Cardiff Crown Court Sentencing Results

Jordan Webster, 30, from Ely, participated in the Ely riot in May 2023 after the deaths of two teenagers. He threw stones and helped move debris into the road as officers tried to bring the disorder under control.

The defendant took part in the large-scale public disorder in Ely, Cardiff on 22 May 2023. The riot involved at least 12 people acting together using or threatening unlawful violence, causing widespread damage to homes, vehicles and property and injuring 31 police officers. The prosecution relied on drone footage, social media and police body-worn video to prove the defendant's role.

The defendant took part in the large-scale public disorder in Ely, Cardiff on 22 May 2023. The riot involved at least 12 people acting together using or threatening unlawful violence, causing widespread damage to homes, vehicles and property and injuring 31 police officers. The prosecution relied on drone footage, social media and police body-worn video to prove the defendant's role.

The defendant took part in the large-scale public disorder in Ely, Cardiff on 22 May 2023. The riot involved at least 12 people acting together using or threatening unlawful violence, causing widespread damage to homes, vehicles and property and injuring 31 police officers. The prosecution relied on drone footage, social media and police body-worn video to prove the defendant's role.

The defendant took part in the large-scale public disorder in Ely, Cardiff on 22 May 2023. The riot involved at least 12 people acting together using or threatening unlawful violence, causing widespread damage to homes, vehicles and property and injuring 31 police officers. The prosecution relied on drone footage, social media and police body-worn video to prove the defendant's role.

The defendant took part in the large-scale public disorder in Ely, Cardiff on 22 May 2023. The riot involved at least 12 people acting together using or threatening unlawful violence, causing widespread damage to homes, vehicles and property and injuring 31 police officers. The prosecution relied on drone footage, social media and police body-worn video to prove the defendant's role.

The defendant took part in the large-scale public disorder in Ely, Cardiff on 22 May 2023. The riot involved at least 12 people acting together using or threatening unlawful violence, causing widespread damage to homes, vehicles and property and injuring 31 police officers. The prosecution relied on drone footage, social media and police body-worn video to prove the defendant's role.

The defendant took part in the large-scale public disorder in Ely, Cardiff on 22 May 2023. The riot involved at least 12 people acting together using or threatening unlawful violence, causing widespread damage to homes, vehicles and property and injuring 31 police officers. The prosecution relied on drone footage, social media and police body-worn video to prove the defendant's role.

The defendant took part in the large-scale public disorder in Ely, Cardiff on 22 May 2023. The riot involved at least 12 people acting together using or threatening unlawful violence, causing widespread damage to homes, vehicles and property and injuring 31 police officers. The prosecution relied on drone footage, social media and police body-worn video to prove the defendant's role.

The defendant took part in the large-scale public disorder in Ely, Cardiff on 22 May 2023. The riot involved at least 12 people acting together using or threatening unlawful violence, causing widespread damage to homes, vehicles and property and injuring 31 police officers. The prosecution relied on drone footage, social media and police body-worn video to prove the defendant's role.

Ross Cooper, a 44-year-old pub manager, was originally sentenced in March 2025 to a three-year community order with 150 hours unpaid work and a 30-day rehabilitation activity requirement after pleading guilty to possessing 280 indecent photographs of children (31 category A, 19 category B, 230 category C) and 68 extreme pornographic images showing a person performing a sexual act with animals, as well as four prohibited images of children. The offending took place on 18 May 2023. He breached the community order for a second time, having made minimal progress. He appeared at Cardiff Crown Court and admitted the breach. Judge Lucy Crowther jailed him for six months, revoked the community order, and ordered him to sign the sex offenders register for seven years.

Thomas Price, 62, was banned for life from keeping animals following a 2021 conviction for 32 counts of animal cruelty relating to sheep and horses, for which he received six months imprisonment, and a further six months in 2022 for breaching the order. On 3 December 2025, PCSOs patrolling Pengam Green in Cardiff found him in possession of horse feed and equine items including a rope and a pallet in Seawall Road. On 18 December 2025, he was again seen in Seawall Road tending to horses. These actions breached the criminal behaviour order. Price had previously kept animals in atrocious conditions, with welfare officers discovering maggot-ridden sheep, carcasses, unshorn animals, and 240 horses standing in deep mud without adequate food or water, surrounded by hazards such as sharp metal and barbed wire.

