A police officer who had sex with a child rape victim, two savage robbers and a nightclub worker looking for revenge were among those locked up in Wales in the past month.http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/locked-up-burglar-caught-underpants-11809526
Darren Machon
The burglar was left red-faced after his novelty underpants were held up in court and used as evidence against him. The 39-year-old, from Bridgend, was jailed for 34 months having been arrested for the burglary of a house in Park Street, Bridgend, in February.
John Spencer Graham
The 21-year-old driver who was “coasting” before a crash which killed three passengers was jailed for 10 months after admitting three counts of causing death by careless driving. Ryan Paul Gibbons, 20, and Gethin Rhys Jones, 18, both from the Bargoed area, died at the scene in Aberdare Road, Merthyr Tydfil, on October 11 last year.
Thomas Stokes and Martin Stokes
The father punched a dog breeder as he stole a puppy worth £1,200 and his son tried to take the blame. Elizabeth Swain from Abergavenny described how the attack turned her into an "absolute wreck".
Jamie Richards
The hooded robber went on the run after holding a kitchen knife to the throat of a woman in her own house. He was locked up for nine-and-a-half years this month for the attack at the house in Ravenhill, Swansea, in February. His also knifed the woman's pet dog in the stomach.
Rhys Hobbs
He was sentenced to eight years for killing his partner Andrea Lewis in a "brutal and sustained" attack. The mother-of-two was found by police and paramedics "soaking wet and cold to the touch" and covered in bruises on the kitchen floor of a property in Tonna on the morning of January 30.
Stanislav Demater
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for an attempted rape in Cardiff Bay three years ago. Demater was arrested for an unconnected matter more than two years later in January 2016 when an officer noticed him acting suspiciously in Cardiff city centre.
Martin Rhys-Jones
The father of Gareth Bale's fiancée Emma was sentenced to six years in prison by a court in the United States at the end of the month. He was jailed after admitting money laundering in a $2.9m fraud earlier this year.
PC James Evans
The serving police officer was jailed for four years after having sex with a child rape victim he met online. The 26-year-old, who served in the Metropolitan Police, exchanged dozens of “sex talk” messages with the vulnerable 15-year-old schoolgirl on the Tinder dating app.
Thomas Jarman (left) and Christopher Jones
The robbers armed with a claw hammer and spanner burst into a flat and launched a savage attack on two men who were watching TV inside. One of the victims thought he was going to die during the attack in Llandrindod Wells.
Clive Doster
The 69-year-old from Cowbridge was jailed for six years after he showed "no remorse" for sexually abusing a vulnerable young girl.
Nicholas Williams
The Wrexham footballer who broke an opponent’s leg with an “astonishing and deliberate flying tackle” has been jailed for 12 months.
The 26-year-old had denied kicking AFC Brynford’s Andrew Barlow during a Welsh National Division One cup match last October but had admitted it was a “horrible” incident.
Davey Paxton
The chef was jailed after setting another man’s head on fire with a home-made “flamethrower”. Paxton, 23, used an aerosol deodorant can and lighter in a late-night stunt - but the joke backfired as his victim was severely burnt.
John Amos
Jailed for eight years for raping an “emotionally fragile” woman while she was asleep. The court heard how the victim, who was described as a “vulnerable woman”, was woken by the defendant raping her.
Lee Pinches
The 32-year-old, of Oxford Street, Pontycymer, was jailed for 48 weeks at Cardiff Crown Court after taking the car in Bridgend on July 10 while under the influence of heroin and Valium. A mum and her 11-month-old daughter were in the car at the time.
Karl Legg
The prolific criminal described by a judge as being responsible for “a one-man crime wave” was back behind bars this month. The court heard how he had broken into homes, stolen cars and even made off with £250 from a doctors’ surgery during a rampage around Cardiffearlier this year.
Jordan Rowlands
The nightclub worker who stole almost £70,000 from a popular Cardiff nightclub “in revenge” for having to work long hours fought back tears as he was sent to jail. The 23-year-old, from Gelligaer, had already admitted carrying out the theft from his employers, 90s-themed establishment Retro in Mill Lane.
Gavin Roderick
The man who lured somebody he met on an internet dating site to Neath then pulled an air pistol on him in a convenience store car park.
Swansea Crown Court heard that Roderick contacted a man from Bristol on the site FabSwingers, and after a day of messaging between them he invited him to Cimla, sending him a post code to drive to.
Abbas Feizi
The drug-dealing asylum seeker who said he had to flee Iran after speaking out against the government was jailed for trying to sell cannabis on the streets of Cardiff .
Ross Mccaddon
The Barry burglar was arrested after leaving his blood at the scene of his crime and was jailed for two years at the start of August. Cables and power tools worth almost £10,000 were taken from a house undergoing repair work.
Lance Jenkins and Steven Jenkins
The pair were jailed after fabricating claims that led to an innocent man being sentenced to 12 years behind bars.
Carl Miller
The 37-year-old from Newport admitted possessing indecent images of children and was jailed for 16 months. He was also placed on the sex offenders register.
Robert Campbell
The 'professional' burglar was jailed at Cardiff Crown Court after being caught walking into a garden of a home in the city with a pair of socks stuffed in his mouth and carrying a screwdriver. The 48-year-old was spotted by a South Wales Police constable patrolling Senghennydd Road, Cathays, at around 10pm on July 3.
Hayek Madoyan
The one-eyed robber was jailed for 16 years for a string of robberies across the country, including one in Cardiff city centre where he tried to hold up a First Choice store. But the court heard that fearless travel agent Rebeca Nielson just laughed at him.
Jack Powell
The 22-year-old was jailed for 16 weeks after attacking the mother of his unborn child. A court heard how he stubbed out a cigarette on the shoulder of his former partner.
Wayne Morgan
The 26-year-old was jailed after pleading guilty to aggravated vehicle taking and dangerous driving, in which “mercilessly” nobody was injured.
