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Locked Up: The killer, prison guard and thieving ex-doctor who were sent to jail in April

Here are the faces of some of the criminals jailed in Wales in April.

It includes the killer who stabbed his next-door neighbour to death before going on the run and the window cleaner who was caught on camera stealing from an elderly customer.

There was also a paedophile who abused young girls over 15 years, drug dealers, benefit cheats and a prison guard who had sex with a prisoner in his cell.

Here are their faces and their crimes.

Steve Baxter

Baxter has been given a life sentence for the murder of Simon Clark (Dyfed-Powys Police)

The killer who stabbed his next-door neighbour through the heart before spending a month on the run was sentenced to life imprisonment .

The 52-year-old was convicted of murdering grandad Simon Clark at Grove Caravan Park in Pendine , Carmarthenshire, on September 27 last year.

Baxter's trial at Swansea Crown Court heard how he stabbed his 54-year-old neighbour in the chest with a deep, fatal wound that penetrated his heart.

Emily Watson and John McGee

Emily Watson (North Wales Police)
John McGee (Liverpool Echo)

An i nfatuated prison guard gave a convict oral sex in his cell on Christmas Day at Wrexham's Berwyn prison.

Watson's lover was prisoner John McGee, who was serving eight years for death by dangerous driving.

The 26-year-old prison guard was described in court as a "thrill seeker".

She went alone into McGee's cell several times, giving him oral sex twice and having full intercourse with him on one occasion.

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Matthew Lewis

Matthew Lewis was caught on camera (South Wales Police)

The window cleaner was caught on camera stealing money from an 86-year-old dementia patient's handbag.

The victim's family had become suspicious of Lewis' regular visits and installed CCTV in their elderly mother's home.

The sickening moment thieving window cleaner rifles through 86-year-old dementia patient's handbag

Lee Taylor

Lee Taylor was given an extended sentence (South Wales Police)

The footballer who mowed down 11 young rival supporters lost his rag after they mocked him when he tried to set rules for a fight “between two children” after an ill-tempered game. 

Dad-of-one Taylor, 36, slammed into his victims – aged between 14 and 19 – before trying to chase another two boys onto the pitch. 

Taylor was given an extended 10-year sentence and ordered to serve a minimum of seven years in prison as a judge told him it was “just good fortune” none of the victims were seriously injured or killed.  

Peter Anthony Lewis  

Peter Anthony Lewis (South Wales Evening Post)

The paedophile abused young girls over a period of more than 15 years.

The 54-year-old subjected the youngsters to a catalogue of horrific attacks, including repeated rapes and sexual assaults.

He had previously been convicted at trial of 15 counts of rape of a child under 13, assault by penetration, sexual assault, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, and making indecent images of children.

Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill (South Wales Police)

He led police on a car chase and almost caused a head-on collision by speeding the wrong way around a roundabout.

The 30-year-old then jumped out of the driver’s seat while the vehicle was still moving and tried to run away from the officer by sprinting off into a field.

Courtney Brown St-Pier

Courtney Nathaniel Raymond Brown St-Pier (South Wales Police)

This drugs dealer was found with almost 60 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine concealed up his bum.

During his sentencing, the court heard officers received intelligence that the dealer was at an address in Neath town centre which was occupied by a man with learning difficulties, and they swung into action.

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Eric Burrows

Burrows celebrating his £166,000 Postcode Lottery win (Postcode Lottery)

The benefit cheat won £166,000 on the Postcode Lottery but continued to claim benefits after failing to notify the authorities about his good fortune.

The 62-year-old spent the money on holidays to Disney World in Florida , a £22,000 car, a motorhome of the same value, and gifts for his partner and sister.

David Heenan

Police found more than 40 grams of the powerful hallucinogenic and anaesthetic drug ketamine in David Michael Heenan's wardrobe (South Wales Police)

The drug dealer ran a cocaine and ketamine dealing operation from his car.

He was caught after police became suspicious of his behaviour in a car park behind a parade of shops.

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.

Angharad Roberts

The former doctor whose life spiralled out of control after she got hooked on drink and drugs stole perfume from John Lewis to try and pay off a drugs debt.

Roberts had worked in a hospital after completing a medical degree but the 38-year-old started abusing alcohol after a relationship broke down.

