Here is our monthly round-up of the criminals who have been locked up for some of the most serious crimes in Wales over the past month. They include the horrific murder of a pensioner by her own son-in-law. Mari O'Flynn was found dead at her Newport home and was attacked because she refused to hand over a cigarette.

Another sentenced in November was van driver Simon Draper who was accessing Facebook and Instagram on his mobile moments before ploughing into and killing an off-duty police sergeant as she cycled back home. "Monstrous" couple David and Kim Crapper were also jailed after a court heard how they raped and sexually abused a young girl despite her crying and protestations.

Here are the faces of the criminals locked up for some of the most serious crimes in November.

Simon Parks

In a shocking case, Parks was sentenced to life for killing and sexually assaulting his mother-in-law after she refused to give him cigarettes. He later told a neighbour the victim was "a horrible b******" who had wound him up.

The 52-year-old brutally killed Mari O'Flynn who was found dead at her home in Newport at around 1.55pm on May 24. The emergency services had been called to the house at Leach Road, in Bettws, where Mrs O'Flynn's body was discovered, partially unclothed, with bruises on her face and neck. Read the full sentencing here.

Simon Draper

Simon Draper

The van driver who used his phone on a busy dual carriageway seconds before knocking down and killing a cyclist was jailed for five years last month.

Draper was accessing Facebook and Instagram on his mobile moments before ploughing into off-duty police sergeant Lynwen Thomas as she cycled back to her home in Carmarthen. The 42-year-old dad-of-four had accepted causing the crash but claimed he was not driving dangerously - and insisted that it was his 13-month-old son who had been on his phone and accessing apps at the time of the crash.

David and Kim Crapper

David and Kim Crapper, of Barry, raped and sexually abused a young girl.

The "monstrous" couple raped and sexually abused a young girl despite her crying and protestations. They convinced her their treatment of her was "normal" and repeatedly took advantage of her.

The pair, of Barry, reached levels of "depravity" in their abuse of the child, who is not named for legal reasons. The offences came to light when the victim told a friend about the husband and wife's behaviour and they were arrested by police. Sentencing the pair, Judge David Wynn Morgan said: "It's hard to think of a more monstrous (offence)."

Saif Hussain

Saif Hussain, who was jailed at Cardiff Crown Court for rape and assault by penetration

A young girl was forced to call the police as Hussain raped her mother after forcing his way into the family home. Hussain didn’t care that the woman’s daughter was in the house in Newport while he raped the terrified mother in the living room and shouted abuse at her.

Hussain, who bizarrely sacked his own counsel and repeatedly shouted incoherently at Judge Michael Fitton during his sentencing hearing, was found guilty of rape and assault by penetration by a jury in October. He also shouted from the dock at Roger Griffiths, prosecuting, that the details of the case were “a load of f****** bull****” before Judge Fitton ordered him to “sit down and be quiet”. Read the full sentencing here.

Sabina Khanom

The 27-year-old had to be dragged away as she tried to run back into her burning flat to get baby clothes just before it exploded. She was seen setting fire to a sofa in the property moments earlier.

Khanom was seen setting fire to bits of tissue which she threw on the sofa of her Newport flat before pouring a flammable liquid on it. Footage of the fire was shown to a sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court, which showed panicked residents running in fear of being caught by the explosion.

Kyle Gregory

Kyle Gregory

The young drug dealer was caught with almost 200 wraps of crack cocaine hidden in rubber gloves after being tracked down by a police dog.

Gregory was already on a suspended sentence for dealing coke and heroin when he resumed peddling Class A drugs. He was caught - for the second time - after the stolen car he was riding in was involved in a police pursuit which ended with a head-on crash and the defendant running away.

Lydia Chadwick


She was found with thousands of 'harrowing' child abuse images and then pretended to be mute when she appeared in court. However, despite claiming she suffered from a medical condition that rendered her incapable of speaking, Lydia Chadwick later went on to talk in order to defend herself before a jury.

