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Locked Up: The killers, sex predator, paedophiles, and other criminals sent to prison in the last month

Here are some of the criminals jailed in Wales over the past month.

They include three men jailed after the death of much-loved dad Anthony Winter in Cardiff, a young dad who shook his tiny baby so hard he had injuries likened to being "in a high-speed car crash", and a sexual predator who attacked lone women on the streets of Cardiff.

See their faces and their crimes here.

James Jones, John Phillips and Harvey Huchet

James Jones, John Phillips, and Harvey Huchet (South Wales Police)

They were jailed for their part in the "horrific and cruel" killing of young dad Anthony Winter.

The 32-year-old was knifed through an artery and left to die in a pool of blood in woodland near Cardiff – a location a judge had been "carefully chosen".

Matthew Jones

Matthew Jones denies murder and manslaughter (Twitter)

The father "lost control" of his temper and shook his 15-week-old baby son to death.

The 26-year-old left his son Cody Rhys Williams-Jones with a litany of injuries likened to a “high-speed car crash”. The infant suffered multiple bleeds to the eyes – of which there were too many to count – and "catastrophic head injuries".

Joshua Jolly

Joshua Jolly, was married for nearly two years and had a 4-year-old son, when he was jailed for violent sex attacks (South Wales Police)

The sex predator and married soldier was jailed for sexually assaulting three women in “terrifying” attacks as they walked alone on dark streets in Cardiff in the early hours of the morning. 

The serviceman, who served in Afghanistan, targeted the lone victims and used violence to assault them, leaving each woman suffering from profound psychological effects.

Owain Thomas

Owain Thomas was sentenced to 15 years in prison at Merthyr Crown Court on Friday (5 July) after pleading guilty to 158 online sex offences against children. (South Wales Police)

More than 140 children were abused by the twisted young lawyer who bribed, cajoled, and bullied children as young as nine years old to commit sex acts on camera.

The pervert haunted online games like Roblox and Minecraft to contact children. He joined group chats and persuaded some of his 146 victims with bribes like gaming credits.

The Pontypridd paedophile's vile abuse was only uncovered when he pulled up in his car by a group of young boys aged between seven and 14 by a playground in Ferndale and asked them to expose their private parts.

Thomas Price and Henry Price

The pair attacked door staff when they were refused entry to a Cardiff bar because they had children with them and were wearing jogging bottoms.

They were told they could not bring children into Yates on a Sunday night and did not meet the requirements of the dress code.

The brawl was caught on camera:

Men turned away from bar for wearing jogging bottoms attacked door staff

Shane Moon

(MEDIA WALES)

A police officer thought his arm was being “ripped off” after his hand got caught in a stinger while trying to stop a dangerous driver on the M4.

Business owner Moon, 32, drove in excess of 120mph in a police chase on the motorway when police recognised he was wanted in relation to a domestic incident.

Mark Hopkins

Mark Hopkins (South Wales Police)

The police officer who brought violent criminals to justice is now starting a life behind bars after being caught taking a cash bribe.

Detective constable Mark Hopkins derailed a criminal investigation more than a decade ago after persuading a teenage assault victim to withdraw a witness statement.

Jamie Germaine

Jamie Germaine was the head of a drug operation 'so large more than one stream of suppliers was required to keep up with the demand' (South Wales Police)

The drug lord was behind one of Cardiff's biggest ever operations and had almost £4m of cannabis pass through his home in six months.

The 46-year-old ran his drugs empire from his home in Llanrumney for more than 10 years before he was caught.

Tamika Rosser, Jack Delaney, and Adrian O'Neil

Tamika Rosser (left) Jack Delaney and Adrian O'Neil set a trap for takeaway delivery drivers at a block of flats in Swansea (South Wales Police)

The three out-of-control “feral” youngsters set traps to attack and rob unsuspecting takeaway delivery drivers.

But they met their match when a courageous driver, whom two of the group threatened with knives, took them on and knocked one of his attackers to the floor before charging at them.

