Four men from Weston-super-Mare have been sentenced to a combined 55 and a half years in prison after launching a petrol-fuelled arson attack on the home of an 82-year-old grandmother in Ferndale, causing around £650,000 in damage.
Prestatyn woman jailed for life for murder of ex-partner
Aurin Makepeace, 43, has been sentenced to life with a minimum of 27 years for stabbing Steven Rothwell at his flat in Macclesfield.
‘The General’ caught with £16,000 drug stash at Risca home
Joland Giwa, 36, a notorious London gangster relocated to south Wales, has been jailed for 47 months after police found crack cocaine, heroin and cocaine at his home in Risca.
Cwmbran cocaine dealer jailed for 30 months
Corey Richards, 27, admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine in Cwmbran over a nine-month period and was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court.
People smugglers ran secret operation from Caerphilly car wash
Dilshad Shamo and Ali Khdir have been jailed for a total of 38 years after using a hand car wash in Caerphilly as a front for a large-scale people smuggling network moving migrants across Europe.
Man jailed for pouring urine over partner in abuse campaign
Rhys Chalmers, 46, of Penrhys, was sentenced to 25 months at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court after admitting controlling and coercive behaviour against his former partner.
Abertillery woman jailed again after assaulting police officers
Alison Sanders, 50, was sentenced to 12 weeks at Newport Magistrates’ Court after admitting attacks on two officers and a woman.
Man shared hundreds of child abuse images with paedophile network
Jamie McCallum, 46, of Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire, was sentenced to 13 months at Swansea Crown Court after admitting distributing indecent images of children to 29 online contacts.
Two Porth men jailed for drug supply after dental selfie breakthrough
Coran Davies, 23, and Dale Howell, 25, were sentenced at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court for supplying cocaine and cannabis. Davies was identified through facial recognition technology used on a photo found on a seized phone.
Former BBC and ITV presenter jailed for breaching sex offender rules
Peter Rowell, 67, formerly of the Abergavenny area, has been sent back to prison for 24 weeks after admitting he twice failed to tell police he had been at an address where a child lived.
Two care workers admit neglecting victim in Newport
Richard Smith, 58, and Nicola Sibley, 44, pleaded guilty at Newport Magistrates’ Court to ill-treating or wilfully neglecting a person in their care in January 2024.
Cardiff mother sentenced for child neglect after home horrors
A mother from Cardiff has been given a suspended prison sentence after her children were found “pale, weak and drowsy” in a home covered in animal faeces, with a dead dog in the kitchen.