These criminals were all convicted of serious offences and sent to jail in Wales over last month.
Keith Hughes
The man who strangled his former fiancée Stacey Gwilliam then tried to hide her unconscious body in a shallow grave at a Welsh beauty spot was jailed for life.
Judge Paul Thomas QC, sentencing painter and decorator Keith Hughes, 39, at Swansea Crown Court said because of his “volcanic temper” it would be a long time before he was actually freed.
He recommended Hughes, who was convicted by a jury for attempted murder, serve eight and a half years before he can apply for release.
David Dunn and Stephen Richardson
The pair were jailed after being found guilty of killing Darran Almond at a Pontypridd B&B. Dunn was jealous of love rival Darran, who was battered to death. He was found guilty of his murder and was jailed for life. Richardson was found guilty of manslaughter and was jailed for 14 years.
Adam Pratt
The 26-year-old was the one who ended up behind bars after he tried to bribe a witness to stop his girlfriend being jailed. Adam Pratt offered the witness £700 to stop her from testifying against his long-term partner.
Lee Rees
The hacker posed as 13-year-old girls in internet chat rooms to lure men into exposing themselves online before threatening to expose them as paedophiles. The 47-year-old, from Marlborough Road in Roath, Cardiff, made around £40,000 after starting a sophisticated ‘paedo hunting’ scam.
Jacob Marriott, Rachael Heron and Dennis Taylor
The three were jailed for what was described in court as a "brutal" and "cowardly" attack on a police officer in Cardiff. The court heard how the defendants attacked Sgt Dowler, of South Wales Police, in Cragside Close, in St Mellons, Cardiff, on July 31, when he tried to detain Taylor after the defendant ran away from him.
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Barry Gilbert, Royston Tucker, Stephen Llewellyn and Dean Roberts
The four Swansea men were jailed after a police anti-drugs operation uncovered more than £500,000 worth of amphetamines, a quantity of cash and up to £27,000 worth of cocaine hidden in a safe.
Swansea Crown Court heard Operation Raptor began when a bag containing nearly a kilo of amphetamine paste was discovered in the city earlier this year.
Catherine Cowdry
Cowdry smuggled drugs into Cardiff Prison in her bra. She claimed she had been threatened to do it by a man who came up to her outside a Spar shop. She was jailed for six months.
Lee Glasgow
The drug dealer, from Potter Street, Newport, was jailed for three years at Newport Crown Court for drug dealing and knife possession. The 40-year-old committed his first offence when he was 11.
Rayan Soultan
The street robber was jailed for two years and eight months after he ripped a £5,000 Rolex watch from his victim's arm in Cardiff city centre.
Tyrone Evans
Evans was described as being a danger to women when he was jailed for 12 years at the start of the month. The 42-year-old who formerly lived in the Pontypool area, had denied three counts of rape and two of causing actual bodily harm, as well as two assaults against the victim and a charge of victim intimidation at Cardiff Crown Court. But following a trial, he was found guilty and was given an extended sentence.
James Parry
Parry was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison after stealing French bulldog puppies similar to the one pictured.
John Prosser, Michael Stenner and Tommy Harris
A man was left with a broken nose and nerve damage after he was beaten and stamped on by this violent gang in a lane as he let his cats out at night.
Jonathan Jarman, 36, was punched, kicked and headbutted outside his Gwent home, a judge at Cardiff Crown Court said.
David Masters
The 41-year-old was jailed for seven years after being caught with heroin. David Andrew Masters’ basement flat in Nolton Street, Bridgend, was raided by officers on August 12.
Full story: This 'sordid' heroin dealer tried hiding drugs under his tongue when he was searched by police
Stephen Bladen
The West Wales painter and decorator, from Pembroke Dock, has been jailed for 21 years for a series of rapes and sexual assaults on young girls going back to the 1980s.
David Michael Jenkins
The professional poker player was jailed for three years in July but this month a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing heard the criminal benefit from the enterprise was £1,012,767
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Lukasz Sierzant
Drunk, drug-addled Sierzant left talented musician Daf Roberts with permanent nerve damage after attacking him with a meat cleaver. The Polish bodybuilder was jailed for nine years.
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Terence Potter
Described as 'deeply dishonest', the film producer was jailed for eight years for £2.2m tax fraud bid linked to the film industry.
Christopher Mason
The armed man who sparked a five-hour siege when he barricaded himself into a Cardiff flat was jailed for four years. The 29-year-old warned police: “Come in and I’ll shoot you.”
Full story: An armed man sparked a five-hour siege and warned police: 'I have two shooters all loaded'
Arnel Raymundo
Stocktaker Arnel Raymundo was jailed for 16 years after repeatedly stabbing his partner with a kitchen knife during an attack at her Cardiff home.
