The Latest Breaking News from Swansea Crown Court

Woman stunned to get £1,000 'apology' designer bag after row to learn it was stolen

George Tetzlaff, from Swansea, Wales, stole the designer handbag in an attempt to apologise for a row with his girlfriend. But she soon found out the item had been stolen when police recovered it

Daily Mirror · Oct 5, 2022

The 'entrenched' paedophiles in Wales who repeatedly re-offend

Some continue to breach court orders and offend time and again

Wales Online · Sep 25, 2022

Drink driver told police her dog was behind the wheel when car crashed into bus stop

Melissa Jenkins Johanson, 47, reversed out of Ocean Café Bar and Restaurant in Pembrokeshire before driving down a footpath and crashing into a bus stop - then tried to blame her dog

Daily Mirror · Sep 23, 2022

Man jailed for biting boy in chest then 'pathetically' lying to avoid responsibility

Thomas Cockings was jailed for 15 months after pleading guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm having initially claimed he bit a young boy because he was having a seizure

Daily Mirror · Aug 18, 2022

Woman who took driving tests for more than 100 people jailed over scam

Circumventing driving test process ‘puts innocent road users at risk’, police say

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2022

Woman who posed as others to take more than 100 driving tests is jailed

Inderjeet Kaur, 29, admitted to having taken approximately 150 theory and practical driving tests on behalf of candidates between 2018 and 2020.

The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2022

Man goes on trial accused of distributing ‘racist and antisemitic’ podcasts

James Allchurch, also known as ‘Sven Longshanks’, is on trial at Swansea Crown Court.

The Independent UK · Jun 29, 2022

The faces and crimes of the deplorable rapists and sexual offenders who have been jailed in Wales this year

These men only represent the tip of the iceberg

Wales Online · Jun 26, 2022

Man filmed himself raping woman using victim's phone and tried to deny it

A judge told Cameron Hassan it was hard to think of a more degrading way to treat a woman after he recorded the ordeal on the victim's phone as he was found guilty of rape at Swansea Crown Court

Daily Mirror · Jun 23, 2022

Husband dies after being cleared of burning wife alive with boiling fat at chippy

Geoffrey Bran was accused of killing his wife Mavis who was burnt alive by 160 degree oil at their village chip shop in Hermon, Wales, but her husband claimed she slipped

Daily Mirror · Jun 16, 2022