TO JUSTICE AND BARS THIS YEAR

DEAN MARCUS JONES

Newport Crown Court.

DEAN MARCUS JONES

The violent drug user was handed a 17-and-a-half-year sentence for killing his lawyer girlfriend at their Swansea home.

Swansea Crown Court heard Jones tried to flee the scene by climbing out of a window and down a fire escape into a rear yard but was caught by police.

JAMES TOBIN

The amateur boxer was jailed for 16 and a half years for killing his girlfriend and was caught when police

ANTHONY BAINES

secretly bugged his house.

The 21-year-old slapped his girlfriend Kellie Gillard, 25, in a “postsex argument” causing her to fall out of bed to bang her head on the wall.

STEPHEN HOUGH

The ex-soldier was jailed for the rape and manslaughter of a schoolgirl more than 40 years ago and was also sentenced to an additional three years imprisonment after pleading guilty to the sexual assault of a girl last year.

Hough was sentenced to 12 years after being convicted of the rape and manslaughter of schoolgirl Janet

RICHARD WALLIS

Commins in 1976.

KIERON ROBERTS

The thug who killed a dad-of-two with a single punch near a nightclub in Bangor was jailed for six years and nine months.

Kieron Roberts, 26, attacked Esinkumo Ayabowei in the early hours of April 1 this year.

RICHARD THOMAS

The drug user was found guilty of the “vicious” murder of a stroke victim by stamping on his head.

Thomas, 36, told police his friend Robert Young, 53, had hurt himself

KIERON ROBERTS

falling over.

But Mr Young’s blood and hair were found on the sole of Thomas’ training shoe.

JORDAN DAVIDSON

Davidson was jailed for at least 23 years for the murder of a vulnerable man at his Wrexham home.

The man who called himself ‘the Devil’ murdered retired restaurateur Nicholas Churton, describing it as the greatest day of his life.

The 26-year-old had earlier posed for a mobile phone picture with the machete murder weapon, which he called “his new toy”.