£82,401 seized from 75-year-old Gwynedd heroin dealer
A 75-year-old Rachub man jailed for dealing heroin has had £82,401 in cash and criminal assets ordered to be forfeited at Caernarfon Crown Court.
A 75-year-old Rachub man jailed for dealing heroin has had £82,401 in cash and criminal assets ordered to be forfeited at Caernarfon Crown Court.
A woman who profited by £867,689 from a £3.5m class A drugs conspiracy across south Wales and the south-west of England has been given a nominal £1 confiscation order after a court heard she has no available assets.
Ryan Watts, 28, has been jailed after forcing his way into a house in Abertillery and hitting a locked bedroom door where the man inside had shut himself away.
Daniel Hickey, 78, has been sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting a series of sexual offences against a girl two decades ago.
Lee Southan, 40, waved a kitchen knife and a sock filled with glass ornaments on Bridge Street before setting off a fire extinguisher at a police officer. He has been jailed for a total of 18 months.
David Blount abused a primary school age girl in the Swansea area in the early 2000s and then bullied her into silence. She reported him to police around 20 years later.
A Cwmbran man who handled an electric bike stolen from Gwent Police has been jailed at Newport Magistrates’ Court. He also admitted taking £20 worth of cider and lager from a shop on the same day.
Matthew Bailey, 37, of Bonymaen, has been jailed for two years and six months for sexually abusing two young girls around 20 years ago. Police praised both victims for coming forward.
A 30-year-old man of no fixed abode spat at officers, urinated in a police vehicle and damaged a custody cell. The offences also triggered a suspended sentence from earlier offending.
A Colwyn Bay man has been jailed for four years and five months for coercive control, strangulation, criminal damage and breaching a protection order. He was sentenced at Caernarfon Crown Court.
Ian Stanton, 58, has been jailed for 38 months after police found cocaine and around £5,500 in cash at his property. Margaret Lewis, 63, who was inside when officers forced entry, received a suspended sentence.
Adam Doughton, 34, of Blackwood, admitted performing sexual acts on another person in a public place in Newport on August 22, 2026. He was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a £26 surcharge.