Undercover police were on duty in Haverfordwest when their attention was drawn to a silver Seat in St Issell's Avenue parked on double yellow lines. Those jailed in the final month of the year included a murderer, gang member, and a rapist. She was pinned under the vehicle and medics warned her life was in danger following the crash, which was caught on camera in horrific footage which her family have agreed to release. Drug dealer Evans unknowingly told a police officer to "hide whatever you’s got in your pants" when he was caught in the act. The three were jailed for life for the "brazen, vicious and brutal" murder of a young father-to-be. They were jailed for their parts in a drugs gang that abducted a boy living in care in London. The contraband was found after eagle-eyed staff spotted the handover taking place during a visit. Officers had received reports Leon Peter Owens had armed himself with a knife at his grandmother’s home where he lived and went to the address in Cilfrew, Neath, on May 5. He hunted for a knife after launching a frenzied attack of punches and kicks on the pair at a house in Cardiff. Daniel Duggan, 22, ploughed into the taxi at more than 70mph and left a number of people with serious injuries. None of the stolen jewellery – some of which the jeweller had handmade for his wife – has ever been recovered. She had been gagged and repeatedly slashed and stabbed to the face, neck, and chest by her partner Jason Shaun Farrell. The patient smashed up a hospital's vital heart machine leaving it irreparably damaged. Emery, 37, groomed the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, over the social media site after sending her a friend request and initiated sexually inappropriate conversations. Skiffington, 35, phoned 101 in a drink-fuelled rage and threatened to “take out” the detective sergeant’s family – leaving his victim fearful for the life of his wife and children. Alexander was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment and she was made subject to the Proceeds of Crime Act. The drug lord was behind one of Cardiff's biggest ever operations and had almost £4m of cannabis pass through his home in six months. The controlling and abusive man tried to kill his partner by stabbing her repeatedly with a screwdriver during a “shocking” attack that left her with life-threatening injuries. Clift also wrote on Facebook that prison was for "murderers, rapists and paedophiles not hard-working drug dealers". Little did he know it was a police officer who answered his customer’s phone which rang as his vehicle was being searched. The cellmates were jailed after being caught with a stash of drugs worth thousands of pounds which they intended to sell to other inmates. Pupils return to school after three months. A boy aged 17 and a girl aged just 15 were found when police swooped on a house looking for a drug dealer. Free Online Library: Locked Up: The man who boasted about his crimes on Facebook, the dangerous driver who killed his stepson in a crash and the bus driver who took a 14-year-girl away for the weekend; These are some of the criminals sent to prison in Wales this week. She urged the dealers to be quiet when coming and going to her address so as not to alert her “nosy neighbours” to what was going on. She was caught attempting to smuggle synthetic cannabis, commonly known as spice, along with tobacco and other items into HMP Parc on October 3, 2018. The three London drug dealers were caught offering 'happy hour' drug deals in Pontypridd and have been jailed for more than 15 years. The disqualified driver got behind the wheel of a car with no MOT after drinking and failed to do a breath test at the police station. Swansea Crown Court heard it was the second time Evans had set a fire in his cell while inside the city's jail. A builder has been left with permanent scarring on his face after he had a glass smashed over his head during a completely unprovoked attack. Giles was jailed for six years after his home was found filled with chemicals and components that could be used to make explosives. A judge said it was clear their owner, Christopher Rees, was involved in dealing to a significant degree. An experienced nurse was left feeling frightened and intimidated when McCann pulled a knife out of his pocket after disagreeing with her assessment findings. Stephen Haggard, Marcus Walsh, Rhydian Tolcher-James, Aishan Hazelwood and Adam Beer were sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court. Othman, 34, and Kshloth, 30, were involved in the plot to extract money and jewellery from Mohammed Taymouri, 40, and his wife Rozhin, which culminated in the former being kidnapped in his own car and attacked until his ankle snapped. He grabbed 77-year-old Lewis Jones by the "scruff of the neck" and by his hair before shouting demands for money. Mum-of-two Jane Evans wanted to “make a good impression” in her new role, a court heard, but drank two cans of Stella Artois before driving at 80mph in a 30mph zone. A photograph shows Wilcockson taking potshots with an air rifle from the window of a flat in Swansea's High Street. The court heard arrangements can be made for her new baby to join her behind bars but for that to happen Robinson will have to make a successful application to the prison