Trio lured takeaway drivers to flat to rob them

Christopher Fisher

Christopher Charles Fisher (Dyfed-Powys Police)

His victim filled a pint glass with blood after being punched in the jaw in an unprovoked street attack.

The court heard Fisher was high on a “powerful and dangerous cocktail” of drugs, alcohol, and steroids when he attacked the victim and broke his jaw in four places.

Scott Curtis

Scott Curtis was jailed after his dashcam footage caught him dealing drugs (South Wales Police)

The bungling drug dealer caught himself in the act after using his own dashboard camera to film himself dealing.

Curtis, 45, was caught red-handed after throwing cocaine and cannabis out of the window before leading officers to his exploits.

Jonathan Lee Price

Jonathan Lee Price was sentenced to eight months in prison for dangerous driving (South Wales Police)

The driver reversed into a police car than led officers on an 85mph chase through residential streets in Swansea.

Price was eventually caught after police deployed a tyre-puncturing "stinger" device – but not before a chase on foot led to a garden of a nearby house. Swansea Crown Court heard the 30-year-old had neither a driving licence nor insurance.

Carol Day

Carol Day punched a woman in the face and stole her handbag (South Wales Police)

A grandmother has described how she is "in fear of leaving the house on her own" after being assaulted by Day and having her handbag stolen after going to the shops to buy sweets for her grandchildren.

Swansea Crown Court heard Helen Hawkins, who went to the shops to buy her grandchildren some confectionery at Premier Stores in Fforestfach, Swansea, was struck to the face.

Gareth Rogers

Gareth Rogers has been jailed (Dyfed-Powys Police)

The paedophile banned from the internet having twice been convicted of possessing indecent images was caught with hundreds of vile pictures of child abuse.

Rogers shook as police officers visited his home and discovered he had a mobile phone and two computers, which he was prohibited from owning.

Children as young as five were visible in the 1,129 images on one of the 62-year-old’s computers.

Joshua Lord

Joshua Lord has been jailed (South Wales Police)

The doctor of psychology used a “spy watch” to secretly film children getting changed in cubicles at Cardiff International Pool.

Lord, who previously worked at Cardiff University, slipped the covert camera beneath dividing walls in the changing area and recorded the young swimmers undressing.

Curtis Banfield

Curtis Banfield was jailed for 19 months (South Wales Police)

The paranoid violent boyfriend knocked his pregnant partner unconscious during a terrifying two-year campaign of controlling and violent behaviour.

Banfield would routinely slap, punch, throttle and spit at the woman and kept her locked in the house, controlled her money, and tried to cut her off from her friends and family.

Matthew Warwick

Matthew Warwick (South Wales Police)

Another “jealous” and “possessive” man who destroyed his partner’s confidence and left her feeling scared, anxious, and worthless after subjecting her to months of domestic abuse.

The 26-year-old repeatedly assaulted Kayleigh Brown by slamming her head against a wall, throwing his shoe at her, biting her wrist, and trying to drag her down the stairs.

Ieuan Richards

Ieuan Richards was responsible for a 'very ugly incident of domestic violence' (South Wales Police)

Yet another abusive partner who fractured his girlfriend’s eye socket during an assault claimed he was so drunk he could not remember anything about what happened.

The 19-year-old, who had been drinking and taking drugs, assaulted his then-partner Nikita Davies in her own home before pursuing her to her mother’s house and assaulting her mother.

Davod Kakrodi

Davod Kakrodi (South Wales Police)

The patient smashed up a hospital's vital heart machine leaving it irreparably damaged.

The 32-year-old caused damaged running to more than £15,000 and rendered a resuscitation cubicle "lost to the hospital and to the public" at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.

Vincent Matthews

Vincent Matthews (South Wales Police)

The businessman and former taxi driver raped a girl dozens of times over two years.

Matthews groomed his victim, who was under the age of 13, into thinking she was in a relationship with him. But instead the former director of Morriston RFC was abusing his victim.