Judge Neil Bidder QC, who previously spared her an immediate prison sentence, told her: "Your time has, I am afraid, run out."

Alan Knight

He groomed a child he met online by buying her a teddy bear, jewellery, and chocolates before taking her to a hotel for sex.

Knight befriended the girl on Snapchat and started taking her on Sunday afternoon drives before checking them into a Travelodge while she told her parents she was with a friend.

Abdi Sharif, Hamsa Harun, and Abdi Osman

(Left to right) Abdi Sharif, Hamsa Harun, and Abdi Osman (South Wales Police)

The sentencing of three Londoners at  Swansea Crown Court  is the latest example of what is known as county lines drug dealing , where organised criminal gangs from big cities extend their operations into smaller cities and towns.

They advertised themselves as a 'Deliveroo' service for heroin and cocaine.

Richard Marsh

Richard Marsh (South Wales Police)

He sexually assaulted a woman as she slept and repeatedly sexually abused a child by kissing her and touching her breasts.

The 38-year-old denied all the charges against him but was found guilty by a jury following a trial at  Cardiff Crown Court of seven sexual offences involving two victims.

Callum Regan

Callum Regan was sentenced to 32 months detention for drug-driving and possession of cocaine with intent to supply after being spotted by an eagle-eyed traffic officer (South Wales Evening Post)

The court heard at his sentencing that the teenager was running a profitable cocaine dealing business from his BMW.

He was busted when a passing police officer became suspicious of the way his car was parked on the side of the road.

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.

Jason Cunliffe, David Alford, Kyle Lewis, and Darren Palmer

(Left to right) Jason Cunliffe, David Alford, Kyle Lewis, and Darren Palmer (Facebook/Swansea council)

They are the bragging bosses of a cold-calling company which ripped off more than 1,000 people and lived a “Champagne lifestyle” of partying and fast cars.

The self-styled ‘Wolves of Wind Street’ targeted elderly people and ripped them off for hundreds of pounds each in an “audacious fraud”.

They were jailed this week for their crimes.

Nathan Anderson

A judge described Nathan Anderson's actions as a display of 'utter callousness and cowardice' (Dyfed-Powys Police)

The 23-year-old disqualified driver fled the scene of an horrific crash and left his seriously ill friend for dead.

Anderson - who was on bail for drug driving - did not bother to check on his gravely ill mate in the wreckage or even call 999 before fleeing the scene.

This was the state of the car after the crash.

Nathan Anderson ran from the crashed car, leaving his passenger gravely injured (Made available by Crown Prosecution Service)

Paul Clement

Paul Clement told police in his interview he 'thought his luck was in' (South Wales Police)

The NHS worker took a £90 taxi from a night out in Cardiff to  Swansea   where he raped an underage girl.

Clement was told by Judge Peter Heywood that his actions on May 24, 2017 “clearly had a significant effect” on his victim, who had given evidence against the 39-year-old from the dock of  Swansea Crown Court .

Sheena Hawkins

Sheena Hawkins (South Wales Police)

The mum-of-five was caught trying to sneak drugs into prison in her bra when she went to visit her ex-partner.

Hawkins, 31, initially refused to be searched and gave a false name and date of birth to the police.

Sentencing her at Newport Crown Court , Judge Neil Bidder QC said people tempted to take drugs into prison “must be deterred”.

Noamane Debbagh

Noamane Debbagh (South Wales Police)

The aspiring nurse sold wraps which he assured customers contained Class A drugs but they were actually filled with other white and brown powders that looked similar.

The court heard police went to the defendant’s flat in Splott Road on August 28 last year to arrest him on suspicion of robbery.

While they were there they found wraps under the bed, on the floor, and the windowsill. Officers also found an open tub of baking soda.

Kelvin McCann

Kelvin McCann (South Wales Police)

An experienced nurse was left feeling frightened and intimidated when McCann pulled a knife out of his pocket after disagreeing with her assessment findings.

Psychiatric nurse Rachel Rushforth was alone in the assessment room with Kelvin McCann when he produced the six-inch silver-bladed knife and pointed it at her.

Anthony Vlahos

Anthony Vlahos (Gwent Police)

Vlahos was jailed for pushing an 85-year-old man to the floor and kicking him before stealing his bank cards and keys and driving off in his car.

