Child carer banned after convictions show "lack of...
A RESIDENTIAL child care worker has been struck off after being convicted of drink-driving, domestic assault and criminal damage. The Care Council for Wales ruled that though the offences were not...
View ArticleLocked up: The thieves, gangs and other criminals sent to jail in...
These are the faces of the criminals who were sent to jail in September. They include a man who threatened to "slice" his own mother, another who was caught masturbating outside Primark and a father...
View ArticleOne knife-point rape takes place every 7 weeks in Wales,...
SOUTH Wales has said it does everything possible to support victims as new figures show sex attackers have carried out 30 knife-point rapes in Wales over the past four years — one every seven...
View ArticleWife who battered husband to death with vase is jailed for life
A WIFE who battered her husband to death with a vase was today jailed for a minimum of 17 years.Mother Maria Hopes, 46, and her son Leon Port, 24, attacked her husband Mark Hopes in a drunken...
View ArticleThese two brothers who went on a car arson spree in Landore are...
TWO brothers, one with a 'deep-seated, psychological reason' for damaging cars, went on a 'wanton' spree of damaging and setting fire to vehicles in streets around Landore in Swansea. Martin and Darren...
View ArticleMen alleged to have made threats to someone in Oystermouth Road...
POLICE in Swansea are appealing for information to locate two wanted men – Anthony Thyer, aged 32, and Travis Clayton Morgan, aged 29. READ MORE: Brothers who went on a car arson spree in Landore are...
View Article'Predatory paedophile' who attempted to groom 10-year-old is...
A convicted sex offender who befriended a Swansea family was caught attempting to groom a ten-year-old girl by her vigilant mother, who discovered notes he had written asking her daughter for 'hugs and...
View ArticleChed Evans raped drunk teenager and then left via hotel fire...
FOOTBALLER Ched Evans raped a drunken teenager after a soccer friend had taken her back to his hotel room after a night out - and she fears her drink was spiked, a court heard today.Former Wales...
View ArticleMan crashed car into electricity sub-station leaving thousands...
THOUSANDS of homes in Swansea were left without power after a man crashed his car into an electricity sub-station following a row with ex-partner. James Taylor had been for a night out in Swansea with...
View ArticleKnife man involved in stand-off with police is detained in...
A KNIFE man who was in a stand-off with armed police has been ordered to remain in hospital until further notice.Jonathan Grace had been staying with his uncle Martin Grace at his home in Jersey...
View ArticleMurder trial hears accused dug fire pit to dispose of body in...
TWO men have gone on trial accused of murdering their housemate and disposing of his body in a specially dug fire pit in the back garden. The remains of Polish national Mariusz Majewski were found at...
View ArticleA man drank 8 cans of lager, rowed with his wife, took her Audi...
A MAN who drank eight cans of lager and had a row with his wife then took her Audi TT and crashed it into a neighbour's car, a court has heard. Christopher Mark Langton was later found asleep on the...
View ArticleTaxi driver may have vital information to help sexual assault...
POLICE are appealing for help in tracing a taxi driver who is a potential witness in a sexual assault investigation. Detectives in Port Talbot say they are keen to speak to the cabbie who picked-up a...
View ArticleMurder trial hears body chopped up with an axe and saw before...
A BODY found in a Llanelli garden had been chopped up with an axe and saw before being incinerated, a jury has heard. When scenes of crime experts examined the rear of the house all they found were...
View ArticlePolice appeal after £1k of alcohol stolen from Swansea bar
POLICE investigating the theft of bottles of spirits from a Swansea bar have release a CCTV image of a man they want to talk to. Officers say alcohol worth more than £1,000 was taken from the Bambu...
View ArticleNo fines issued for smoking in cars with children in Wales
NO driver or passenger have been fined for smoking in a car with children present, a year after the law was introduced in Wales.It became illegal to smoke in a vehicle carrying someone under 18 in...
View ArticleMurder trial hears victim and accused were amphetamine dealers
THE Polish man whose dismembered and burnt remains were found in a Llanelli garden was an amphetamine dealer, a court has heard. Mariusz Majewski had lived at the house in the Felinfoel area of the...
View ArticlePembrokeshire Herald editor fined £500 after naming youth...
The editor of the Pembrokeshire Herald "should have known better" after breaching a reporting restriction not to name a teenager involved in a court case.District Judge Neil Evans said editor Thomas...
View ArticleChed Evans trial: Court hears woman cried 'hysterically' day...
THE woman alleged to have been raped by footballer Ched Evans cried 'hysterically' the day after, a jury were told.Cardiff Crown Court heard she arrived "crying hysterically" at a friend's house the...
View ArticleWoman knocked unconscious in Swansea bar 'for taking drink'
A TEENAGER has admitted hitting a woman in the face and knocking her out in a Swansea bar following a dispute over a drink. Liam Kevin Raymond Davey lashed out at the woman — somebody he went to school...
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