A 48-year-old serial burglar was caught walking through Mount Pleasant drinking milk stolen from a family home. Stephen Tarling has been jailed for more than three years.

A former couple jailed for running a cocaine supply network in Swansea and the Amman Valley have been ordered to pay back criminal proceeds and made subject to serious crime prevention orders.

Brian Nicol, 58, was sentenced to 16 months at Swansea Crown Court after admitting assaulting a woman he accused of spiking his wife.

The head of a cocaine trafficking gang which moved drugs from the West Midlands to south west Wales was found with a £13,000 Rolex in prison that was not among his possessions when he was arrested. A proceeds of crime hearing heard the watch’s ownership is now in dispute.

Luke Rogers, 40, of Wolfscastle, was sentenced to two years at Swansea Crown Court after deceiving an employer about his criminal history and driving licence while subject to a sexual harm prevention order.

Corey Goldup, 28, of Trebanos, was told by a Swansea Crown Court judge he was “very fortunate” after a recent change in sentencing law saved him from immediate custody.

Liza Haines, 54, who was jailed for four years in December for defrauding Pembrokeshire organisation Sazani Associates, has been hit with a Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation order.

Rio Thomas, 19, sent sexual messages and masturbation videos to a stranger on Facebook just a month after being released from detention for sexual offences against a child. He was sentenced to 16 months at Swansea Crown Court.

Thomas Morgan, 22, of Winch Wen, was sentenced to 41 months after police discovered thousands of pounds stashed around his property and messages linking him to cocaine supply.

Scott Mullen, 32, of Duffryn, Newport, was classified as a dangerous offender at Swansea Crown Court and handed an eight-year extended sentence after amassing child abuse material and attempting to deceive the court with a fabricated report.

A Swansea man has been jailed for 40 months after police found cocaine wraps and drug supply messages when they stopped the car he was travelling in. His driver was sentenced to 27 months.

A former DVLA worker who used a chapel near his home as a meeting point for cocaine customers has been jailed for three and a half years at Swansea Crown Court.