Corey Eaves, 28, of Gilfach Goch, took the keys to a Nissan Juke belonging to the partner of a friend he was staying with in the early hours of April 26, making a vulgar gesture as he left. He drove the stolen car and was spotted by police shortly before 1am. Officers located the vehicle again around 2.30am and attempted to box it in, but Eaves reversed into a police car causing £7,000 damage before fleeing down an alleyway. He led police on a chase along narrow lanes, reaching 80mph in a 20mph zone on Gilfach Road, Tonyrefail. A stinger was deployed but he continued driving until the car stopped, after which he attempted to flee on foot but was caught. A breath test showed 58 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml of breath, over the 35 microgram limit. He was also a disqualified driver. Two days earlier, he stole a 10-pack of Carlsberg cans worth £11.29 from a petrol station he had been banned from.

Mark Hagland and Tracy Williams lured the victim to a property in Pontprennau on December 7, 2023. After eating and drinking, Hagland became aggressive upon learning the victim was Muslim, slapped him, kicked him in the chest, threatened to murder him and demanded money. Williams joined in, punching the victim, throwing pasta sauce over him and forcing him into a bathtub of water. The victim was pushed down stairs, strangled and threatened with a knife. He suffered multiple broken ribs. Hagland fled in his underpants and was later found hiding nearby.

Tracy Williams spent two months messaging the victim on Facebook before luring him to her Pontprennau home on December 7, 2023, under the pretence of being lonely. She and Mark Hagland assaulted the victim after he declined to smoke crack cocaine. Williams punched him, threw pasta sauce over his face, forced him into a bathtub of water, pushed him down stairs and threatened him with a kitchen knife. She falsely claimed to police that the victim had sexually assaulted her. The victim suffered multiple broken ribs.

Shaun Moran, a 42-year-old man from Trowbridge in Cardiff, was arrested in March 2026 after South Wales Police officers visited his home following intelligence that someone at the address had been sharing child sexual abuse material online. Digital devices were seized and examined, uncovering evidence of Moran distributing over 1,300 indecent images and videos of children, with international law enforcement cooperation. He pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court.

Robert Davies left a series of 11 voicemails threatening to stab his victim to death and stating they would need witness protection. The offences occurred while he was on bail conditions prohibiting contact with the victim. After arrest he caused damage to his cell.

Kieren Pash subjected the victim to over a decade of domestic abuse starting from when they were teenagers in Cardiff. Abuse escalated after moving in together in 2015, including pushes, shoves, black eyes in 2021, and severe incidents: strangulations on two occasions between December 1 and 31, 2022; horrific attack on August 22, 2025 involving attempted drowning in bath, biting nose, wrist injury requiring hospital; attacks on September 19, 2025 (launched at victim, smashed TV), September 25, 2025 (threatened to knock door down); final incident on October 3, 2025 involving double-handed strangulation, headlock, knee on neck, pillow over face, smashing phone on face. Arrested October 5, 2025.

Alexander Creqama, 23, from Albania, entered the UK illegally on the back of a lorry from Spain. He was found tending to a cannabis farm at a property in Ystradgynlais, Wales, on March 23, 2026, after police executed a drugs warrant. The house had five rooms dedicated to growing 249 cannabis plants (mature and seedlings) using hydroponic equipment, with a potential yield of 6.5kg to 19.5kg, wholesale value up to £98,000, or up to £214,000 if broken down. There had been one previous harvest, indicated by cuttings, and electricity was bypassed. He was the sole occupant, had been there for a year, claimed he was forced to look after the plants, and received £5,000 per harvest (25% of sales value).

Rhydian Mason, 36, of Pontypool, breached his sexual harm prevention order imposed in 2018 by deleting his browsing history, using private and incognito browsers, and downloading and removing chatbot roleplay apps, including Apex Girls. The breaches were discovered during a routine annual sex offender risk assessment by Gwent Police officers at his home last autumn. The offending took place between 8 and 22 October 2025. He has prior convictions for attempting to cause or incite a child to engage in sexual activity and attempted sexual communication with a child.

