Gang stole £1m in tin from Tata Steel’s Llanelli works
Three Tata Steel employees and an accomplice conspired to steal almost 49 tons of tin valued at more than £1 million from the Trostre Steelworks in Llanelli.
Three Tata Steel employees and an accomplice conspired to steal almost 49 tons of tin valued at more than £1 million from the Trostre Steelworks in Llanelli.
Luke Montgomery, 23, of Newport, was ordered to pay back £37,449 at a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Cardiff Crown Court despite benefiting by £191,821 through drug offences. He had previously been sentenced to eight years and four months' imprisonment.
Levi Weekes, 25, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting to assaulting a prison officer at the Bridgend jail, leaving the victim with a fractured vertebra.
Two drug dealers who made £306,000 from cocaine and cannabis supply in Newport and the Gwent Valleys have been ordered to repay less than £17,000 at a proceeds of crime hearing - with one told to pay back just £1.
Alfie Phillips, 26, of Victoria Avenue, Newport, was sentenced to five years and 219 days at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting his involvement in supplying heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine.
Corey Eaves, 28, of Gilfach Goch, was sentenced to 16 months in prison after stealing a car and leading police on a dangerous pursuit through Tonyrefail at four times the speed limit.
John Watton, 52, of Holway, Flintshire, has been sentenced to 16 months at Mold Crown Court after sending explicit messages and an indecent image to a decoy posing as a 10-year-old girl.
Kyle Plummer, 32, received an extended sentence at Cardiff Crown Court after being found guilty of rape following a three-day trial.
A 39-year-old Tredegar man has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years after a gang smashed their way into a family home in Ebbw Vale, forcing a mother and her three children to barricade themselves in a bedroom. The gang had targeted the wrong address.
Morgan Davison, 27, from Pontardawe, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after deliberately reversing his car into a woman on her Cardiff driveway, leaving her trapped beneath the vehicle with fractured ribs.
David Cousins, 29, of Nash Drive, Newport, was sentenced to 40 weeks in prison by Judge Eugene Egan after being caught driving while disqualified on three separate occasions this year.
Mateo Allmunca, 24, told police he was only in Llanelli to visit the beach, but officers found he had a key to the flat housing 89 cannabis plants worth up to £82,000.