John Hitchman Small was ordered to pay almost £1,000 at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court after inspectors found serious safety failings at a property on Cowbridge Road East.
Newport drug gang to repay under £1,000 of £250k profits
Three Newport drug dealers who made more than £250,000 from supplying cocaine and cannabis will hand back less than £1,000 after a proceeds of crime hearing at Cardiff Crown Court found their assets had been almost entirely spent or hidden.
Neath murderer found dead in prison cell after weeks of chaos
Emmett Morrison, 40, took his own life at HMP Long Lartin less than two years into a life sentence for the murder of neighbour Timothy Dundon. A prisons ombudsman report has revealed the disturbing details of his final weeks in custody.
Serial shoplifter jailed for 44 weeks after Blackwood area theft spree
Andrew Wyatt, 36, of no fixed abode, was sentenced at Newport Magistrates’ Court after admitting six thefts from businesses across the Caerphilly county borough totalling more than £1,500.
Ebbw Vale flasher put on sex offenders register
Philip Drake, 38, was handed a suspended sentence at Newport Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to exposure and breaching a non-molestation order.
Three jailed over Swansea cocaine supply operation
The leader of a cocaine dealing network in Swansea has been jailed for four years after police traced the operation back to him through the phone of another dealer. Two associates were also sentenced at Swansea Crown Court.
Ebbw Vale man fined for sharing intimate image without consent
Mackenzie Bennett, 21, of Pennant Street, Ebbw Vale, pleaded guilty at Newport Magistrates’ Court and was ordered to pay £971.
Man smashed vase into friend’s face after she offered him a bed
Robert Smith, 35, attacked a woman who had invited him to stay the night at her Aberystwyth home. He has been sentenced to 15 months in prison at Swansea Crown Court.
Swansea pensioner jailed for harassing neighbour
Michael Matthews, 70, was sentenced to 20 months at Swansea Crown Court after admitting five breaches of a restraining order. A judge also imposed a 10-year restraining order.
Swansea man jailed for threatening to put gun in father’s mouth
Jamie Lee Lewis, 42, of Brynmill, Swansea, was sentenced to 18 months at Swansea Crown Court after admitting threats to kill, breaching a restraining order, and shoplifting.
Essex man sentenced for abuse of Pembrokeshire woman
Patrick Smyth, 50, from Essex, has been sentenced to 22 months in prison at Swansea Crown Court after pleading guilty to coercive and controlling behaviour and other offences against a woman in Pembrokeshire.
Man banned from Newport shopping centre after killing pigeon
Leigh Dixon, 44, of Bettws, Newport, pleaded guilty at Newport Magistrates’ Court to killing a wild bird under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and a public order offence. He will be sentenced on June 3.