BEHIND BARS
THOMAS MULLEN The pensioner and grandfather sexually assaulted a vulnerable teenager he found on the street after telling her she “reminded him of his daughter”
He invited her back to his home in Llanedeyrn in Cardiff for a hot drink and when they got there he locked the door and carried out a “frightening” sexual assault, later claiming the woman wanted to have sex with him because she had inadvertently licked her lips. ROBERT PAUL This man hit his partner with a baseball bat so hard the weapon split before punching her in the face.
The assault, which followed an argument, was described as a “truly shocking” incident of domestic violence. JOHN PAUL LEWIS Lewis was jailed for life for brutally stabbing his partner to death in a vicious knife attack. Terrie-Ann Jones – known as “Tan” – suffered 26 separate stab and slash wounds at the hands of her abusive and controlling partner John Paul Lewis.
The 56-year-old had denied murder, claiming he was acting in selfdefence.
But he was convicted of murdering the 33-year-old mother-of-two following an eight-day trial at Swansea Crown Court. MARK CASTON The Newport man was found guilty of raping a teenage girl and sexually assaulting another.
The judge told the court the teenager was “strongly under the influence of alcohol” when Caston “made his move” on the first occasions – forcing her to perform oral sex. MEL JENKINS The paedophile took alcohol and baby oil with him intending to meet a chat room user he believed to be a 12-year-old at a hotel. The 47-yearold travelled from Leicester to Pontyclun to meet the “child” after grooming her online by telling her she could trust him and he would like to educate her about sex. ICEALYN MCLENNON She bit an off-duty police officer on the face and told her: “I can taste your blood – yum yum”. Witnesses described McLennon as behaving “like an animal” on the evening in question, gouging the policewoman’s eyes, pulling a clump of hair out, and sinking her teeth into her. DAVID BOSWELL The former town mayor was jailed for 18 years for raping and sexually assaulting two young girls. Boswell abused the girls – who were aged under nine – during the early 1990s. RICHARD WILLCOX The 33-year-old punched his sister’s ex-boyfriend in the face at a Bridgend pub leaving him in a critical condition in hospital.
Willcox became enraged when he heard his sister’s former partner talking about her in the smoking area of the Masons Arms pub in Bryncethin in June 24.
In what was described as a “cheap shot” the defendant punched Mr Steel to the side of the face, causing him to the fall to the floor and lose consciousness for 30 minutes. JAMIE JORDAN The 29-year-old “goaded” armed police during a five-hour standoff and wanted to die at the hands of the officers. The so-called “suicide by cop” bid happened after Jordan robbed a man at knifepoint and then waited for the police to arrive. WAYNE JONES The defendant was caught by police with a shopping bag stuffed full of £5,000 worth of cannabis in his Audi.
Jones, 44, from Tonyrefail, was found to have a Co-op bag packed with more than 13oz of the Class B drug in his car. BENJAMIN DEAN The burglar broke into a couple’s upmarket home in Cowbridge and stole their keys before making off in their car then breaking into a pub.
Dean burgled the Hare and Hounds pub in Aberthin on the same night and pocked £2,700 in cash, a hatchet and a bottle of vodka. MICHELLE WETHERALL A mum was caught trying to smuggle drugs to her inmate son in prison using a bag of crisps. Prison officers swooped on the crisps and found a wrap of drugs inside the bag. KIALL PAYNE The teenage drug dealer was caught red-handed when he sold heroin and crack cocaine to an undercover police officer. During a police interview the 18-year-old said he had been given £300 cash found in his bedroom by his mum for a family holiday. ALEKSANDER ANTONOV The Bulgarian worker who struggled to find employment in the UK ended up running a cannabis farm in Cardiff.
Between 15 and 20 days. before his arrest he was offered work looking after a cannabis factory at a house in Richmond Road.
At the property police found 570 plants, six fans and 16 lamps, which the prosecution called a “substantial setup”. MARCUS BANDEGANI The drug dealer was caught after selling two wraps of heroin to an undercover police officer, offering him a £5 discount as a multi-buy deal.
The street dealer was initially suspicious of his new customer, asking him: “How do I know you’re not a fed?” GETHIN FOWLER Fowler left a man “fearing for his life” after attacking him with a broken bottle.
His victim Brian Viall was visiting a friend who lived in the same building as the defendant who was shouting and behaving aggressively at the time.
Mr Viall was left with a deep wound to his forehead and cuts to his hands. DAMIEN LUCE The “reckless” driver sped on the wrong side of the road straight at a police car through a busy residential street where children often play.
He had a previous conviction for dangerous driving after he jumped out of a moving car while being pursued by the police and let it smash into a wall. LEILA HANFORD The new mum smuggled a mobile phone into HM Prison Cardiff when she went to visit her partner who was locked up for drug offences.
She had her 11-week-old baby with her when she went through the security searches.
The court heard the package, which was about three inches long and one inch thick, was wrapped in cling film. MICHAEL MORRIS The serial flasher exposed himself to a group of children in a busy park as families enjoyed the heatwave.
When he was subsequently arrested he asked officers if he could “have a pasty”.
A judge told married Michael Morris he was sending him to prison “so the parents and children of Barry can use the parks without seeing your gross offences”. LEE MORGAN The balaclava-clad would-be robber pointed a gun-shaped object at a shocked cashier in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, and ordered her to open the till.
But brave shop manager Tony Preece chased the robber before putting him in a headlock and detaining him until the police arrived. CHLOE PARRY The teenage girl slashed a woman in the face with a knife, leaving her permanently scarred.
The blade caught the woman on the eyelid, nose and cheek and came “perilously close” to going into her eye. BOBBY DOWLING The drink-driver pulled up to a McDonald’s drive-thru with an open can of lager in his van and hit the car in front.