Full story: 'Ferocious' attacker who stabbed his girlfriend and left her in a pool of blood jailed for 16 years
Chris Harvey
"Self-appointed bank manager" Chris Harvey, who has 21 children by nine women, stole money from his own family and then loaned it back to them at rates of up to 400,000% APR.
The 53-year-old loan shark was jailed for 40 months.
'Cash for crash' gang
Byron Yandell was among a total of 81 people convicted in a scam which saw people faking car crashes and making false insurance claims.
Abid Mohammed
The bully who blackmailed a teenage boy with special needs was locked up for two years. Cardiff Crown Court heard how the boy, who a judge ruled should not be identified, went by cab to deliver £550 to Abid Mohammed after the 18-year-old threatened his younger victim with violence.
Michael Hammond
The cocaine-fuelled drunk smashed a bottle before climbing onto a bar and jabbing it at a terrified pub worker as he screamed at her to open the till.
Network Rail worker Michael Hammond, 30, was drunk before he went into the Rose and Crown on the Graig at Pontypridd and launched his attack. He was jailed for two years.
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Lewis Sims
Lewis Sims, from Abersychan, was sentenced to 12 months in a young offenders institution for possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence after the teen pointed an airgun at a dad of four during a road-rage argument.
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David Morgan
The drink driver who twice caused crashes while he was already banned from driving was jailed for two years. The judge branded the 35-year-old, of Vicarage Lane, Cwmdu,Swansea, “a menace to society”.
Kenneth Jenkins
The 63-year-old man was jailed for six months after police found dozens of indecent images of children on his computer. Officers executed a search warrant at Kenneth Jenkins’ home in Caerphilly and discovered 57 indecent pictures and videos of children as young as three.
Full story: Man, 63, jailed after police find indecent images of children as young as three on his computer
Heroin gang
This drug-dealing gang were involved in the biggest ever seizure of heroin by Welsh police and were jailed for a total of more than 96 years in December. Sentences of between seven and 17 years were passed on eight men and one woman for drugs offences at Cardiff Crown Court. Another woman was sentenced for money laundering offences.
Full story: Ten members of drugs gang responsible for Wales' biggest ever heroin haul jailed for total of 96 years
Rebecca Jones and Lauro Bertulano
The two nurses were jailed after admitting neglecting elderly patients by falsifying their blood sugar readings. A third nurse, who also worked on the specialist stroke ward, avoided a custodial sentence but was given a community order.
Rebecca Jones, Lauro Bertulano and Natalie Jones were working at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend when they committed the offences during 2012.
Ryan Ford
The 24-year-old, who drove his Audi A4 into the smoking area of a Porthcawl nightclub injuring 21 people was sentenced to three years 10 months.
The shocking moment he ploughed into revellers:
Akeem Hassain
The 21-year-old was sentenced to seven years at Newport Crown Court for raping a student after she had been drinking with other freshers only hours after she arrived at university.
Nikki Griffiths
The 34-year-old was jailed for 40 months after he pulled out an imitation gun when a chip shop worker refused to give him a free fish cake.
He had gone to the Friary Fish Bar in Cardiff’s Fairwater Green shortly after 6pm on October 21 and asked the woman behind the counter for free food.
Lewis Laville
The 21-year-old paralysed from the waist down was given a suspended prison sentence this summer for driving while drunk at 84mph by pushing his legs onto the pedals has now been jailed for assaulting his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Darren Inder
The bungling burglar gave his real name and contact numbers after going on a spending spree using debit and credit cards stolen from people’s homes.
Darren Inder burgled homes in Bridgend , making off with cards which he then used to fund his trips around stores including River Island in Swansea. He was jailed for four and a half years.
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Christopher Coslett and Andrew Franklin
The pair were sentenced to one year imprisonment after 'violent confrontation' in Barry town centre involving martial arts weapons. A court heard they were "seeking revenge" for a previous assault.
Jason Agyekum-Sah and Barfah Joof
The two were involved in bringing cocaine and heroin to the streets of Cardiff and were jailed for a combined total of more than 10 years.
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Raymond Green
The burglar who left a business card with his name on it at the scene of one of his crimes was sentenced to seven years for a string of burglaries in Swansea.
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Steven Hill
Hill snuck into the back door of a retired couple's home in Cardiff and helped himself to a wallet before trying to withdraw cash with a stolen card at a nearby shopping centre 10 minutes later. He was jailed at Cardiff Crown Court to two years and five months.
see-http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/locked-up-murderers-paedophiles-criminals-10567033
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