governor. Collins then took the stolen Toyota SUV to a garage to try to get to fixed but staff there believed he was under the influence of drugs. Christopher Lloyd, 31, was stopped by police in the Cefn Glas area of Bridgend on the evening of January 23 because he was acting suspiciously. Josh Knapman. His victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had no memory of the assault and woke up with injuries. But when he reached the search area he was approached by a security officer who asked Ings to accompany him to a private search room. Those locked up during December included a pair who carried out a daylight attack in Cardiff with a machete and a sawn-off shotgun, a man who beat, strangled, and threatened his partner with a machete, and a carer who used his knowledge of where elderly vulnerable women lived to carry out a series of night-time creeper burglaries. The court heard Morris was on the phone to her then partner Sarah Swindles for almost 50 minutes while toddler Rosie was in the bath. A man was repeatedly slashed with a craft knife to his face, neck, body and legs during a "frenzied" attack. The hit-and-run driver left a 10-year-old boy in a coma then told police he'd "done nothing wrong except for hitting a kid on a bike". It has been a busy year for the courts in Wales. The victim's family had become suspicious of Lewis' regular visits and installed CCTV in their elderly mother's home. He was jailed for abusing his former girlfriend during their relationship. After a short chase the 19-year-old was caught and a police sniffer dog found more than £1,100 worth of the Class A drug in his car as well as £825 in cash. A police officer thought his arm was being “ripped off” after his hand got caught in a stinger while trying to stop a dangerous driver on the M4. Officers traced drugs back to a house where Jenkins was found alongside high-purity cocaine with a street value of nearly £30,000 and heroin and crack cocaine, some of which was organised into street deals. The heartless handymen scammed an elderly couple out of more than £16,000 for gardening and maintenance work worth just £1,200. The sentencing of three Londoners was an example of county lines drug dealing , where organised criminal gangs from big cities extend their operations into smaller cities and towns. Professional barber Pendree was caught by the police with almost half a kilo of cannabis and more than £9,000 in cash at his home in Newport. A pedestrian suffered "catastrophic injuries" when he was hit by a speeding driver as he crossed a road. The 32-year-old broke into a woman’s home and took the keys to her car after he was he was left stranded following the visit to see his partner. Jailed for stirring up racial and religious hatred after posting photographs of himself with a shotgun alongside “extremely offensive” comments online. Police discovered Mahad and Amin Elmi were controlling a 17-year-old boy to help with their county lines drug supply across the city. part of a campaign of control over his partner. The fairground worker who sent hoax white powder – in some cases in envelopes marked "anthrax" – to female politicians was jailed for five years. From up and down the country, here are just a few of the criminals locked up last month. The young drug dealer unwittingly led police to a hidden stash of cocaine in his bedroom – all thanks to some dodgy parking. The conman took a day trip to Wales from his home in Birmingham and made more than £800 with his “sleight of hand” skills which were likened to those of a magician. Rees attempted to swallow the wraps of heroin and cocaine he was carrying when he was intercepted by officers and was Tasered before he could do so. Bevan went out at night with the tools of his trade and broke into barns, sheds, garages, and farmyards across Carmarthenshire. He wasn’t picked up until an eagle-eyed PCSO spotted him near the Taff embankment in Cardiff – and a court was told he’d been at his home in Splott the whole time. The dopey drug dealer who was warned he wasn't the gangster type was caught red-handed by police as he tried to flush his stash down the toilet. The mum was sentenced to three years in prison after her baby daughter drowned when she was left unattended in the bath. Sentencing Ashmore at Cardiff Crown Court Judge David Wynn Morgan said: "You must understand that men who attack women are cowards.". The violent offender dragged a widow along the road and left an 81-year-old woman covered in cuts and bruises in two “vicious” robberies in Cardiff. The convicted criminal was locked up after he threatened to execute members of a police officer’s family after accusing him of withholding evidence. The drug dealer's mobile phone kept buzzing with text messages from customers after he had been picked up police. The defendant was also found with images he had taken in Cardiff and Bristol of teenage boys urinating in public toilets, including the Cardiff City Stadium. Gibson refused to get out of a police van and had to be carried to a cell he then flooded with water before urinating on the floor of another. Hanbry, 30 and Morris, 52, were jailed at Cardiff Crown Court after pleading guilty to burglary with intent to steal. The sexual abuser threatened to kill his victim when the offences came to