Mold Crown Court Sentencing Results

Joshua Wren slapped and punched a woman to the head, poured the contents of a drink and an ashtray over her, and sent her threatening voice recordings. The court heard he had 25 previous convictions for 45 offences, including battery and actual bodily harm.

Jason Thomas subjected his former partner to abuse during a four-year relationship. He placed a tracking device in her car without her knowledge, went through her phone without permission, falsely accused her of having an affair, and called her derogatory names. After the relationship ended in June 2025, he punched the victim several times to the face and body, causing bruising, continued to contact her after she blocked his number, and later sent a photograph of a petrol canister with a threat to burn her.

On June 8 2025, around 7.45pm, a woman walking her dog on the coastal path in Conwy saw Barry Francis Lee sitting on a bench. He walked towards her, stood next to her making her uncomfortable, and she noticed he had his penis out and was holding it while smiling at her. She called him pathetic and he apologised. He was later identified on CCTV. Then at 9.30pm on December 6 2025, in the car park of Lidl superstore, Llandudno Junction, a woman in a car with another person saw Lee walk past her vehicle multiple times with his penis out, performing a sex act. She felt disgusted and sick. He was identified and arrested.

Between 16 and 27 March 2025, John Watton exchanged messages with a decoy Facebook profile 'Poppy' run by Stop UK, which was presented as a 10-year-old girl. Although he acknowledged she was 'too young', he sent sexually explicit messages, described sexual acts, asked for naked photographs, encouraged phone calls when she claimed to be in the bath, and sent an indecent image of himself. The conversation moved to WhatsApp. He was confronted by Stop UK on 27 March 2025 and arrested.

Toby Haslam, a 30-year-old staff member at a Welsh school, groomed a vulnerable schoolgirl by buying her multiple gifts and sending her sexual messages via social media. He abused his position of trust to sexually assault her at his home, including penetrative acts. The abuse was reported to police in 2024 after the victim confided in a schoolteacher following a summer break. Indecent images were found on his phone. He resided at Old Newcastle Road, Willaston.

Aaron Evans, 34, along with Summer Marl-Brock and David Brock, ambushed her ex-boyfriend in his car during a late-night meeting in Ewloe, causing a fractured jaw, bite marks and facial injuries.

David Brock, 38, along with his cousin Summer Marl-Brock and Aaron Evans, ambushed her ex-boyfriend in his car during a late-night meeting in Ewloe, causing a fractured jaw, bite marks and facial injuries.

Summer Marl-Brock, 21, lured her ex-boyfriend to a late-night meeting in Ewloe, where her cousin David Brock and Aaron Evans ambushed him in his car, causing a fractured jaw, bite marks and facial injuries.

Stuart Hampson, 49, of no fixed abode, engaged in a crime spree involving repeatedly stealing from a Sainsbury's store in Flint. He was arrested as a result of targeted policing efforts in partnership with the store under Operation Bastion, a North Wales Police initiative to tackle retail crime.

On the evening of Wednesday, September 3, 2025, Mark Canavan, who was disqualified from driving, was spotted by police in his VW Golf near Junction 31 of the A55 near Caerwys. He led officers on a 10-minute high-speed chase through country roads, reaching speeds over 100mph, overtaking vehicles, and crossing white lines, passing through Gwaenysgor. He abandoned the car in an alleyway, jumped a fence, and was later found at his flat in Maes Bryn Melyd, Rhyl, where he falsely claimed to have been at home having a cup of tea. The judge noted that miraculously no serious damage, injury, or death occurred. Canavan has 13 convictions for 28 offences, including prior dangerous driving and driving while disqualified in 2007 and 2008, taking a vehicle without consent, driving without insurance, and a 2025 disqualification for drug-influenced driving.

On May 4, 2025, Ian Sullivan drove a Jaguar erratically from Four Crosses near Menai Bridge towards Benllech on Anglesey, tailgating and beeping at another driver, entering the opposite lane, forcing a police officer to brake hard and take evasive action to avoid a head-on collision near Moelfre. He failed a roadside breath test with 175mg alcohol in 100ml blood. On December 16, 2025, in Llandudno, he turned from Gloddaeth Street into York Road, crashing into the victim's car, appeared staggering, and breath test showed 61 micrograms in 100ml breath. He was also driving whilst disqualified.

Karl Sturrs, previously convicted of using coercive or controlling behaviour, was subject to a ten-year restraining order from August 15, 2025, prohibiting contact with his partner until August 15, 2035. On January 9, 2026, police observed him with her at a garage forecourt in Gaerwen, Anglesey. The next day, officers attended her home, found him hiding in the attic, and she admitted letting him in as she still loved him.

On January 11, 2026, Kieran Everard, agitated and dancing, attacked the victim at a multiple occupancy support centre in Saltney Ferry, biting his arm during a struggle. Everard then retrieved a knife from a sink and attempted to force entry into the victim's room for over 30 minutes, causing the victim to fear for his life and barricade the door with a chair. Police found Everard intoxicated. In an earlier incident on December 11, 2025, at Glanrafon emergency bed centre in Queensferry, Everard aggressively demanded a cigarette from another victim, threatened to smash his head in, and later shouted threats of suicide after being asked to leave.

In late 2023, Christopher Jepson, 33, of Maes Glas, Rhos-on-Sea, Conwy, committed two counts of exposure against the same girl. In the first incident, he asked her to follow him, whispered 'Do you want a tenner?', and then lowered his trousers to expose himself. Later that month, he exposed himself again to the same girl. The girl reported the second incident to an adult, leading to his arrest. He denied the offences, claiming in the second incident he had simply brought out a soft toy.

Daniel Carroll put cash into the drug operation and used his home as a stash location for the Flintshire drug ring.

Miles Cross set up a business and sold a substance through an online discussion forum after joining the site in July 2024. Using a pseudonym, he posted that he had obtained paraphernalia for suicide by the chemical method and displayed a QR code linked to his bank account so people could order and pay directly. Cross received payments of £100 from four people and posted the substance to them. Two people took their own lives. When police searched his address in January 2025, they found tubs of the substance and other paraphernalia. Analysis of his devices linked him to the forum, social media profiles, and the bank account.

Brown, 33, of no fixed address, forced his way into a flat on Bath Street, Rhyl, by smashing the lock and handle on November 18, 2025, and strangled a male victim during a violent incident.