Swansea Crown Court Sentencing Results

Dylan Tapp repeatedly punched and kicked a homeless man in the head in an unprovoked street attack outside a shop in Aberystwyth in the early hours of June 10. The victim fell to the ground and lost consciousness after being pulled to his feet and punched again. He suffered bruising and swelling to his face and was taken to hospital complaining of dizziness. Tapp had recently been released on licence from a 40-month prison sentence for inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent and was recalled to prison following his arrest.

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 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.

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.

Ian Rimmer deleted over 300 videos and images from his phone, some with names of children's programmes, and lied to police about his online activities involving child abuse material.

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.

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.

Kelly Vick committed a number of shoplifting offences. She stole two sandwiches and two bags of crisps from B&M in Cardiff on 19 May, and later stole food and several AU vodka cans from Asda in Coryton. On 13 July she stole £928 of alcohol from Tesco in Haverfordwest and £935 of alcohol from Tesco in Ammanford with a co-defendant. The thefts involved planning, with bags lined with tin foil, and sometimes paying for only some items or none. She was arrested on 13 July in Ammanford. The court heard that the goods she stole were worth approximately £1900.

Katie Kelshaw chased people through the streets near a busy Swansea railway station while armed with a kitchen knife with an eight-inch blade on 11 May. She was arrested the same day after further disorder; in custody she racially abused a police officer and was found with a forged £20 note and three bank cards hidden in her bra. A person whose card was found in her possession reported losing consciousness after accepting a drink and a cigarette in the city centre and later discovering the card missing. In a second incident, Kelshaw racially abused staff and spat at people at a takeaway, then ran from officers and spat at and racially abused another officer during arrest. The judge remarked that the people of Swansea were fed up with her offending and said she became truculent and difficult under the influence of drink or drugs.

Joshua Wells carried out a series of shoplifting offences across Wales and the south west of England over six weeks. He stole alcohol from Tesco stores in Haverfordwest, Ammanford, Barry and Pontardulais, and goods from Asda stores in Barry and Coryton. The thefts included alcohol worth £415, £889 and £416 from Tesco Haverfordwest on 3, 20 and 29 June, and £248.50 of alcohol from Tesco Ammanford on 3 June. On 13 July he stole £928 of alcohol from Tesco Haverfordwest and £935 from Tesco Ammanford with a co-defendant. The thefts involved planning, with bags lined with tin foil, and sometimes paying for only some items or none. He was arrested on 13 July in Ammanford. He also committed shoplifting incidents in Devon and Cornwall.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On Sunday, October 16, 2022, police attended a flat in Milford Haven after reports of smoke billowing from the property. Jenkins' partner reported he had assaulted her in a violent argument shortly before the blaze. An investigation found Jenkins had deliberately started fires, setting fire to the oven and the kitchen floor. The entire flat suffered heavy smoke damage. A one-year-old child was in the flat at the time, and valuables including a TV were deliberately smashed. Jenkins was arrested the following day and charged with arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered, assault by beating, and criminal damage.

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.