light. officer in the face as he tried to escape. Bushbye told Christopher Maher he was going to get “boys” to “f*** him up” and alluded to news of the witness’ dealings with the police being known back in his home town of Liverpool. He was jailed for eight years and four months after a woman died when he drove his car into tents at a Welsh campsite. The 19-year-old steward sent hundreds of explicit sexual messages and intimate photographs to what he thought was a young girl. Jurors had heard Rosie was 13 months old and in the bath with her twin when she was left alone for “prolonged periods” and she drowned at Morris’ then home in Greenfield, Flintshire. Carson and O’Neil were both thrown out of the pub and heard to say: “There are those bouncers. Pollard was jailed for 27 months and a restraining order was made against him contacting the victim for 10 years. As well as stealing £10,000 in cash the fraudsters got away with a pocket watch given to the victim by his dying father that he intended in turn to pass on to a relative. Peter Colwell died when a shotgun was fired as he sat in a vehicle parked at the Ship Inn in Llanbedrog near Pwllheli. His victim was was beaten, strangled, spat on, and threatened with a machete knife by her crazed now ex-partner. Officers subsequently recovered almost £8,000 in cash belonging to the 19-year-old, as well as drugs with a street value of more than £3,000 from his bedroom in his parents' house. A court heard his young victim has been left feeling like she “does not want to live anymore” after her ordeal. The cruel father deliberately burnt his daughter’s arms by pressing a scalding iron to her skin when she tried to stop him hurting her mother. The aggressive fare dodger who assaulted two Transport for Wales staff was jailed in November. When police swooped on Gregory John they found he had 13 spice deals in his possession along with two lock knives. The three fraudsters checked themselves into a luxury hotel and ran up a £1,000 bill on fake cards during a two-day scam spree. "attracted to young children" sent sexual messages. Huggins, 18, and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked Jordan Williams, Nathan Deacon and Anthony Porch in Barry after the two groups had a disagreement over a stolen car. A bike courier was left with a split lip and smashed glasses after being attacked by men in Cardiff city centre on a Saturday night. The two drug dealers were caught in a car in Cardiff city centre with cocaine, MDMA and cannabis worth around £2,000. Now the 54-year-old has been jailed for four years for possessing heroin with intent to supply. The already convicted conman received a longer jail sentence for sending threatening letters to a barrister, police officer, and an American investor he had swindled for nearly a million pounds. Ball was sent to prison for carrying a 10-inch hunting knife in Newport . He was jailed for killing his victim with a 2ft-long ninja sword before burning his body and burying it in a shallow grave in a Cardiff woodland. The 30-year-old was jailed after drunkenly swearing at staff members at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport. Detective constable Mark Hopkins derailed a criminal investigation more than a decade ago after persuading a teenage assault victim to withdraw a witness statement. The mum-of-two knocked a social worker unconscious and left her with a head injury after becoming “frustrated” during a meeting. tried to rob a Co-op and a Chinese takeaway. The violent prisoner poured urine over a guard’s head in an "unimaginably disgusting" incident which saw fluid enter his victim's eye and mouth. The motorcyclist drove at more than 100mph during a police chase after failing to stop because he had no insurance. Iannucci had supplied a child in the Vale of Glamorgan area with 16 ecstasy tablets. Richard Hayes, 40, sent 16 letters containing the powder to the offices and home addresses of MPs, MEPs and local councillors over a three-year period, including the office of Welsh AM Kirsty Williams. He was part of a gang of burglars who claimed to be from social services in order to get access to the home of a disabled man. Griffiths’ drug dealing operation was described as “cynical” and “predatory” as he was locked up. While for many of us December was all about turkey and tinsel the last month of 2020 was once again a busy one for the courts in Wales. Perry was jailed after he broke another person’s jaw in an unprovoked attack outside a busy town centre bar. Former Wales back-rower Jamie Ringer explains how he rugby tackled a man with a gun. Eagle-eyed police officers spotted the car carrying Bajjada being driven suspiciously and followed it onto the M4. when he was stopped in Coquelles, France. The mechanic who crashed his Audi after drinking maintained an “elaborate lie” for three months in a bid to avoid the consequences of his actions. The drug gang boss who ran a county line pumping drugs into Wales from London was jailed for 11 years. Jenkins was jailed after a stop and search led officers to find nearly £30,000 worth of drugs. Ian Fairlamb was taken to hospital by the police after Bevan smashed a Jack Daniel’s bottle over his head and stamped on him while he was on the floor. 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