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Locked Up: The rapists, paedophiles, drug gangs and other criminals sent to prison in Wales last month

These are the criminals locked up in Wales in the past month.

They include a drink driver who ploughed into two people outside a nightclub, leaving one of them with life-changing injuries.

Other criminals sent to prison during September 2019 include a woman who knocked her social worker unconscious and a disqualified driver who ploughed into busy Cardiff takeaway on a Friday night.

Here are their faces and their crimes.

 

Adam Taylor

Adam Taylor, 31, was jailed for two years and eight months for causing serious injury by dangerous driving (South Wales Police)

 

The former soldier in a van mowed down two people outside a nightclub while four times over the drink driving limit.

One of his victims suffered a bleed on the brain and is in the process of having a feeding tube inserted into his stomach.

Lewis Cadogan

The disqualified driver left a mother believing she was going to die after ploughing into a popular Chinese takeaway on a Friday night.

Horrifying footage shows the moment Cadogan, 31, smashes through the window of the Man Po takeaway after a 80mph police chase in Ely, Cardiff . 

Car smashes into takeaway at 80mph as customers wait for food

Terrence Jenkins

Terrence Jenkins arranged to meet what he thought was a 13-year-old girl for sex (South Wales Police)

The paedophile travelled to meet a 13-year-old girl to “take her virginity”.

Jenkins had spent the previous week grooming what he thought was a young schoolgirl he had met on social media.

But the 50-year-old had in fact been conversing with a member of a paedophile hunter group and was confronted by members of the organisation when he turned up at a McDonald’s car park for the expected rendezvous.

Tawab Shinwari

Tawab Shinwari admitted rape but then claimed his victim had fabricated everything when he was interviewed for a pre-sentence report (South Wales Police)

The rapist attacked a woman he met outside a Cardiff bar when he took her in a taxi to an alleyway and forced himself on her.

Tawab Shinwari, 21, approached his victim outside Kiwis in St Mary Street after she had become separated from her friends.

She said he appeared “charming” at first and invited her back to his home for coffee and said he he would ring her a taxi to a relative’s house.

But when they got out of the cab near his home he dragged her into an alleyway, restrained and kicked her, and brutally sexually assaulted and raped her.

Sean Montgomery

Former Merthyr Town FC footballer Sean Montgomery, 18, was locked up for 44 months for running a Class A drugs line into Cardiff (South Wales Police)

 

The teenage drug dealer handed himself into police after he was chased by a masked gang wielding machetes.

Sean Montgomery, 18, became attracted to the “glamorous” life of a drug dealer and ran a Class A drugs line into Cardiff.

With the profits he bought expensive clothes and holidays but he became disillusioned with the lifestyle when he was threatened with a machete by a group he didn’t know.

The former Merthyr Town FC footballer was initially caught red-handed by the police while dealing in Adamsdown.

Vincent Thomas

(South Wales Evening Post)

 

Children playing in a park fled for cover as gunman Thomas brandished an air rifle.

Pellets struck a seven-year-old girl when he deliberately fired towards the youngsters and sent his victim and other children scurrying into the bushes for cover.

Matthew Anthony Lewis and Matthew Philip Lewis

Matthew Anthony Lewis (left) and Matthew Philip Lewis were trafficking cocaine from Cardiff to west Wales (Dyfed-Powys Police)

 

The two dealers (who are both called Matthew Lewis) trafficked cocaine from Cardiff to west Wales and were caught red-handed when officers swooped on their car at a petrol station.

Officers boxed in their Mercedes at a garage on a busy A road in an intelligence-led operation.

When quizzed about their trip to the capital one of them joked he had been shopping in JD Sports - but didn't know which branch because it was dark.

Christian Jones

Christian Jones, who has been jailed for 16 months for assault on his then partner - who he kicked, punched and bit (South Wales Police)

He punched, kicked and bit his partner after she told him to get out of their bed when he wet the sheets in his sleep.

Jones, 25, launched the brutal assault on his then partner Nicole Pitcock, 22, on August 18 after returning from an alcohol-fuelled night out.