The 36-year-old, who has links to Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, had been found to possess more than 2,000 indecent images of children after police executed a warrant at her home address in Ulverston, Cumbria. Officers seized mobile phones and a laptop.

Ian Maclean

Ian Maclean

The convicted rapist with derogatory attitudes about females preyed on a lone woman and subjected her to a terrifying ordeal in her own home.

Maclean forced his way into his victim's house after first establishing she was on her own before throttling her. The victim later said she thought the intruder was going to rape her, and she said he seemed to enjoy how scared she was. Swansea Crown Court heard Maclean had more than 120 previous offences on his record including assaults, burglaries, and a "particularly horrific" rape of a young woman who he dragged from her bed after breaking into her house.

Jodie Gleed

She hit her friend over the head with a meat cleaver over a row about money, in an attack which has left the victim feeling like "a walking freak show." Swansea Crown Court heard how Caroline Jones had loaned Gleed £140 and a mobile phone.

The court heard they had been friends for years and had a good relationship, but Gleed did not return the money or the phone, despite telling her she would. At around midnight on Wednesday, October 5, Miss Jones walked to Gleed's home and knocked on the front door, which was answered within seconds. Gleed was holding a meat cleaver, and shouted: "I'm going to f****** kill you."

Wayne Jones

Wayne Jones

The "immature and insecure" bodybuilder hid tracking devices on an ex-partner's car so he could monitor her movements. When his actions were discovered, Jones bombarded his former girlfriend with messages and shouted through her letterbox - and demanded his tracker back.

Jones - who has a history of assaulting and abusing partners - said he was not proud of his past behaviour which he put down to steroid abuse linked to his bodybuilding hobby. A judge described the 48-year-old grandfather as an "immature and insecure" man.

Joanne Hughes


The fraudulent accountant took £280,000 from three companies she was working for, bankrupting one of them and leaving 28 people unemployed.

Hughes, who runs her own accountancy firm, preyed on the vulnerability of the company owners who had little knowledge of accounts and repeatedly kept money owed to the then HMRC for herself.

Christopher Raisis

A man suffered a fractured cheekbone among other injuries following a dispute between neighbours. Raisis punched Luke Stephens several times and pushed another neighbour, Abbie Mackie, at his block of flats.

William Bebb, prosecuting, told the court how on August 13 this year Luke Stephens, who lived below Raisis, heard Raisis and Ms Mackie in a heated discussion that morning. Later that afternoon Mr Stephens went for a walk with Ms Mackie and on returning to the block found Raisis waiting for them with a metal garden chair in his hands.

Regan Campbell

The “cowardly and cynical” father-of-two used the home of his ex-partner and his children to stash cocaine with a street value of £9,000. Campbell, from Newport, used Stevie Fletcher’s home for at least three months because he didn’t think officers would look there. Read the full sentencing here.

Jacob Curley

Jacob Curley
Jacob Curley


The 32-year-old who raped a 15-year-old girl was jailed for 12 years this month. Cardiff Crown Court heard that he had "turned her life upside-down". Curley was found guilty of rape by a jury following a trial and was also found guilty of sexual assault

Talha Chaudry

Talha Chaudry

The teenage drug dealer was caught after police saw him acting suspiciously in the doorway of a café. Chaudry had been sent to Swansea by a Manchester drugs gang to peddle cocaine, and was staying in a city centre hotel paying for the room daily in cash. After being arrested and charged the defendant went on the run and was at large for some 10 months.

Locking up the defendant, a judge said places such as Swansea were being "plagued" by drug dealers working on behalf of organised crime groups from cities such as Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham.

James Perry

James Perry

The terrifying moment a man armed himself with a knife and loomed over a defenceless police officer as she lay on the floor was caught on camera. You can see it here.

Cops had been called to the house Perry shared with his grandmother following concerns of a domestic disturbance. When told he had to leave the premises the defendant turned his anger on the two PCs, grabbing one officer and lunging at her with a knife before a second officer intervened and confronted him with a Taser.

