Cardiff Crown Court Sentencing Results

Ashley Corbin travelled from Bristol to Cardiff with a co-defendant on 7 June 2025. The co-defendant had a loaded double-barrelled shotgun and fired it through the letterbox of a residential property, injuring the victim's legs. The victim was not the intended target. Corbin had been waiting nearby and then ran off. He was arrested on 16 June 2025 in a stolen vehicle in Bristol.

Michael Dumbuya drove from London to a property in south Wales to enforce a drug debt, but targeted a man who had nothing to do with the matter. In the early hours of 20 May 2025, the victim was dragged from his bed and repeatedly punched and kicked. Dumbuya fled and was pursued by police on the M4 near Caerleon until his vehicle crashed into another motorist at junction 17. He was arrested after climbing out of the driver's side window. Police recovered a loaded sawn-off shotgun, a balaclava, gloves and a CO2 powered pistol from his car. DNA on the firearms matched Dumbuya and the victim's blood was found on his clothes.

Liam Key, 23, of Heol y Mynydd, Hendreforgan, Gilfach Goch, was discovered by police on September 24, 2024, during the arrest of another man at a property. He had sent a text saying 'I'm out by the gate' and was waiting in his silver Volkswagen Golf. When approached, he appeared nervous and shaking, giving conflicting accounts. A search revealed 1.04g of cocaine in a cling film bag and a black iPhone showing he arranged supplies of cocaine and cannabis to at least 17 customers between August and September 2024, with deals up to £380 and payments on tick, including debts of £510 and £650. Further seizure included 23.9g of cocaine, over £4,500 in cash, weighing scales, and cling film bags.

Jean-Paul Sterckx, 49, of Watkiss Way, Grangetown, Cardiff, engaged in sexualised conversations via Kik and Snapchat apps in 2022 with undercover Metropolitan Police officers posing as 13-year-old girls. He sent images of himself in underwear and workman's trousers showing his groin, asked sexual questions including about masturbation, virginity, and naughty fun, and attempted a video call. Upon arrest, he claimed his phone had been hacked and expressed regret to his children. He breached an existing Sexual Harm Prevention Order from 2015.

David Samuel, 39, of Caldicot, began speaking with an account purporting to be a 14-year-old boy named Jaydan on the Chat Avenue platform in 2023. The conversation moved to WhatsApp and when the decoy confirmed he was 14, Samuel sent a photo of his erect penis. He asked the decoy for photos, told him he was 'horny', asked if he wanted to see him masturbate on a video call, and suggested trading nudes. Police arrested him on August 7, 2023, and seized his phone, which contained 11 category A, five category B, and 26 category C indecent images of children aged one to 15 being sexually abused, plus evidence of distributing a category A image and possessing a prohibited animated image of child abuse.

On September 9, 2023, at Fagins bar and restaurant in Church Village, Pontypridd, Georgia Hemburrow, 25, of Carmarthen Drive, Tonteg, approached the victim who was sitting at a table. Hemburrow was verbally aggressive and argumentative. After a bangle fell off her wrist and the victim bent to pick it up, Hemburrow threw the contents of a thick whisky tumbler over the victim, then threw the glass which hit the victim in the forehead with force, causing severe bleeding and a permanent scar requiring stitches. Hemburrow left the scene without concern for the victim.

On April 14, 2025, Rebecca Morgan, 44, accompanied her husband in chasing his daughter's ex-partner, the victim, from their home in Fernhill, Mountain Ash, brandishing a six-inch kitchen knife and warning him to stay away. This occurred as the victim tried to enter the property to collect his children, with friends witnessing the pursuit and fearing for their safety.

James Liddle, 23, of Ringwood Hill, Newport, drove to his ex partner's home in Newport at 2.17am after sending abusive messages about access to his daughter. He arrived in a Volkswagen Golf, pulled her by the hair into the car, and drove off at excessive speeds while angry, erratic, and inhaling gas from a balloon. He hit the pedestrian victim who was crossing Somerton Road, causing a loud bang and smashing the windscreen, but continued driving. The victim was found in a pool of blood with extensive head injuries including a deformed head, significant forehead wound, multiple facial fractures (eye socket, jaw, nose), skull, neck, and upper back injuries, and a degloved middle finger with part missing. Liddle parked in Broadmead, took a taxi with his ex, then returned two hours later to set the car alight to destroy evidence. He was arrested on October 10 after shunting a police car while trying to escape. DNA from a Red Bull can and car handle linked him to the vehicle.

Rhys Lewis, 33, of White Horse Court, Cwmtillery, Abertillery, stalked his ex-partner between November 2024 and April 2025 following the breakdown of their relationship due to his jealous and abusive behaviour. The stalking began after she reported an assault by him to the police. He left 278 abusive voice messages on her phone over four months, despite her changing her number multiple times, including threats like 'I'll watch your little world crumble' and insults such as 'simple fat c***' and 'f****** fat slob'. On March 25, 2025, he turned up while she was with a friend, attempted to open the car door, and later sent photos of himself holding a knife and knuckledusters captioned 'Can't wait to meet them', referring to her potential new partner. He followed her to Merthyr Tydfil, questioned her about being in another man's house, turned up at her home and in a shop, leaving her terrified. Police arrested him nearby after a call to her home, finding knives and knuckledusters at his residence and a flick knife in his car.