Ceri Stickler

Ceri Stickler (South Wales Police)

 

The carer conned more than £36,000 from a “frail” 96-year-old woman and used it to order clothes for herself from Peacocks, ASOS and Sports Direct.

Stickler breached her position of trust by defrauding Margaret Freitas, who was unable to leave her bed following a fall, taking advantage of her cheque book and bank details.

Sentencing the defendant at Cardiff Crown Court , Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke said: “She was a particularly vulnerable lady because of her age and frailty.”

Matthew Davies

Railway worker Matthew Davies has been jailed (South Wales Police)

 

The youth team rugby coach sank his teeth into a bouncer’s nose in a drunken attack which left his victim permanently scarred.

Davies “latched on” to the doorman’s nose after being told off about his behaviour towards a woman in the bar.

He left his victim needing four stitches to a wound by his nostrils and with a permanent scar on his face.

Marcus Bounds

Marcus Bounds' plan to steal a VW Golf GTI worked right up to the point where he crashed into a hedge while being chased by police (South Wales Police)

The car thief led police on a 100mph chase after stealing number plates then breaking into a house and taking a high-performance car.

Bounds carefully planned the theft which saw him book into a hotel for the night to use as a base, target similar cars to remove their plates, then going to a house where he knew the sporty Volkswagen Golf would be waiting.

But the plan came crashing down around him after police spotted him on the motorway and he ended up slamming into a hedge after losing control at a roundabout.

Thomas Hagans

Thomas Hagans (Gwent Police)

 

The dad-of-seven travelled to south Wales from Birmingham and tried to break into a cash point containing more than £30,000 at a garage in Pontypool. 

Hagans was one of a group who prised off the front of the ATM with a crowbar in the middle of the night trying to get at the cash inside.

Jahwan Blake

Jahwan Blake (South Wales Police)

A drug gang selling crack and heroin in Cardiff was busted – because the ringleader kept ringing his mum on phones used by the dealers.

Blake, 37, had spent two years as part of an organised crime group peddling drugs in Roath and Cathays before he was caught.

Edward Kumsah

Edward Kumsah (South Wales Police)

 

Four million people had their online accounts hacked as a group of fraudsters targeted Tesco, Boots, and Goldsmiths customers in a “substantial and sophisticated” fraud.

Kumsah, Jade Ofomola, Demi Okoi and Jamie Evans caused loss of more than £60,000 to the retailers by gaining unauthorised access to loyalty accounts and buying high-value goods.

Mark Richards

Mark Richards (Dyfed-Powys Police)

The paedophile took condoms and lubrication jelly when he travelled to meet a 13-year-old girl he planned to have sex with.

Richards had chatted to what he believed was a schoolgirl online and arranged to meet for sex. But the "girl" was a police officer working as part of an undercover operation targeting would-be child sex offenders.

Jonathan Kay

Jonathan Kay, 54, from Monmouth (Gwent Police)

 

The former Royal Navy officer paid prostitutes in the Philippines to sexually abuse children on webcams to satisfy his “sickening fantasies”.

When he was caught, Kay claimed he was a paedophile hunter trying to help the victims and asked his daughter to hide one of his devices from the police.

Melissa Robinson

Melissa Jade Robinson was sentenced to 12 months for GHB after stabbing a customer at the Eagle pub in Treboeth, Swansea (South Wales Police)

 

 The pub boss who stabbed a customer was sent to prison just one week after giving birth.

Robinson attacked Emma Martin in the car park of the bar she was running, causing a puncture wound on the woman's arm.

The court heard arrangements can be made for her new baby to join her behind bars, but for that to happen Robinson will have to make a successful application to the prison governor.

Ian Cheshire

Ian Cheshire has been jailed for a year (Dyfed-Powys Police)

Despite asking to be spared a punishment which would stop him taking his annual two-month trip to France to avoid cold weather at home, the drug dealer was jailed for a year.

A judge condemned the 48-year-old’s attitude and said the remark was “one of the most shocking things I have seen in a long time”, adding: “You are not above the law.”