William Clift

William Clift is now beginning a spell behind bars (South Wales Police)

The teenage dealer took a selfie with a caption boasting about how easy it was to make money selling drugs in Wales.

Clift also wrote on Facebook that prison was for "murderers, rapists and paedophiles not hard-working drug dealers".

Paul Roche and Paul Jones

Paul Roche and Paul Jones were both jailed (South Wales Police)

The pair were jailed for their part in a gang who imported more than 350,000 illegal diazepam tablets from Sri Lanka to Wales.

They were caught as part of Operation Etna to tackle the supply of Class C drugs into the UK and their onward distribution in the Bridgend area.

Idrees Ismail

Idrees Ismail (South Wales Police)

The burglar who was caught red-handed admitted he was so “off his face” he could not even remember how he got into his victim’s house.

Ismail was standing in the living room looking for things to steal in the early hours when the victim, who had just woken up, came in and shouted: “Thief.”

Jordan Ross

Jordan Ross (South Wales Police)

The dad-of-three who had been smoking cannabis exceeded 70mph as he led the police on a dangerous chase through residential streets in the early hours.

He failed to stop when an officer indicated for him to pull over, instead speeding off and driving the wrong way down a slip road and around a roundabout.

Laura Nicholas

Laura Nicholas (North Wales Police)

Nicholas was high on cocaine when she burst into a shop with a knife, threatening to stab her ex-boyfriend while terrified shoppers looked on in horror.

The mum-of-two stormed into the Co-Op store in Leeswood, Flintshire, in pursuit of her former partner Paul Loose.

Nathaniel Cummings

Nathaniel Cummings (South Wales Police)

The bricklayer took a large knife into a busy pub in Cardiff on a Friday night intending to enforce a debt.

Cummings threatened to stab a woman who stepped in to try and calm the situation then started waving the blade around and jabbing it towards another man.

Richard Hawkey

Richard Hawkey (South Wales Police)

The "callous” robber snatched a vulnerable pensioner’s handbag as she lay crying in pain after he pushed her over, leaving her with a broken shoulder.

Drugged-up Hawkey – who had stolen his disabled mother’s laptop just hours earlier – attacked Sandra Lewis in her own home after she asked him to help her with her boiler.

Daniel Ankrett

Daniel Ankrett has been jailed for 16 months (South Wales Police)

He was jailed after the court heard how he clambered through his ex’s window before attacking her then pressing a knife to her throat and warning: “I could easily kill you”.

His actions towards former partner of nine months Katrina Davies were described by a judge as an act of “juvenile jealousy”.

David Gatsizi

David Gatsizi (South Wales Police)

The drug addict who was moved to Cardiff to help him make a “fresh start” was caught dealing heroin, cocaine and cannabis on the streets.

Gatsizi, who started using drugs when he was 15, was spotted by police officers dealing in Cathays after he was released under investigation for earlier drugs offences.

Connor Caton

Connor Caton (South Wales Police)

The drug dealer ran away from police after he was caught on CCTV snorting cocaine outside a club in the early hours of the morning.

Caton threw away four bags of the Class A drug, which was later found to be at a high purity and worth £200, as officers chased him through  Barry.

Paul Davies

Paul Davies admitted fraud (South Wales Police)

The supermarket worker used a photo of hunky cage fighter Cody Garbrandt on his bogus Tinder profile to swindle £16,000 from women.

He posed as a high-flying executive living in a luxury penthouse in Cardiff to con women.

Raymond Evans

Raymond Evans rarely goes out and spends much of his time playing computer games, a judge was told (South Wales Police)

The persistent sex offender downloaded pictures of young girls at the beach and swimming pool using a computer at a local library.

Evans had been banned from owning a computer to access the internet by the terms of a sexual harm prevention order imposed following a previous conviction.

But when police made an unannounced visit to his home they found a laptop in his bedroom containing pictures of girls.

David Kerr

David Kerr (Dorset Police)

The BMW driver was tucking into hummus and a French stick when he drifted onto the wrong side of the road and ploughed head-on into a car carrying a family of four.

