Ciaran McConnell, 37, put his phone in a sock and struck a 20-year-old outside a New Quay sports bar, leaving him needing emergency brain surgery. He was jailed for 15 months at Swansea Crown Court.

Tom Collis, Christopher Jones, Taylor Moran and Callum Edwards-Pritchard were sentenced at Swansea Crown Court after South Wales Police seized cocaine, ketamine and cash in raids across the city.

Mohangopi Tadiboyina, 30, attacked a woman walking alone on Kings Road at night in October 2024. He was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court after being found guilty of attempted rape and sexual assault.

Barrie Wilks blocked his neighbour’s cameras, made menacing faces into her CCTV while holding a hammer and painted her fence green while under a restraining order. A judge said he seemed determined to make her life a misery.

Carl Jubin, 40, was sentenced to two years at Swansea Crown Court after admitting robbing a Spar shop on Ewenny Road in Bridgend. CCTV showed him pushing a shop worker to the floor before stealing a vape.

Louis Davids-Watson, 37, admitted three counts of making indecent photographs of children, including category A material. Swansea Crown Court imposed a 12-month sentence suspended for two years, along with a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.

Ben James, 28, insisted the kilo-level deals discussed in his text messages were exaggeration and that he lacked the means to buy at that scale. A judge at Swansea Crown Court rejected his account and jailed him for six and a half years.

Martin Roberts, 36, followed two women through Swansea city centre shops and looked up one of their skirts in a Tesco aisle, a day after being released from prison on licence. A judge told him he was “undeterrable” before jailing him for three years.

Tyler Mitchell, 22, was found with 850 indecent images of children after police seized phones belonging to him. A judge at Swansea Crown Court handed him a suspended sentence.

Christopher Ponting, 37, filmed the jury and judge from the public gallery at Swansea Crown Court, causing a murder trial to collapse and restart. He has been jailed for eight months.

Callum Chadwick, 26, of Barn Street, Haverfordwest, was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court after using mass advertising texts to sell cocaine over a period of nearly two years. A judge said he had been “less than honest” about the scale of his dealing.

Louise Harris drank a bottle of vodka from her client’s fridge before screaming abuse at the 81-year-old dementia sufferer she had been hired to care for. A judge at Swansea Crown Court told her the treatment had been “heartless and cruel”.