Corey Roberts (Image: South Wales Police)
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Two brothers have been sentenced at Swansea Crown Court after an attack on a woman was followed by a campaign of threatening messages that caused her case to collapse.
Jordan Roberts, who at the time held a non-uniformed support post at HMP Parc, avoided immediate custody for the assault. His older brother Corey was sent straight to prison for trying to frighten the complainant out of testifying.
The assault
The relationship between Jordan Roberts and the woman had run for around three years by September 2023, when she went to his Croeserw home to challenge him over his infidelity. Prosecutor Regan Walters told the court that Roberts turned aggressive during the confrontation, sinking his teeth into her forearm before reaching for a bottle of milk and tipping it over her – an act the prosecution characterised as “gratuitous degradation”.
What happened next
Roberts then telephoned the woman’s mother and instructed her to come and fetch her daughter. Arriving at the property, the mother discovered her daughter on the floor in tears, her hair “dripping wet”.
Medical staff at the Princess of Wales Hospital later recorded circular bruising to the woman’s right forearm.
Interviewed after his arrest, Roberts turned the account on its head, insisting that it was the woman who had attacked him and that anything he did was self-defence. He entered a not guilty plea to the charge that followed.
The trial that never happened
Matters unravelled on the morning the case was listed for trial. The complainant revealed that Corey Roberts had been bombarding her sister-in-law with text messages that abused both her and her family.
She told how the messages had left her frightened, to the point where she began questioning whether to press on with the prosecution at all. The proceedings were abandoned and detectives opened a fresh investigation into the older brother.
The defendants
Jordan Roberts, 30, of Penhydd Road, Croeserw, Cymmer, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He has a clean record.
Corey Roberts, 31, of Alma Street, Treherbert, Treorchy, admitted witness intimidation. Nine offences across three previous convictions stand against his name.
He was already under a 33-week suspended sentence at the time he sent the texts, imposed in June 2022 for battery, criminal damage and dangerous driving. A further 13-month suspended term followed in August 2025 covering five separate weapons matters – possession of an offensive weapon, a bladed article, an imitation firearm, a prohibited weapon, and an offensive weapon in a private place.
Mitigation
Joseph Hocquard, representing Jordan Roberts, explained that the conviction had cost his client the HMP Parc role, though he has since taken up work with Dyfed Steels at Port Talbot docks. Remorse was genuine, counsel said, and his client offers no excuse whatsoever for his conduct.
Matt Murphy, for Corey Roberts, acknowledged on his client’s behalf that drug misuse was a problem requiring attention. He said Roberts knows his behaviour was wrong, that circumstances have moved on since the offending, and that he is now employed as a mechanic by a national firm and concentrating on supporting his partner and children.
Sentencing
Judge Paul Thomas KC described what Jordan Roberts had done as a “cowardly, bullying attack” on his partner, adding that biting was something toddlers did, not grown men.
Allowing a 10% reduction for the guilty plea, the judge handed him 12 months in prison suspended for 18 months, alongside a rehabilitation course and 200 hours of unpaid work.
Turning to Corey Roberts, the judge said he had no doubt the threatening messages were sent with the intention of deterring the complainant from giving evidence against his brother. He noted the defendant had been subject to a suspended sentence when he offended and had picked up another for “concerning” weapons matters afterwards.
Little in the way of genuine remorse had been shown, the judge said, and any prospect of rehabilitation at this stage was “fanciful”.
With the same 10% credit applied, Corey Roberts was jailed for 14 months, with 20 weeks of the breached suspended sentence activated to run concurrently. He will spend 40% of that term behind bars before being released on licence.