Robert John Rixon

The school swimming teacher carried out a long-standing "campaign of sexual abuse" on five young girls he taught, leaving them with deep-rooted psychological trauma. Over a 16-year period, Rixon sexually abused his victims who were as young as 11. Swansea Crown Court heard that Rixon abused the girls at a swimming and lifeguarding club he ran at a school. The 74-year-old of Nottage, Porthcawl, was sentenced last month.

Ashton Jones Ryan Foyle and Dylan Griffiths

Ashton Jones (left) Ryan Foyle and Dylan Griffiths

The three thugs chased and viciously attacked a random passer-by on a busy shopping street in the middle of the afternoon before the victim was slashed with a hunting knife.

At one stage the man sought refuge in a shop - but the shopkeeper refused his pleas for help and put him back on the street to take his chances with his knife-wielding assailants. Two of the attackers then went home to change their clothes before returning to the pub just yards from the incident where they had been drinking before the assault.

Dafydd Merkel

The drunk thug punched a door off its hinges as his partner and her children hid in her bedroom before trashing her house and smashing a mirror. He went on to put a hole in her car windscreen and threatened to smash up her shop. The 36-year-old became angry after coming home intoxicated after watching a rugby match on February 26 and ignored his partner's pleas for him to sleep at his mother's house.

Martin Smith

He was one of two heroin dealers who were caught red-handed when police stopped them in their car after leaving a house in Swansea.

They drove away in a Nissan Juke, which was then stopped by officers. Smith was found in possession of eight wraps of heroin. A property in Townhill was searched and police found 70 wraps of heroin, valued at more than £8,000. Smith's phone was found to contain a number of drug-related messages. Read the sentencing here.

Faisel Ahmed, Mustafa Saiid and Shuaib Issak

Faisel Ahmed (l), Shuaib Issak and Mustafa Saiid (r) were jailed for drug offences


The three young men were unmasked as part of an organised crime gang trafficking large amounts of class A drugs from Manchester to Aberystwyth.

Officers believed the gang sending the couriers across the border was involved in supplying huge quantities of drugs to the Ceredigion area. One of the couriers caught heading for the university town had dozens of wraps of cocaine hidden in his anus, a technique known as "plugging".

John Coles

John Coles

He burgled a house and confronted the lone woman who lived there on the day he should have been in court in connection with other offences. An intoxicated Coles walked into the property in the middle of the day while the victim was upstairs busy painting and decorating her home. Swansea Crown Court heard the woman had been left so upset by what happened she was considering selling the house and moving.

Joseph Parry

He spat at a police officer and threw a bottle at a horse during the Bristol Riot. Parry, from Llanelli, was also part of a group who attempted to pull the door off a mobile police station.

He appeared in Bristol Crown Court on Monday, and was sentenced after pleading guilty to a charge of violent disorder. The 23-year-old was given a 20-month custody sentence following his guilty plea. He is the 21st person to be jailed following the riot.

Marcus Davies

Marcus Davies

The cocaine dealer kept his supplies of the drug in empty paracetamol packets in his flat.

Davies was arrested on a Neath street by police officers who had linked a suspected drugs phone line to him. When they searched his home they found a stash of the Class A drug hidden in painkiller boxes along with a quantity of cannabis and more than £1,200 in cash. He later told officers he had turned to supplying drugs because he could not find a job.

Asif Iqbal

Asif Iqbal


The mobile hairdresser pulled over by police was found to have 1.3kg of cannabis and thousands of pounds in cash in his Mercedes. Iqbal told the officers the £4,000 in cash also found in his vehicle was payment for a dog.

Swansea Crown Court heard that two months after being arrested and then released under investigation the 37-year-old was found with another stash of cannabis and cash.

Monty Lee

He led police on a chase through Cardiff before crashing into bushes after going the wrong way around a roundabout and then attempting to flee the scene. When Lee was eventually caught by police constable Richard Harrison it was discovered he was also driving without insurance and whilst disqualified.

