Swansea Crown Court Sentencing Results

Luke Rogers, 40, of Wolfscastle, a registered sex offender previously convicted at Maidstone Crown Court for sexual activity with a teenage girl and subject to a sexual harm prevention order until 2031, applied for a job in February by lying to his employer that he had never been in trouble with the police for anything 'dodgy' and claiming a full driving licence despite only having a provisional one with six penalty points. He drove the company van on February 24 and 25 and was briefly left unsupervised with his employer's child. While driving with his boss, he ranted about paedophiles getting away with everything, prompting the employer to search his name online, uncover his past, dismiss him, and report to police. Rogers was arrested on March 12.

Louis Davids-Watson admitted three counts of making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children. The material included category A, category B and category C imagery. The offending took place in Castlemartin on 9 July. He was given a suspended prison term, placed under supervision for two years, ordered to complete a drug rehabilitation programme, and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.

On October 23, 2025, in the early hours, Louise Blackwell, after drinking half a bottle of spirits and beer, deliberately drove her car into her friend on Margam Road in Port Talbot during an argument, throwing him 30ft. She left him gravely injured with facial injuries, double leg-break requiring metal rod, permanent limp, facial scarring, and deteriorating vision. She then tried to cover tracks by lying to her daughter about hitting an animal and getting car repaired. Charged with attempted murder (not guilty verdict entered) and convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent.

Louise Harris, a carer, was supposed to be looking after an 81-year-old dementia patient as a favour before a formal care package was put in place. She agreed to a four-hour trial shift at the victim's family home in February. After the victim accidentally pressed a Lifeline button, Harris became enraged, screamed abuse at her, called her a horrible cow, demanded to know where her money was while pressing on her chest, and later waved a large kitchen knife around while causing damage in the property. The victim's daughter saw the events on CCTV and called police, who broke down the door and found Harris slumped on the floor.

On December 28, 2025, Lewis Thompson-Gill assaulted a woman in Tenby, causing injuries serious enough to justify a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm. He was convicted by a jury after pleading not guilty. At the time of the offence, he was already serving a suspended prison sentence imposed by Worcester Magistrates' Court on May 6, 2025 for two breaches of a non-molestation order.

Allowed disposal of controlled waste including rotting household waste, shredded plastics, oily vehicle parts, hazardous clinical waste, and asbestos at Old Rheola Works, Resolven, owned by his company R M Rees Contractors Ltd, adjacent to Rheola House. Kept tally of lorries and received tipping fees. Waste buried up to four metres deep.

Mahad Yusuf, 21, from Edmonton, north London, and Fesal Mahamud, 20, from Enfield, trafficked a 19-year-old woman to South Wales, forcing her to transport and sell Class A drugs - crack cocaine and heroin. The victim was lured via social media, driven to South Wales, had her phone smashed, was held captive for five days, beaten, and forced to store drugs in her body. The gang operated a county line from London to Swansea.

Allowed disposal of huge volumes of oily trommel fines waste from Birmingham scrapyards at Pentwyn Farm, Skewen, buried up to 11 metres deep. No environmental permits in place. Waste likely hazardous and posed risk to environment.

Euwyn Draper, a registered sex offender subject to a sexual harm prevention order, used public library computers to exchange indecent images of children and discuss sexual abuse with another individual. Despite being prohibited from holding undisclosed social media accounts, he secretly maintained profiles on X, Instagram, Snapchat, and BlueSky. The breaches were discovered on 5 May 2026 during a routine meeting with his offender manager, leading to a police inspection of his library internet activity where explicit conversations and images were found.

Ethan Smith ran an illegal vapes business from shops in Llanelli and Swansea, and an online operation based at Bynea Industrial Estate. After Swansea Council trading standards officers made a test purchase of an illegal vape from his Oxford Street, Swansea shop, officers seized over 1,100 vapes, but Smith restocked and continued trading the next day. He made an estimated £300,000. He was jailed in May 2024. Separately, following a proceeds of crime investigation, Smith and his friend Marshall Hayes lied about the ownership of a £37,000 BMW M Sport Competition. Though the car was registered to a person in Scotland, the prosecution believed Smith owned it. Smith and Hayes produced a fake invoice from a Leeds garage and gave false testimony on oath in a hearing in April 2025, claiming Hayes had bought the car. Investigators proved the invoice was forged, leading to Smith's conviction for perverting the course of justice. Smith was sentenced to 12 months in prison in September 2025. A confiscation order for £250,000 was later made, with a 30-month default period of imprisonment.

Ethan-Lee Sebastian-Jones subjected his girlfriend to a regime of abusive and coercive behaviour, including isolating her from friends, tracking her movements, routinely pinching, pushing and slapping her, and grabbing her by the throat. He also walked around the house carrying a pellet gun to intimidate her and held the weapon to her head. The court heard the abuse left the victim feeling like a broken shell.

Caught tending a cannabis crop worth an estimated £88,000 at a property in Hanover Street, Uplands, just 10 days after being smuggled into the UK in a lorry from France. Officers found 205 plants during a raid on 23 March.

On November 24, 2019, David Dallimore crashed his silver Toyota into a parked Toyota Aygo on Heol Cadifor in Penlan, Swansea, pushing it into a wall. He fled the scene. When questioned by police he falsely named the victim (his partner's cousin, who was on licence after release from prison) as the driver. The victim was arrested and at risk of recall to prison. Dallimore later confessed at the police station. He was sentenced on or around 12 March 2020.

Knowingly allowed the disposal of controlled waste without an environmental permit at sites in Resolven and Skewen. Transported large volumes of municipal waste from Swansea and Carmarthen areas, refuse derived fuel, oily scrapyard waste from Birmingham to Pentwyn Farm, Skewen, and buried waste at Old Rheola Works, Resolven. Investigation began spring 2016.

