Kara Racuoco twice produced a needle when challenged by security at Asda in Llanelli, once claiming she owned the supermarket. She has been jailed for four years after admitting two robberies and two thefts.

Gary Longfield, 43, was found guilty of rape and assault by penetration after taking a drunk young woman back to his house from a Pembrokeshire nightclub. He continues to deny the offences.

Shaun Peters, 37, was caught with cannabis, vapes, edibles and up to £10,000 in cash less than a year after being handed a suspended sentence for the same offending. A recorder at Swansea Crown Court jailed him for 36 months.

Jonathan Yeandle was caught after a foot chase on Prince of Wales Road, then bailed – and within weeks was texting users that he was “available all night”. He has been jailed for 44 months.

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.