THESE criminals from across west Wales have been jailed throughout May.
The defendants were accused of offences including rape, sexual assault, exposure, stabbing another man, drug trafficking, having child sex abuse images, assaults, shoplifting, burglary, wounding, having a knife, and making death threats.
They were jailed for a total of just over 48 years combined.
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Here’s a round-up of the cases.
Steven Loveridge
Paedophile Steven Loveridge exposed himself to children in shops as part of a “warped” sexual game in which he used cards and a dice to pursue young girls with the intent of sexually abusing them.
60-year-old Loveridge was described as “a determined paedophile who has an entrenched sexual interest in children”.
On November 28 last year, Loveridge exposed his penis to a nine-year-old girl who was waiting for her mother outside the toilets at Asda in Ystalyfera.
A week later, on December 8, he followed two girls, aged 12 and 13, around Home Bargains in Ystradgynlais whilst masturbating. Loveridge then exposed his penis to them and said ‘Do you want to stroke my cock?’.
Loveridge was arrested walking from Ystalyfera to Ystradgynlais, and he was found with dice and coloured cards which included actions such as ‘Follow 15’, ‘Stop pursuing’, ‘Girl incoming’, and ‘Hostage’.
On the defendant’s devices, officers found 469 images and videos of child sexual abuse dating back to July 2007, and internet searches for the age of consent in the UK and school lunch and break times.
He also made notes detailing children’s schools, ages, and the routes they took, and had marked out houses with children’s toys outside, and “escape routes” avoiding CCTV cameras on maps, as well as labelling a group of remote outbuildings with the word ‘hostage’.
There were also voice recordings including one that detailed his offending in Home Bargains in which he said “I felt like it was going to work”.
Loveridge, of Cyfyng Road in Ystalyfera, pleaded guilty to two offences of exposure, two offences of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, and three charges of possessing indecent images of children.
He must register as a sex offender for life, and the judge imposed 15-year restraining orders.
Mcauley Brown and Haydn Blockwell
Masked teenager Mcauley Brown stabbed a man with a ‘zombie’ knife outside a Pembrokeshire McDonald’s.
Haydn Blockwell and Haydn Ashton appeared alongside him in the dock having both admitted affray.
A car containing the three defendants pulled alongside the victims on the Victoria Bridge in the early hours of August 24, and the defendants shouted ‘We’ll stab you up’ and ‘We’ll shut you up’ at the victims before driving off.
The victims carried on to the McDonald's under the bridge, and then the car pulled up again whilst they were standing outside with some friends.
Brown - who was wearing a balaclava - punched one of the men before pulling out what appeared to be a “hunting knife or zombie knife” from his waistband.
He then switched his attention to the second victim and started “swinging the knife” at him whilst shouting ‘I’ll slice you’. The victim suffered cuts to his torso and fingers.
Brown then stabbed him in the shoulder with the six-inch blade.
Blockwell and Ashton had followed Brown from the car. Blockwell was following one of the victims shouting ‘I’ll shut you up’, whilst Ashton had picked up a metal pole.
After the stabbing, the three attackers ran back to the car “laughing” and fled the scene.
The victim was taken to hospital, and his wound as two centimetres wide and “deep”.
Each of the defendants were arrested, and Brown was further charged with criminal damage – which he admitted – after carving his initials into the cell door at the police station.
18-year-old Brown, of Tower View in Marloes, was sentenced to three years and two months detention after he pleaded guilty on the day of trial to stabbing one man and threatening another man with a knife.
Blockwell, 18, of James Street in Hakin, was sentenced to 16 months detention, but will be released immediately due to the period he had already spent in custody.
Ashton, 19, of Larch Road in Milford Haven, was sentenced to 13 months, suspended for 18 months – as part of which he must complete 150 hours of unpaid work and 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days.
The two victims were granted seven-year restraining orders against their attackers.
Lloyd Davies
Lloyd Davies, 29, of Caecoed in Llandybie, will face “a significant spell in prison” after he raped and sexually abused two children.
His victims, both girls, were aged between six and 11 years old at the time of the offences.
One of Davies’ victims came forward after confiding in a friend and subsequently a counsellor in her college, before reporting the crimes to the police in December 2022.
The court heard that Davies first raped her while they played the computer game Minecraft when she was still in primary school.
The victim suffered four further incidents of sexual abuse and rape by Davies.
Following Davies’ arrest, a second victim came forward to the police. She said that she had been sexually abused by him when she was around nine years old.
A police investigation was carried out by Dyfed-Powys Police which resulted in Davies coming to trial
He was unanimously found guilty of three counts of raping a child, two counts of causing or inciting a child aged under 13 to engage in sexual activity, sexual assault on a child aged under 13, and making a Category A indecent image of a child at Swansea Crown Court on March 26, 2025.
He returned to court on May 9 and was jailed for 12 years.
Samantha Beattie
Samantha Beattie permanently blinded her friend in one eye and left him with “horrific injuries” after she threw a mug into his face in an unprovoked attack whilst he made tea.
Beattie, 51, had been homeless before a friend invited her to live with him and his mother.
On January 12, the victim was stood in the kitchen making some tea when he felt a “forceful strike” to the side of his face.
Beattie had entered the room and accused him of stalking her on social media. She then threw a mug into the side of his face and it smashed upon impact.
The attack left blood streaming down the side of the victim’s face, and he screamed out in pain.
Beattie then began imitating and mocking him as he knelt there wounded, before saying ‘What are you crying about?’.
The victim and his mum barricaded themselves into a room to protect themselves and called an ambulance.