Corey Roberts sent threatening text messages to the sister-in-law of the woman assaulted by his brother, abusing her and her family in an effort to deter the complainant from giving evidence. The intimidation caused the trial of his brother to collapse and led to a fresh investigation. He admitted witness intimidation. He had previous convictions and was already under a suspended sentence when he sent the messages, and further suspended sentences for weapons matters followed before sentencing.

Craig Henton was investigated by the National Crime Agency after information indicated that a user of an encrypted messaging application had discussed imminent plans to commit a sexual offence against a five-year-old child. He was traced to an address in Port Talbot, and examination of his digital devices uncovered thousands of indecent images and videos of children, including Category A material. Investigators also examined hundreds of online conversations in which child sexual abuse was discussed and identified a child whom Henton claimed to have previously assaulted. He pleaded guilty to 18 offences.

Damian Douglas' BMW was caught speeding twice on the same day on 30 October 2018 while travelling from the west Midlands to Wales. He named his recently deceased friend the victim as the driver on the police forms to avoid penalty points. He maintained the lie despite police investigations disproving it, including mobile phone tracking and ANPR evidence. The deception caused additional stress to the deceased's family.

Damien Jones subjected a young girl to repeated rapes and sexual assaults over several years between 2013 and 2021, as well as inciting her to engage in sexual activity. The victim reported the abuse and was praised by police for her bravery.

On April 28, 2024, Daniel Rogers and his partner were staying at an Airbnb in the Neath area after drinking. A verbal row escalated, with Rogers becoming aggressive, screaming in her face, grabbing her, throwing her onto the bed, and strangling her with both hands around her throat until she lost consciousness and could not breathe. She initially claimed consensual sexual activity but later disclosed the truth after another incident in August 2024. Recorder Greg Bull KC described his record for violence as appalling and noted strangulation is not permitted even with consent.

David Lewis, 42, contacted what he believed was a 12-year-old girl on Snapchat; the account was a police decoy. He claimed to be 20, asked the child to go to a toilet and photograph herself with her top open, and during a video call exposed himself and masturbated. He was on bail at the time for possession of indecent images and in breach of a condition barring unsupervised contact with children. Forensic examination found 263 Category A, 71 Category B and 51 Category C indecent images of children on his devices, mostly moving images, and he had sent a Category A image to another Telegram user.

On 13 March 2025, David Nigel Dallimore was invited to the home of the victim in Swansea where they drank and had sex. The next day he bombarded her with messages, arrived at her Manselton home demanding to know who was inside, and later returned armed with a chef’s knife. He threatened a second victim, attempted to force him to place his hands on the worktop to be stabbed, slapped him, claimed he had served time for murder and had access to firearms, then forced the second victim to drive him away in a van. Armed police stopped the vehicle. Dallimore has prior convictions including for perverting the course of justice.

David Smith pursued his former partner in his car, forced her off the road while armed with a knife, and later set fire to her garage. Following the breakdown of the relationship around the turn of 2026 he repeatedly visited her home and bombarded her with messages and calls. On 2 March 2026 he arrived at her home with a knife, chased her when she tried to leave by car, overtook and blocked her, then approached her vehicle while brandishing the blade. The victim reversed into a ditch and escaped to a police station with a passing motorist. All four tyres of her abandoned vehicle had been slashed. Smith sent taunting messages about the garage; residents saw smoke and saw him emerging from the building carrying a knife. He was arrested by armed police on a mountain track above Blaengwynfi.

Isa Ayan was caught taking upskirting photographs of schoolgirls in Carmarthenshire. On 10 February 2026, staff at a shop in Carmarthen reported a man acting suspiciously and attempting to take a picture under a schoolgirl's skirt. Ayan was identified through CCTV and arrested; digital forensic enquiries found he had taken images of schoolgirls aged between 13 and 14 from the Carmarthen area.

Jamie Lee Lewis subjected his father to a sustained campaign of threats and abuse, including vowing to torture him and place a firearm in his mouth, in breach of a five-year restraining order imposed in December 2022. He posted false allegations online, made threatening voicemails and Facebook messages, and also stole a bottle of wine from a convenience store in Swansea in March. Lewis was arrested on April 8 after his father discovered the social media posts.

Jamie Gerald Paul Nugent-Squires, 40, was already banned from unsupervised contact with children under a sexual harm prevention order when he began messaging a decoy account he believed to be a 14-year-old boy on Snapchat in April 2026. The contact moved to WhatsApp, where he asked whether the 'boy' was gay, said he would like a boyfriend like him, offered to buy poppers, and sent photographs of himself. He arranged to meet in Neath town centre and was arrested outside a shop on 16 April 2026. After his arrest he became irate and cracked a police laptop screen. The sentencing also dealt with offences committed in October 2025 at Cardiff Central station, where he racially abused a security guard and threatened a female transport worker. He had 21 previous convictions covering 26 offences, including a 2022 prison sentence of 42 months for incidents involving vulnerable teenagers. The judge found he was highly sexually preoccupied and that a standard prison term would not adequately protect the public.

Joshua Hayman, 33, was involved in bribery at Bessemer Close Commercial Recycling Centre, exploiting position to deprive Cardiff Council of income through misrepresented waste amounts, causing £417,000 losses. Part of South Wales Police investigation under Bribery Act starting 2017 after whistleblower. Cash seized from home.

On 6 December 2025, Joseph Cullen stabbed the victim twice in the back with a large knife outside St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Swansea. The victim fled but was chased by Cullen. The attack followed a street argument between the victim and a witness, which arose after the victim failed to retrieve stolen belongings for the witness. Cullen and the witness were later arrested. Cullen has eight previous convictions covering 66 offences, including assault and weapons possession.