He had been caught in Pembrokeshire with heroin worth £4,500.

Daniel Williams

Swansea Crown Court heard Daniel Williams abuses a wide range of drugs (South Wales Police)

After robbing a pharmacy, Williams told a passerby who tried to detain him that he had Aids and would spit at him.

He had snatched morphine from the behind the counter of a Boots branch and was fleeing when members of the public intervened to try to stop him.

Raylizabeth Lloyd

Raylizabeth Lloyd (South Wales Police)

 

The mum-of-two knocked a social worker unconscious and left her with a head injury after becoming “frustrated” during a meeting.

Raylizabeth Lloyd threatened to push Gail Cotton down a flight of steps then shoved her backwards, causing her to hit her head on the concrete.

Marvin Hanson

Marvin Dane Hanson (South Wales Police)

 

The speeding driver who hit a pedestrian, sending him flying across two lanes of a dual carriageway, doubled back to pose as a concerned passer-by before driving home like nothing had happened.

The IT manager was driving at more than 51mph in a 30mph zone along Caerphilly Road in Cardiff when he ploughed into 27-year-old Jesse Taylor as he walked home from a night out with friends.

Nicholoyd Harris

Nicholoyd Harris (South Wales Police)

 

The teenage gang member with a history of robberies and carrying knives was sent to Swansea to deal drugs.

After Harris was arrested and released under investigation in his hometown of Birmingham he disappeared - only to reappear in south Wales.

Simon Draper

Simon Draper, 33, was jailed for 18 weeks for denying he was driving a car involved in a collision while uninsured (South Wales Police)

 

The 33-year-old was jailed for 18 weeks for denying he was driving a car involved in a collision while uninsured.

His partner, Stephanie Harry, and Draper lied to the authorities after the crash, telling the police and ambulance service she had been the driver.

Lyndon Matthews

Lyndon Matthews pleaded guilty to three sexual assaults (South Wales Police)

 

The "dangerous" paedophile who abused two underage girls was jailed for eight years.

Matthews, 35, from Barry, was locked up at Newport Crown Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a girl under 16 and one count of sexual assault on a girl under 13 by touching.

Salama Othman and Marwan Kshloth

 

 

The pair were involved in a plot that saw a drug dealer threaten to kill a man and "cut his genitals and fingers off" during a shocking kidnap witnessed by people in the street.

Othman, 34, and Kshloth, 30, were involved in the plot to extract money and jewellery from Mohammed Taymouri, 40, and his wife Rozhin, which culminated in the former being kidnapped in his own car and attacked until his ankle snapped.

Cameron Hussain, Usmaan Ali, and Hassan Aftab

Cameron Hussain (bottom right), Usmaan Ali (top right), and Hassan Aftab (South Wales Police)

 

The three robbers hired a car and drove from Birmingham to Swansea to mug a woman and steal her handbag containing more than £23,000 in a planned attack.

The victim was repeatedly punched in the face as the trio stole her bag and made off in a waiting Mercedes.

Jay Davison

Jay Davison (South Wales Police)
Jay Davison shared the topless pictures of himself posing with a gun alongside offensive captions (Crown Prosecution Service)

Jailed for stirring up racial and religious hatred after posting photographs of himself with a shotgun alongside “extremely offensive” comments online.

Davison posted two images of himself topless posing with the weapon across his body on Instagram accompanied by violent messages about Muslims and phrases associated with Nazism.

Craig Montagnolo

Craig Montagnolo (South Wales Police)

 

He kneed his flatmate to the head and threatened to kill him with a cut-throat razor in a row which escalated after a cup was smashed on the floor.

Swansea Crown Court heard how Montagnolo had consumed alcohol and drugs in the early hours of April 21 when, without warning, he smashed a cup in the hallway of the Ystalyfera property he shared with his housemate of three years Jamie Davies.

Junior Forbes-Williams and Andrew Taylor

Junior Forbes-Williams (left) and Andrew Taylor (right) have been jailed (Dyfed-Powys Police)

 

The pair were involved in a county lines drugs operation which brought drugs from Birmingham onto the streets of Llanelli have begun serving lengthy jail sentences.