On a night in December 2024, Richard Evan Rhys Williams, a 54-year-old Grand National trainer, repeatedly struck 72-year-old Martin Dandridge with a hockey stick during a night-time assault in Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan, while the victim was walking his dog on Williams's land. The attack broke the victim's arm, causing ongoing pain in his forearm and lasting physical and mental impact, including feelings of helplessness.

Dilshad Shamo, 43, originally from Iraq, and Ali Khdir organised a large-scale people smuggling network using the Fast Track Car Wash on Pontygwindy Road in Caerphilly as a cover. They arranged the movement of large numbers of migrants, predominantly from Iran, Iraq and Syria, across multiple European countries including Italy, Romania, Croatia, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Austria and France. Migrants were charged thousands of pounds, with an estimated turnover of £1.8 million over six months between October 2022 and April 2023. Methods included shipping from Turkey to Italy, using tourist visas via Belarus and Moldova to Romania, Germany or Austria, concealing people in lorries to Italy and Germany, and transporting via cars or taxis through Bosnia to Croatia, Slovenia and Italy. National Crime Agency raided the premises and recovered hidden mobile phones with evidence of the operation.

Omed Pirot, 31, was part of a group of seven men involved in a daytime brawl in Blackwood High Street on February 2025 to settle a dispute between Kurd Barbers in Newbridge and Marmaris barbers. The fight began inside Marmaris barbers, spilled onto the street, causing traffic standstill and terrifying members of the public, including children and staff in nearby businesses. One man suffered a fractured skull, and weapons were used. Pirot was linked to the Blackwood barbers and arrested after leaving hospital for treatment to a fracture to his forehead and eye socket.

Ali Khdir, 42, originally from Iran, and Dilshad Shamo organised a large-scale people smuggling network using the Fast Track Car Wash on Pontygwindy Road in Caerphilly as a cover. They arranged the movement of large numbers of migrants, predominantly from Iran, Iraq and Syria, across multiple European countries including Italy, Romania, Croatia, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Austria and France. Migrants were charged thousands of pounds, with an estimated turnover of £1.8 million over six months between October 2022 and April 2023. Methods included shipping from Turkey to Italy, using tourist visas via Belarus and Moldova to Romania, Germany or Austria, concealing people in lorries to Italy and Germany, and transporting via cars or taxis through Bosnia to Croatia, Slovenia and Italy. National Crime Agency raided the premises and recovered hidden mobile phones with evidence of the operation.

Alan Karimi, 31, was part of a group of seven men involved in a daytime brawl in Blackwood High Street on February 2025 to settle a dispute between Kurd Barbers in Newbridge and Marmaris barbers. The fight began inside Marmaris barbers, spilled onto the street, causing traffic standstill and terrifying members of the public, including children and staff in nearby businesses. One man suffered a fractured skull, and weapons were used. Karimi was arrested at Kurd Barbers in Newbridge with blood-stained clothing and puncture wounds on his back.

Adnan Mohamad, 30, was part of a group of seven men involved in a daytime brawl in Blackwood High Street on February 2025 to settle a dispute between Kurd Barbers in Newbridge and Marmaris barbers. The fight began inside Marmaris barbers, spilled onto the street, causing traffic standstill and terrifying members of the public, including children and staff in nearby businesses. One man suffered a fractured skull, and weapons were used. Mohamad was arrested at Kurd Barbers in Newbridge with blood-stained clothing and puncture wounds on his back.

Bryar Muradi, 30, was part of a group of seven men involved in a daytime brawl in Blackwood High Street on February 2025 to settle a dispute between Kurd Barbers in Newbridge and Marmaris barbers. The fight began inside Marmaris barbers, spilled onto the street, causing traffic standstill and terrifying members of the public, including children and staff in nearby businesses. One man suffered a fractured skull, and weapons were used. Muradi was arrested at the scene with blood-stained clothing.