David Morgan, a 24-year-old from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, posted nine tweets in September and October 2024 on X (formerly Twitter) with intent to stir up racial hatred. The posts included images glorifying Nazi gas chambers, depicting black people as monkeys, antisemitic caricatures such as a hazmat-suited figure with a Nazi armband spraying gas towards a Jewish man, banknotes moving towards an oven captioned 'Only antisemites understand this photo', a man urinating on a menorah, a train track heading into a gas chamber, a monopoly board implying all black people should be in prison, and a Holocaust victim saying 'Gas me outside'. He advanced conspiracy theories blaming Jews for global economic instability and the 9/11 attacks, and black people for rising crime rates, claiming white people are being eradicated. Morgan had 127,800 followers on his main account and may have monetised his posts. He was reported to police by two Jewish users after X failed to remove the content despite complaints.

Jordan Lewis and his twin brother Keiron Lewis, both 26, savagely assaulted their friend the victim at his former partner's home near Pontypridd on August 13, 2025. The trio had been consuming alcohol and cocaine before arriving at the property at 11pm. When the victim intervened in an attack on the woman, the brothers turned on him, punching him repeatedly to the face, kicking and kneeing him, breaking the bathroom door off its hinges. They left him in a pool of blood with severe injuries including a broken nose, fractured cheek, bruising to face, eye sockets, and shoulder, and a head wound. The brothers told the woman they had killed him. Jordan wore steel toe-capped boots covered in the victim's blood.

Keiron Lewis and his twin brother Jordan Lewis, both 26, savagely assaulted their friend the victim at his former partner's home near Pontypridd on August 13, 2025. The trio had been consuming alcohol and cocaine before arriving at the property at 11pm. Keiron refused to leave despite children being present. When the victim intervened in an attack on the woman, the brothers turned on him, punching him repeatedly to the face, kicking and kneeing him, breaking the bathroom door off its hinges. They left him in a pool of blood with severe injuries including a broken nose, fractured cheek, bruising to face, eye sockets, and shoulder, and a head wound. The brothers told the woman they had killed him.

In July 2023, Llion Evans, using the online name 'Jimbo Jones', engaged in sexualised chats on the Kik app with a profile he believed was a 12-year-old schoolgirl from Newport, unaware it was an undercover police decoy. Conversations included discussions of 'naughty massages', 'messy massages', and wanting to shower with the child, though some exchanges were non-sexual. In October 2023, police raided his home in Elm Grove Road, Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, seizing devices. Analysis revealed over 350 indecent images of children (75 Category A, including abuse of a baby), prohibited images, extreme pornography, and evidence he shared images, including a Category A image, in a Kik group. He was arrested twice and released on bail during forensic examination.

Ashley Morris, 39, launched an unprovoked brutal attack on his 78-year-old neighbour the victim outside their homes in Brackla, Bridgend. After the victim parked his car following a shop visit, Morris approached him, told him to 'smile now', punched him to the floor, pinned him down, rained punches on his head and face, and kicked him repeatedly while he was down. The victim was left unconscious, covered in blood, and suffered appalling bruising, swelling, and three seizures in hospital. Morris then returned to his flat as if nothing happened.

Craig Dowding, 34, of Greene Close, Newport, committed two horrific assaults on his friend and neighbour the victim. On May 14, 2025, while socialising at the victim's home in Newport, Dowding lost his temper over the victim using his crack pipe. He punched the victim dozens of times, stabbed a butane gas canister with a knife, squirted it at the victim's lap, and set fire to his hands and face with a lighter, causing full thickness burns to 6.5% of his body including the right side of his forehead, right eye socket, right side of his mouth and cheek, nose, upper chest wall, and blisters on his left wrist, thumbs and fingers. The victim was treated at Grange University Hospital but discharged himself against medical advice. On June 9, 2025, at a mutual friend's home while watching a Wales football match, Dowding, after drinking, became abusive, threw a knife from a knife block at the victim, then hit him over the head with a large knife, causing a 15cm wound to the left side of his head, bruises to his left cheek, a broken nose, a fractured jaw, and loss of 1000ml of blood.

On August 23, 2025, Rory Butler, 37, of Seaward Avenue, Sandfields, Port Talbot, argued with his partner after going out for food and was asked to leave her home. He stole her silver Volkswagen Golf and drove erratically, including through cones in a contraflow system on the M4 eastbound. He crashed into the central reservation between junctions 37 and 38. Police found him intoxicated in the vehicle; he gave a false name, claimed to be 12 years old, and resisted arrest, attempting to headbutt officers. Breath tests showed 139 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml at roadside and 115 at the station, nearly four times the legal limit.