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He was jailed for life after he admitted killing his elderly mother with a chainsaw at their home in Ystrad Mynach. It was later revealed that he was a heroin dealer who tried to flood Aberystwyth with drugs. The American businessman was jailed for life with a minimum of 17 years for the murder of Cardiff student Nadine Aburas in a Cardiff hotel room. He went on the run after the murder before being tracked down to Tanzania. The pair were sentenced to life for murdering a Polish drug dealer and then dismembering and burning his body. Philip Hudson-Jones was jailed for 22 years for killing Mariusz Majewski at the former’s house in Felinfoel, Llanelli, last November. Adrian Iwanowski was given a 15-year term, but both will serve one year less due to the time they have already spent in custody. The 24-year-old groomed two schoolgirls using social media. He was jailed for 10 years. He admitted developing friendships with the youngsters over Facebook before engaging in sexual activity with them and asking one to share explicit photographs of herself. The former police chief who sexually abused teenage boys was jailed for 12 years. The expolice superintendent, who won £375,000 libel damages from media accusing him of involvement with paedophiles, used his position and “connections with authority” to molest his two victims while running a “naughty boy school” in Wrexham. The plumber set fire to a farmer’s new biomass heat- ing system in a bid to cover up the fact that he’d botched the job. Jones had promised farmer Richard Lewis Owen that he would get thousands of pounds in rebates from the government after installing the system at his Dolgellau farm. The 37-year-old who posted sexual photographs and videos of a woman on her Facebook page in a “revenge porn” attack has been jailed for 16 weeks. The “controlling sexual predator” who promised to turn a young girl into a singing star instead subjected her to a horrific rape ordeal and was jailed for 10 years.
The court heard how Roscoe had groomed his victim, promising her fame and fortune, and lured her to a recording studio. The 25-year-old was jailed for life this week for the “brutal and sustained” murder of his former girlfriend.
He was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years at Mold Crown Court for the murder of 22-year-old mum Emma Baum. The 19-year-old of Rhyl was jailed for brutally beating and raping a woman in her 60s on a beach. The teen was high on drink and drugs when he attacked the woman. The 41-year-old was jailed for eight years for causing the death of a “dedicated” dad.
Rees admitted to drinkdriving under the influence of alcohol and causing death by dangerous driving when he crashed his BMW into a car driving by victim Terry Hill. The 37-year-old was jailed for stabbing a friend who poked fun at his bald head. The 33-year-old stabbed the man in the leg with a kitchen knife while drunk on vodka. The drugs gang were sentenced after being caught when police discovered a dealer’s list at a crash scene. A police operation was launched, and hired and stolen vehicles were seen bringing cocaine and heroin to the Mold and Wrexham areas from Liverpool. The brothers were found guilty of shooting a man in a layby and jailed for life.
Mr Justice Wyn Williams ordered that defendants Edward and Stephen Bennett should serve a minimum of 30 years behind bars for the killing of drug dealer Mark Jones. The 43-year-old was jailed for life for stabbing a man five times in an unprovoked attack on a busy high street.
The victim is still in hospital recovering from his injuries more than two months after the attack in Caerphilly. The driver, from Pontypridd, who tested positive for cocaine, was jailed after leading police on a chase which reached speeds of 78mph but ended when his car got jammed in a footpath tunnel in Caerphilly. The trio were jailed for a total of 21 years for their parts in a knife and chain attack on a busy Swansea road. Saeed, Sulayman and Ahmed set upon their victim as a crowd of up to 30 people looked on. The acting head of a specialist educational unit was jailed this week girl.
The court heard Toogood had targeted a “vulnerable” pupil at the unit where he is understood to have worked for 10 years. for grooming a The rapist, who was in Britain on a six-month visitor’s visa from the Middle East, was jailed for five and a half years for attacking a woman who had just left a Cardiff nightclub. The stalker broke into a woman’s home in Powys with the aim of kidnapping her and keeping her as his “sex slave”. He was jailed for 10 years at Cardiff Crown Court. The burglar, who admitted sexually assaulting a young woman and stealing her bra and thong when he broke into her home, was jailed for 16 months. The prolific burglars were each jailed for three years for a series of raids in the Wrexham area.
One family’s engagement and weddings rings were taken together with inherited jewellery which could not be replaced, Mold Crown Court heard. The drug-dealing brothers,