His co-defendant Katherine Pitt was also locked up for her role in the terrifying attack on the pensioner in  Abergavenny  on February 14.

Jamie Ball

Jamie Ball (Gwent Police)

Ball was sent to prison for carrying a ten-inch hunting knife in Newport .

Ball told officers he bought the knife the previous day because he was “paranoid” and wanted to carry it for his own protection.

Judge Bidder said it “really does cause concern” that he was in possession of a large knife while taking such medication.

James Langdon

James Langdon (South Wales Police)

The groom left one of his guests permanently scarred after biting off part of his ear when a fight broke out at his wedding reception.

Newlywed Langdon did nothing to help as his injured and traumatised victim searched desperately for his severed ear on the floor of the  Vale of Glamorgan  wedding venue.

Cardiff Crown Court  heard that as the scuffle broke out the groom shouted: “It’s my f***ing wedding.”

Shaun and Logan Gregg

Shaun Gregg (left) and brother Logan Gregg (right) (South Wales Police)

Shaun held a woman down while Logan raped her and then did the same thing again when his father tried to rape her on another occasion.

Cardiff Crown Court was told how the first offence happened after Logan Gregg discussed with his older brother his “lack of sexual contact”.

The pair and their father were all jailed and must register as sex offenders.

Malcolm Vickery

Malcolm Vickery (Gwent Police)

The pensioner found guilty of sexually abusing two children in the 1970s and 80s has been described by one of his victims as a “monster”.

Vickery denied all the charges against him but was found guilty by a jury following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court of 16 counts of historic child sexual abuse.

Judge Rhys Rowlands said: “For one man to have caused so much harm and suffering over the years is truly appalling.”

Siobhan Webb

Siobhan Webb's offences were described as 'despicable' (South Wales Police)

The drug addict scammed thousands out of vulnerable victims by posing as a desperate mum-to-be in need of help.

Webb cheated nearly £2,000 out of three vulnerable people she approached in the street asking to borrow money.

The 30-year-old falsely claimed to be a destitute pregnant woman in need of cash to pay for medical appointments, transport, and food for her children.

Keith Morgan

Keith Morgan (South Wales Police)

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.

Morgan was a disqualified company director but  posed as a rich and successful businessman  able to gain people hundreds of millions of pounds in credit.

After his fraud was exposed he sparked a major armed police incident by  threatening to harm himself with a large hunting knife  in the foyer of a prominent building in  Cardiff Bay  and was later jailed.

Seth Davies

Seth Davies (South Wales Police)

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 .

Davies, who had a previous conviction for headbutting a fellow inmate in his cell, leaned over railings on the floor above the officer at HMP Cardiff and tipped the urine over him.

Shocking video captures prisoner pouring urine over prison officer

Robert Shaw-Williams

Described as a “parasite” boyfriend, he banned his fiancee from going to martial arts classes after accusing her of getting into “sexual positions” with instructors.

The 41-year-old banned Sarita Birdsall from jiu-jitsu classes because he thought men were simulating sex with her.

Patrick Grant

Paedophile care home boss Patrick Grant has been jailed for eight years (UK Law News)

The paedophile who ran a  Cardiff  children’s home repeatedly crept into a teenage boy’s bedroom and abused him before threatening to “make him disappear”.

Grant’s terrified victim often fled the Walker House Children’s Home in  Llanishen  in the late 1980s and told police who found him that he was being molested – but they “did nothing”.

Sylvia Richards and Paul Baker

The pair stole £16,500 of life savings from a severely disabled man who thought they were his friends.

Andrew Rose, who was left unable to walk or talk following a stroke 30 years ago, said he felt completely betrayed by his supposed friends Richards and Baker.

Neil Skiffington

Neil Skiffington (Gwent Police)

The convicted criminal was locked up after he threatened to execute members of a police officer’s family after accusing him of withholding evidence.

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.

Damon Owens

Damon Owens - also known as builder Andrew Hansel, and Lee King the plumber - outside Cardiff Crown Court (Wales News Service)

The rogue builder was jailed after he lied to a crown court judge by claiming he was shot in the head while serving as a Royal Marine in Bosnia.

Damon Owens’ case was adjourned in February after he told Judge Philip Harris-Jenkins about the injury – which he actually suffered when he was attacked with a golf club in Barry .

