealt cocaine and heroin on the streets of Newport while funding a £100-a-day cannabis addiction has been sent to a young offender institution for 18 months.

David Williams, 41, punched Laura Banks outside her Tredegar home, fracturing her jaw in two places and ending her football career. He was sentenced to 21 months at Newport Crown Court.

Leon Morris, 38, hurled a petrol bomb at Pengam Spice while 10 people, including two children, slept upstairs in what a judge described as a racially aggravated attack.

Matthew Lewis, from Pontypool, believed he was chatting with underage girls but was caught by paedophile hunters and sentenced at Newport Crown Court.

Julian Hobbs, 36, was sentenced at Merthyr Crown Court after being convicted of multiple sexual offences against a girl under 13.