Christopher Westacott

The 33-year-old lured a female delivery driver towards him before punching her to the head and taking off with the food she was carrying. Westacott was found guilty of the robbery of the defenceless woman in Newport following a jury trial.

The woman, who was working for a private delivery company at the time, said she “lives in constant fear” since the incident on the evening of March 22. Nik Strobl, prosecuting, read the victim’s statement to the court.

Brandon Brock

Brandon Brock

The one-time promising rugby player armed with a knife targeted a man who had just withdrawn money from a cash machine.

Brock was part of a gang of youngsters who approached the man in the street before trying to snatch the money and throwing punches and dragging his victim to the ground. The 19-year-old then produced a knife before assaulting a good Samaritan who intervened in the attempted robbery and assaulting a police officer who was arresting him.

Kian Jackson

Kian Jackson

A pizza shop owner was threatened with a large knife after finding two teenagers burgling his business. The teen intruders had gone into the Port Talbot business through an open rear door and entered a number of rooms, including some on the upper floors, before confronting the boss. Read more here.

Lewis Liddell

Lewis Liddell

A taxi driver who was knocked out by a drunken passenger and suffered serious head injuries said the attack had destroyed his life.

Liddell assaulted the cabbie after drinking heavily and taking cocaine for the first time. After an argument with the taxi driver outside the cab he delivered a powerful punch which sent his victim crashing to the floor. The cabbie has been left unable to work and said he could not remember his own granddaughter.

Phillip Hanlon

The "coward" and "bully" poured boiling water over his partner from a kettle and punched her in the head when she accidentally kicked him. He also elbowed her in the face during a separate assault.

The 43-year-old, of Cardiff, made his girlfriend's life a misery by subjecting her to frequent physical and verbal abuse. The couple had been in a relationship for three years when the abuse came to ahead and the victim reported matters to police. Read the full sentencing here.

Huw Thomas


The pensioner sexually assaulted a woman while she was asleep after he had taken cocaine and cannabis. The woman woke to find herself naked and the man touching her.

The 72-year-old, of Cardiff, was found guilty of sexual assault by penetration and sexual assault following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court. The court heard he attended a house in Penarth in 2020, where he drank alcohol and took drugs. He entered a bedroom where the victim, a young woman, was lying in bed and went on to sexually assault her. Read the sentencing here.

Brian Malam

Brian Malam

A vulnerable woman living in a care home had to wear clothes from deceased residents after the person in charge of her finances stole her money.

Malam had power of attorney over his friend Margaret Wright's money but spent years helping himself to tens of thousands of pounds of her savings. Mrs Wright is better known by her professional name Meg Wynn Owen under which she featured in a host of popular TV shows and films including Love Actually, Doctor Who, Under Milk Wood, Pride and Prejudice, and Upstairs Downstairs.

Mark Buchanan

Mark Buchanan was jailed for 16 years


The organised crime group member was wearing a delivery company uniform and driving a specially-adapted vehicle to smuggle drugs into Wales when he was caught on one of the UK's busiest motorways. Buchanan was jailed at Cardiff Crown Court for 16 years after pleading guilty to his part in a large-scale drugs network. Read the sentencing here.

Lee Thomas

The cannabis dealer was caught after his phone was seized by police and messages relating to drug dealing were discovered. He was said to have played a "significant role" and was expected to be making a steady profit. The 30-year-old, of Newport, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of class B drugs. He was found not guilty of dealing class A drugs following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court.

Ashley Watson

Ashley Watson

The former soldier has been jailed for breaking a man's jaw in a brutal bar assault. Watson lost his temper in a Port Talbot pub, punching a stranger in the face and causing a double fracture which required the victim to have metal plates and 12 screws fitted in his jaw. The 24-year-old defendant has a previous conviction for violence following an assault on a fellow soldier - which earned him a period of military detention.