Dean Jenkins

Dean Jenkins (South Wales Police)

Jenkins was jailed after a stop and search led officers to find nearly £30,000 worth of drugs .

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.

Muaz Tarafdar

Muaz Tarafdar (South Wales Police)

The drug dealer stamped on a police officer’s head then tried to hide in a kebab shop when he was caught with heroin and cocaine.

Tarafdar also punched Detective Constable Dominic Belotti in the face, leaving him with painful injuries including a wound on top of his head and a cut inside his lip.

Drug dealer stamped on police officer's head a year after he was chased through Cardiff carrying huge knife  

Jon Stephenson

Jon Stephenson (South Wales Police)

 

The pervert exposed himself to women on a cycle path in Cardiff  then told police he would punch any witnesses who gave evidence against him.

Stephenson spent hours on the Taff Trail on a sunny Saturday waiting for suitable victims to come along before intentionally exposing himself, intending to cause alarm or distress.

Gareth Stone

Gareth Stone (Gwent Police)

The gambling addict broke into a fish and chip shop where his wife worked and pocketed £6,500 from the safe then booked a holiday to America.

Gareth Stone checked the layout of the premises while picking up his pregnant wife from her shift then later slipped the necessary keys off her keyring and raided the office.

Jon Page, owner of the family-run fish bar, said the burglary had left him feeling “angry and upset”.

Leon Harris

Leon Harris (South Wales Police)

Jailed after he scaled a 50ft communications tower outside a police station and threw a dish off the top towards officers below causing £13,500 of damage.

Harris climbed to the top of the mast in Fairwater, Cardiff, in the early hours of the morning and started swaying the structure from side to side threatening to make it collapse.

Rezwan Gafur

Rezwan Gafur, 20, was jailed after being caught with £86,000 worth of amphetamine following a police chase in Newport (South Wales Police)

The drug courier was caught with up to £86,000 worth of amphetamine in his car after he was involved in a police in a chase through  Newport  .

The 20-year-old was returning from a drug run in Liverpool when the Mercedes he was driving was spotted by police who asked him to pull over.

The defendant stopped the vehicle but when the officers left their car Gafur drove off and was pursued by the police as he overtook and undercut traffic while travelling 55mph in 30mph zones.

Michael Bajjada

Michael Bajjada, 26, was jailed (Gwent Police)

The drug dealer was chauffeured around by his girlfriend as he prepared crack cocaine for customers .

Eagle-eyed police officers spotted the car carrying Bajjada being driven suspiciously and followed it onto the  M4  .

David Williams

David Henry Williams, 82, was jailed for seven years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a young child (South Wales Police)

The pensioner was jailed for sexually abusing a young child after his victim described the abuse to his mother in graphic detail.

The 82-year-old was found guilty by a jury of sexually assaulting his victim, despite denying the abuse had taken place.

Swansea man, 82, carried out sex attack on boy under 13  

Jordan Williams

Jordan Williams, 23, was jailed after being found with a stun gun at Cardiff Airport (South Wales Police)

The young father was caught with a  stun gun at Cardiff Airport  while travelling back from a family holiday.

The 23-year-old was caught with the weapon on arriving back in Wales from Bulgaria with his partner and child on May 27 last year.

The stun gun, which was disguised as a torch and capable of discharging 7,900 volts, was found in a suitcase along with two knuckle dusters and an extendable police baton.

Ceiron Jones and Benjamin Dower

Ceiron Jones (South Wales Police)

Drug dealer Jones was caught with cannabis, cocaine, £40,000 worth of heroin and a Samurai sword in his car .

Jones was under investigation by police at the time the discovery was made with officers having arrested the 29-year-old for drug dealing more than 12 months earlier.

Benjamin Dower (South Wales Police)

Dower was caught running away from Jones' house when police went to raid it.

He dropped a carrier bag during the pursuit and in it officers found more than 171g of cannabis in various containers.

Owen Pendree

 

Owen Pendree (Facebook)

 

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.

He had previously been locked up for drug dealing and said he fell back into a criminal lifestyle when he could not afford to pay his rent and bills.

Gwent Police searched his home and seized nearly half a kilo of cannabis, along with drugs paraphernalia including digital scales.

Officers also seized £9,552 in cash plus foreign notes and coins.

Barber caught with almost half a kilo of cannabis and £9,000 in cash at his home  

 
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