Kerr smashed into the oncoming car – carrying a couple and their two young children – and sent it spinning off the road and down an embankment.

Jordan Davenport

Jordan Davenport (South Wales Police)

The barefooted burglar was caught by the police at a bus stop in Cardiff after leaving his football boots behind in his victims’ garden.

Davenport drew attention to himself in a supermarket when he walked in with no shoes on, carrying a large bag and spent £100 in five separate card payments.

Simon Morrisey

Simon Morrisey, 43, from Lawrenny Avenue in Canton, Cardiff (South Wales Police)

The “cack-handed” burglar smashed his way into the Vivienne Westwood store in Cardiff and grabbed £2,000 worth of handbags then tried to escape on a bicycle.

Morrisey, who had 124 previous offences on his lengthy criminal record, hurled a stone at the large city centre shop window before throwing himself inside and grabbing the items.

Stuart Smith and Daniel Niinemae

Stuart Smith (left) and Daniel Niinemae (right) (Gwent Police)

They were part of a gang of thieves who stole cars worth more than £100,000 by driving them off as the owners were defrosting their windscreens on cold winter mornings.

Cardiff Crown Court heard Smith and Niinemae were out on the streets stealing vehicles and then they had a go-between taking them to a buyer in Telford.

Bradley McCann

Bradley McCann (South Wales Police)

The burglar reached through a home’s catflap to steal cash from a table inside.

McCann pushed a branch through the catflap at the property to steal cash and a £150 money clip.

Andrew Dobler

Andrew James Dobler has been jailed for five years having pleaded guilty to 10 counts of sexual assault of a child under the age of 13 (South Wales Police)

A judge condemned the "appalling" actions of Dobler who abused two young children and told them to keep it a secret.

He appeared at Swansea Crown Court having pleaded guilty to 10 counts of sexual assault of a child under the age of 13.

The offending took place in the Swansea area and involved two young girls.

Angelo Edwards

Angelo Edwards was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment (Dyfed-Powys Police)

The man with a "violent and uncontrolled temper" smashed a bottle across the face of another at a pub in an unprovoked attack before running away, leaving the victim needing stitches.

Swansea Crown Court heard Edwards went out on December 21 last year with his brother Mario and they went for a drink at the Dragon pub in Narberth.

Dion Stanford

Dion Stanford complained paramedics had spoiled his heroin 'high' (South Wales Police)

The heroin user given a life-saving jab after overdosing complained to the paramedics who administered it that they spoiled his “high”.

Stanford then walked away from the medics and tried to burgle a house before collapsing in the street.

Matthew Thomas

Matthew Thomas pleaded guilty to sending malicious communications in May last year (Dyfed-Powys Police)

Thomas repeatedly made webcam calls to a teenager with cerebral palsy forcing her to watch him carry out a sex act on himself.

Appearing at Swansea Crown Court via videolink, he pleaded guilty to sending malicious communications in May last year.

Hoseal Werie and Asad Rehman

Hoseal Werie (left) and Asad Rehman from Birmingham were dealing heroin and crack cocaine on the streets of Swansea (West Midlands Police / South Wales Police)

The drug dealers offered teenage customers a “happy hour” deal on heroin and crack cocaine.

The pair travelled from Birmingham to Swansea to deal drugs and were making thousands of pounds from the trade.

Drugs gang

All four men have been jailed (Dyfed-Powys Police)

The drugs gang travelled from England to peddle drugs on the streets of Llanelli.

Ravi Talware, Daniel Higgins and Ben Walker all travelled from the West Midlands area to the town to take part in an operation which conspired to supply cocaine, heroin, spice, and cannabis.

Justin Hollis

Justin Hollis (South Wales Police)

The thug attacked his ex-partner’s new boyfriend with a solar lamp and punched him in the face after spending the day drinking.

The 38-year-old was subject to a restraining order against former partner Zoe Blackett made in 2014.

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