Jahidol Kamaj

Jahidol Kamaj

The drug-dealing law graduate was caught red-handed with a stash of cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, ketamine and cannabis. Undercover police saw Kamaj acting suspiciously in his car outside a Swansea supermarket and swooped on the vehicle, recovering the five different drugs along with hundreds of pounds in cash and a phone full of incriminating messages, some of which had been received just minutes before his arrest.

Jan Kandrac

Jan Kandrac

The burglar, who raided a vulnerable man's flat, returned to the scene of the crime and asked for his bank card and drugs back. Kandrac had sneaked into the man's flat while he slept on the sofa and stole his TV and other items - but he left his tobacco tin and debit card behind. The burglar pawned the man's telly before returning to the flat to ask for his possessions back - an act a judge described as showing "barefaced cheek".

Robert Wheeler

The 76-year-old, from Maesydderwen, Llandissilio, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, was jailed for 12 and a half years after admitting abusing a young boy and girl more than 30 years ago. You can read more about the case here. Dyfed-Powys Police did not provide a custody photograph of the defendant.

Morgan Watson

The defendant threatened a friend with a broken bottle and struck him with a hammer when the man refused to hand over his prescription medication. Watson later contacted police and told them he had been doing "really bad stuff". He was jailed for 15 months.

Kerry Hearne

Convicted bank robber Kerry Hearne led police on a high-speed chase because he didn't want to get arrested and miss his mother's funeral the next day. The 32-year-old, who has 22 previous convictions, was jailed for 50 months. Read more about the case here.

Richard Wyn Lewis

A “serial fraudster” was jailed for six years after conning more than £200,000 from a pensioner who was later murdered in a crossbow shooting in an unrelated incident. Richard Wyn Lewis befriended Gerald Corrigan, 74, and persuaded the retired lecturer and his partner Marie Bailey to hand over money they believed was related to property development, land sales and horses. Mr Corrigan was later fatally shot with a crossbow outside his home in a remote part of Anglesey in April, 2019. Get the full story here.

Ashlee Omar

The knife-wielding teenager walked into a shop in Cardiff and threatened to stab a former friend before chasing him down the street as he rode off on a bike. He was detained for 12 months after he admitted affray and threatening a person with a knife.

Marcus Bevan and Marcus Murphy

The pair were caught red-handed trashing a rugby club in the early hours of the morning though due to their level of intoxication they can remember little of what happened. Between them, the defendants have previous convictions for more than 240 offences. Bevan was sentenced to a total of three years and eight months in prison while Murphy was jailed for two and a half years. Get the full story here.

Aiden Price and Patrick McNulty

Aiden Price (left) and Patrick McNulty (right) set fire to a woman's gate outside her home in Peterston super Ely after being offered money by her ex partner

The teenage duo set fire to a woman's gate outside her home after being offered money by her ex-partner. One of them poured petrol onto the gate before setting it alight, their sentencing was told. Price was sentenced to 32 months in jail while McNulty was sentenced to 27 months detention in a young offenders' institute.

Michael Turner

Michael Turner, 52, trashed a hotel room in Porthcawl while under the influence of drugs


A drugged-up grandfather caused £48,000 worth of damage to a hotel. The hotel owner found him naked with the shower running after guests complained of leaking water. Turner was sentenced to a total of 14 and a half months in prison. Read the full story here.

Jaryd Warlow


A man was punched in the face, kicked in the testicles, and called an "English b******" in a vicious and unprovoked street assault carried out by a total stranger. Jaryd Warlow punched his victim to the floor and repeatedly kicked him between the legs. Despite the violence a judge was told letters written to the court from friends of the defendant showed another side to his character. He was sentenced to 28 months in jail.

Corina Rezvumes


She was caught shoplifting in Primark in Cardiff in October, 2016 but, having been charged, she failed to attend court and absconded to her home country of Romania. She was tracked down earlier this year when she was once again caught stealing in the Welsh capital. She's now been jailed for eight months.

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