Lloyd Davies and Callum Pascoe (Image: Gwent Police)
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A pair of drug dealers who generated more than £300,000 through the supply of cocaine and cannabis across Newport and the Gwent Valleys will hand back less than £17,000 between them – with one of the men ordered to repay just £1.
Lloyd Davies, 24, of Aubrey Hames Close, Newport, and Callum Pascoe, 23, of St David’s Drive, Graig-Y-Rhacca, Caerphilly, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court for a proceeds of crime hearing.
The money
Davies was assessed as having benefited by £100,008.08 through his criminal conduct but was found to possess no realisable assets. He was ordered to pay a nominal figure of £1.
Pascoe’s benefit was calculated at £196,498.24, with recoverable assets totalling £16,873.21 – the full amount he was ordered to hand over.
How they were caught
The pair had been sentenced at Newport Crown Court in August 2025 after a Gwent Police investigation that began with a raid on Davies’ home address.
Leah Pollard, prosecuting, told the court that Davies had voluntarily provided the PIN code for his mobile phone. When detectives examined the device, they found messages revealing he had been buying cocaine from Pascoe.
Analysis of both men’s phones then uncovered further evidence showing the pair were also involved in selling cannabis. Officers discovered tick lists, “text bombs”, and a trail of drug-related communications stored across their devices.
Guilty pleas and sentences
Davies and Pascoe each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and being concerned in the supply of cannabis. Pascoe admitted an additional count of being concerned in the supply of cocaine.
Davies was jailed for three years and nine months, while Pascoe received a sentence of four years and eight months.
Davies had two previous convictions for two offences, though neither was drug-related.
Mitigation
Davies’ barrister Jac Brown told the sentencing hearing that his client had first begun using cocaine at the age of 16 and had turned to dealing in order to clear debts he had built up. Brown said Davies had engaged with support services in prison to address his substance misuse.
Michael Lawson, representing Pascoe, said: “In essence he’s a one-man band who supplied to users and on occasion supplied to Mr Lloyd Davies.”
Lawson added that Pascoe had also become involved in dealing after falling into debt through his own drug use.
Judge’s remarks
Judge Celia Hughes told the pair they “knew full well what they were getting into when they bought and sold drugs”.