Swansea Crown Court heard how there was an operation being run from the Birmingham area where cocaine and heroin were being brought into Llanelli using a telephone referred to as the Marco Line.

Jason Edgar Morris

Jason Edgar Morris has been jailed for three years and five months after robbing a 'frail' man of £300 (South Wales Police)

 

The heroin addict followed an elderly and frail man home, knocked him over and robbed of £300 he had withdrawn from a cash point.

The man, who struggles with mobility, was left with a bloodied face and broken glasses after being attacked from behind by Morris outside his home.

Jason Vincent

Jason Vincent, 48, was jailed after assaulting a pensioner while intoxicated in Pontypridd town centre (South Wales Police)

The "zombie like" man assaulted a pensioner when he went on a rampage through a town centre smashing windows.

Vincent, 48, was filmed stumbling through Taff Street in Pontypridd on a lunchtime trying to smash shop windows with an advertising placard he had picked up.

Jason Vincent, filmed rampaging through Pontypridd

Damien John

Damien John has been jailed for a year (South Wales Police)

The BMW driver jumped two red lights as he led police on a mile-long chase late at night.

Officers began following John after they spotted him driving erratically through Neath just before midnight on May 29.

Louise Boyce and Nathan Leggatt

The mum lied on a birth certificate about the identity of her baby's father to spite the real dad.

Boyce, 30, who is now heavily pregnant again, pretended her new partner Nathan Legatt was the real father of her child. The pair were both jailed.

Daniel Taylor

Daniel Taylor, 39, of Colcot Road, Barry (South Wales Police)

 

The Barry man was jailed for more than eight years after being convicted of rape and a number of other offences.

Taylor, 39, had pleaded not guilty to the charges against him but was sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison after a trial.

Ryan Griffiths

Ryan Griffiths was snared by three separate paedophile hunter groups (South Wales Police)

The Amazon worker was caught by three different paedophile hunter groups trying to meet young girls while already facing criminal charges.

Griffiths started talking to a girl on Facebook messenger in May last year, with the conversation quickly turning sexual despite the girl telling him she was just 13.

Swansea Crown Court heard that the girl didn’t exist and was a decoy set up by paedophile hunter group PH Balance. Members of the group went to confront Griffiths at Amazon in Swansea where he worked.

Sochi Ezeemo and Peter Shodeinde

Sochi Ezeemo (left) and Peter Shodeinde (right) (South Wales Police)

A vulnerable man was kidnapped and tortured while he was held prisoner for three days as one of his captors blackmailed his family for money.

The victim was subjected to beatings as kidnappers Ezeemo and Shodeinde tried to enforce an alleged debt, with Ezeemo trying to extort money from his family.

Bang Xuan Luong, Khanh Van Pham, Vi Thi Thu Thuy

They were part of a Vietnamese drugs gang have been jailed after police seized tonnes of cannabis worth millions of pounds.

South Wales Police confiscated 2.5 tonnes of cannabis with a street value of around £6m from the gang.

Now 21 people have been sentenced following an investigation into a cannabis factory in the Cynon Valley.

Christopher Sayce

Christopher Sayce (South Wales Police)

 

Christopher Sayce was just our of prison when he launched a vicious attack on his girlfriend who'd just told him she was pregnant.

He dragged her by the hair, punched her repeatedly and stamped on her. He was remanded in custody following the assault and then wrote a series of letters in a bid to persuade the complainant and witnesses to withdraw their police statements.

Sayce was jailed for 32 months and the judge imposed a five-year restraining order.

Simon Evans

Simon Evans (South Wales Police)

Paedophile Simon Evans befriended a girl on Facebook and then started to send her persistent sexually explicit messages suggesting she should lose her virginity to him.

Evans left his teenage victim feeling confused and uncomfortable when he made comments about her body and asked for a naked picture of her.

He sent her one message saying: “I have never felt this sexually attracted to a 13-year-old before. I must sound like a pervert paedo to you, sorry.”

Evans was jailed for three years and nine months.

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