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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.
Iain James Clarke The police officer was jailed for five years after raping a woman while his own wife slept in an adjoining room.
Clarke, 48, was sentenced at Mold Crown Court. He was sacked after a conduct hearing by North Wales Police.
Lauren Jeska The former champion fell-runner, from Machynlleth, was jailed for 18 years after admitting attempted murder following a row about her test samples.
Lauren Jeska was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for the attempted murder of UK Athletics official Ralph Knibbs.
Simon Pinch and Lucas Williams The pair were jailed for their roles in a “sophisticated” cannabis factory in Penarth where they cultivated dozens of plants.
Simon Pinch and Lucas Williams denied producing the Class B drug but were found guilty by a jury following a trial at Newport Crown Court.
Christopher McCue McCue was jailed for throwing bricks through a windscreen in a “revenge attack” which caused thousands of pounds of damage – to the wrong car.
The 45-year-old admitted causing criminal damage as well as burgling a woman’s home and stealing her car in an attempt to pay off substantial gambling debts.
Nicholas Anthony Stubley The convicted sex offender was jailed for four years after being caught sending sex messages to a child in an undercover police sting.
The 51-year-old was arrested after the 12-year-old girl he was chatting to online and hoped to meet turned out to be an undercover police officer.
Richard Riordan A family was left unable to pay for their loved one’s funeral because the thieving carer had drained his bank account.
Relatives of 66-year-old Brian Murray were devastated when they could not afford funeral expenses after his death last July following the £6,000 theft by Riordan.
Anthony Lowe The former estate agent was jailed for stabbing a man in the heart after a gang armed with clubs and bats attacked his car.
Lowe, 35, was sent to prison for eight years after he was cleared by a jury of attempted murder, but convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent.
Florin Moise The father-of-three was jailed for his part in a gang who stole £10,000 of iPhones in a “smash-andgrab’”raid on Cardiff’s Apple store.
Andrew Check The porn addict climbed through a woman’s window and subjected her to a terrifying knifepoint sex attack. He was caught after a distinctive shoe print was left at the scene in Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
Helen Price The 49-year-old tried to kill a stranger by hitting her on the head with a hammer as she tried on shoes.
Price received a 12-year extended sentence after admitting attempted murder, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and two counts of possessing an offensive weapon.
Drugs gang Members of a drugs gang who plotted to flood South Wales with £1m of class A drugs were jailed for a total of more than 50 years.
Cardiff Crown Court was told police uncovered a “professional, well-organised drug supply gang operating in South Wales and that when vehicles were followed, the source led them to the north-west of England.
Said Yusuf and Hussein Mursal The two Cardiff drug dealers, who crashed their van and got stuck as they tried to get away from police, were jailed for a total of nine years.
The 26-year-olds were spotted by plain-clothed officers who saw them dealing drugs from their silver Berlingo mini van in the Roath area of the city.
Richard Taylor A mother was left terrified after Taylor approached her with a knife threatening to kill her while she fastened her daughter into the car.
Cardiff Crown Court heard Olga Fernandez was securing her four- year-old child in the back seat when she saw Taylor walking up to her holding a four-inch kitchen knife.
Geraint Jones The ex-soldier who dressed as Colonel Gaddafi for a bad taste party was jailed – for biting off a pub-goer’s ear.
Afghanistan veteran Jones, 25, was wearing a black curly wig and bright orange robes when he carried out the “savage” attack at Aberystwyth.
Julie Gillard The 55-year-old was jailed for dishonestly claiming more than £40,000 in benefits.
Gillard was overpaid income support, council tax support and housing benefits over a period of more than four years totalling £42,006.79.
Karthik Kakkerla The phone scammer convinced a “wholly innocent” victim to part with nearly £50,000 of savings by posing as a fraud investigator from his bank.
It took police more than two years to trace Karthik Kakkerla, who finally pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud and was jailed at Cardiff Crown Court.
Drugs gang The gang of drug dealers who “traded in misery” were put behind bars after the biggest drugs operation in Gwent Police’s history.
Around 300 officers took part in a series of coordinated raids across Newport at 2am on February 7 as part of Operation Jewels, which targeted those supplying class A drugs.
Craig Knapp The thief stole a nurse’s purse, keys and handbag from a treatment room before driving off in her car after she treated him for burns.
Knapp, 37, admitted stealing from Cheryl Lewis-Thomas at Blaen y Cwm Surgery in Ebbw Vale as well as driving without a valid licence or insurance.
Stephen Munro The travel company boss was jailed for stalking his ex-girlfriend just weeks after police handed him a restraining order.
The court heard he repeatedly confronted his former partner after their four-year relationship ended.
David Archer The serial shoplifter who has spent half of his life in jail over a staggering 400 offences was locked up again at the start of the month.
David Archer, who has been described as one of the most prolific shoplifters in Britain, was sent down again on his 62nd birthday.
Daniel Davies Davies, who knocked a cup of water towards a magistrate during a trial, was jailed for assault.
Swansea Magistrates’ Court heard the justice got “drops of water” on her head in the incident.
Leanne Collins, Gemma Gauci and Karen O’Brien The trio were jailed for a “despicable” conspiracy to fake an elderly man’s will in order to get a share of his £320,000 estate.
Karen O’Brien, Gemma Gauci and Leanne Collins each denied conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation but were found guilty at Cardiff Crown Court.