Frankie Winters woke with a sense of dread. "Oh my God," he remembers thinking. "What the hell have I done?"
Crushing regret in the mornings became a familiar feeling for Frankie last year when he got into a habit of spending nights spraying graffiti in Abergavenny town centre. The 25-year-old eventually landed in court, where he admitted 17 counts of criminal damage and was ordered to pay £2,500 in compensation.
But this is not just a story of vandalism. While some in Abergavenny cheered the former soldier's prosecution, many others praised the colourful street art he brought to the town. Frankie says he "deeply" regrets the tagging which led to his court case and suspended prison sentence — but he is proud of his underpass murals, which have won hundreds of admirers on local social media. Support flooded in this week after pictures of his work were shared on Facebook, with one comment dubbing Frankie the "Aber Banksy".
