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.
Newport teen drug dealer sentenced to 18 months in custody
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.
Man jailed after breaking Wales footballer’s jaw
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.
Man jailed for petrol bombing restaurant in racist attack
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.
Man caught in sting after chats with fake ‘schoolgirls’
Matthew Lewis, from Pontypool, believed he was chatting with underage girls but was caught by paedophile hunters and sentenced at Newport Crown Court.
Cathays man jailed for 18 years for child rape
Julian Hobbs, 36, was sentenced at Merthyr Crown Court after being convicted of multiple sexual offences against a girl under 13.
Paedophile jailed again after hoarding child abuse images
David Cwiklinski, 52, from Magor, was sentenced to three years and two months at Newport Crown Court after nearly 1,000 indecent images were found at his home.
Drug dealer’s Banksy art seized as he’s told to pay £233k
Christopher Scrivens, who was jailed for importing cannabis from California, has been ordered to pay back £233,737 at Newport Crown Court or face a further three years behind bars.
Romance fraudster who posed as spy jailed for five years
Rodney Roberts, 40, from Cardiff, used the alias Paul Smith to con three women out of nearly £50,000 through online dating platforms between 2021 and 2024.
Man jailed after leaving pub customer with brain bleed
Jordan Coles, 29, repeatedly punched and kicked stroke victim William Murphy in the head after drinking in an Abergavenny pub, leaving him with a bleed on the brain.
Man jailed after biting partner and throwing knife
Marley Burgess, 26, from Cardiff, was sentenced to 17 months at Newport Crown Court after admitting to a string of violent assaults against his partner.
Newport thug jailed for 40 months over domestic abuse
Benjamin Bird, 36, from Newport was sentenced at Newport Crown Court after admitting a string of domestic violence offences against his former partner, including strangulation and suffocation.