He was taken to Singleton Hospital, and was found to have “five separate lacerations” where the mug had smashed, including to his cheek, eyelid, and directly into his eyeball.
The surgeons also removed shards of ceramic from the wounds.
Beattie was arrested after she was spotted running down Cross Park in Pennar.
The defendant, of no fixed abode, denied wounding with intent, but pleaded guilty to a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm – which the prosecution accepted.
Beattie’s defence counsel said she had been diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia at the time of the offence – although the defendant rejected this diagnosis.
Before the judge could deliver his sentence, Beattie – who was appearing over a video link from prison – said “That’s b*******” and stormed out of the room.
She was jailed for 15 months, and the victim was granted a five-year restraining order.
Leighton Evans
Leighton Evans was banned from contacting his pregnant ex-partner, but he still went to her house and strangled her after she refused to withdraw her complaint to the police.
Evans, 30, of London Road in Pembroke Dock, had been in a relationship with the victim, but was bailed not to contact her after he had been accused of assaulting her – for which he was later found guilty.
At around 10.10pm on November 8 last year, the victim – who was 30 weeks pregnant – was at home in Pembroke when she heard a noise in her back garden.
She found Evans in the garden, and he then climbed through the window, said she was “ruining his life” and told her to withdraw her complaint against him.
When she refused, he left – making sure to avoid the Ring doorbell camera – and then started arguing with her at the side of the house – even telling her that she was going to lose her baby.
In response, the victim pushed him away, but Evans then grabbed her by the throat with both hands. She pushed him in the neck to get him off of her, and he ran away.
Evans initially denied offences of intentional strangulation and witness intimidation, but on the day of trial he admitted the strangulation charge.
He was jailed for 28 months, and the victim was granted a three-year restraining order against him.
Kieran Pritchard
Llanybydder drug dealer Kieran Pritchard was caught with £3,000-worth of counterfeit tobacco in his car when he was pulled over by police.
Officers stopped Pritchard’s Vauxhall Astra on December 29, 2023, and found 73 packs of what appeared to be Amber Leaf and Golden Virginia tobacco inside.
The packaging was later examined by each of the companies and they were found to be counterfeit, and the court heard that the counterfeit tobacco was worth “just under £3,000”.
When the police searched his home, officers recovered “just under £30,000” in cash from various locations around the house, as well as weighing scales, plastic bags and containers, and 4.63 grams of cocaine.
Pritchard’s phone also revealed he had been selling the counterfeit tobacco and his involvement in dealing cocaine.
In interview, Pritchard told the police that he had become involved in dealing in order to pay off his brother’s drug debts.
Pritchard, 33, of Heol Y Gaer in Llanybydder, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute goods bearing a false trademark, being concerned in the supply of cocaine, possession with intent to supply cocaine, and possession of criminal property – relating to the cash.
He was jailed for a total of three years and four months.
Ryan Thomas
Burglar Ryan Thomas tried to mask his identity by putting a plastic bag over his head before ploughing a stolen car into a petrol station shop so he could make off with cigarettes and alcohol.
Thomas broke in to a home on Broad Street in Llandovery in the early hours of April 1 by reaching through a disused cat flap to open the door, and stole a box of Budweiser and the keys to a Toyota Yaris.
He drove the Yaris some 18.5 miles before abandoning it in the Llandybie area.
After ditching the car, Thomas broke in to a nearby home on Ammanford Road and stole the keys to a Volvo S80.
He drove the Volvo to Petro Express on Cwmamman Road in Glanaman, where he committed “a ram-raid style burglary” at just after 4am.
Thomas was seen putting what appeared to be plastic bags over his hands and head before he smashed the car through the front of the shop. Once inside, he swiped cigarettes, alcohol, and cash from the tills.
The Volvo was recovered in the Swansea area. It had extensive damage and Thomas had tried to set fire to the interior.
The ram-raid caused damage worth £17,820 to the petrol station.
Thomas’ fingerprints were found on the door and cat flap of the first home, as well as on the empty beer bottles left in the abandoned Yaris. He was seen entering the second home on the doorbell camera.
But by the time he was linked to the burglaries, he had been jailed for unrelated offences.
He was jailed for a total of 31 months and was banned from driving for five years and three months.
Ryan Robinson
‘Prolific’ shoplifter Ryan Robinson was caught on camera bagging 54 bottles of Jack Daniels and 20 bottles of Champagne during one of his raids on a Tesco store.
Robinson entered Tesco in Pembroke Dock on July 13 last year with two large bags and a trolley. He then proceeded to load 16 bottles of alcohol – including whiskey, Champagne, vodka and brandy – into the bags and left without paying.
The total value of the alcohol was £463.50.
A week later, on July 20, Robinson entered Tesco in Aberystwyth and bagged 54 bottles of Jack Daniels, 20 bottles of Champagne, 10 bottles of vodka, “multiple” packets of crisps, and bedding – worth a total of £3,566 – before leaving the store without paying.
He returned to Tesco in Aberystwyth on August 2 and loaded up his trolley with £2,000-worth of alcohol before leaving without paying.
The defendant also targeted Boots on Caroline Street in Bridgend on December 18. He filled a shopping basket with “various perfumes” and went to the back of the store to empty it into his bags. He did this three times before leaving without paying for the stolen goods valued at £2,777.
Each of these incidents were captured on CCTV.
Robinson pleaded guilty to shoplifting in Bridgend, but was found guilty of three charges of shoplifting relating to the Pembroke Dock and Aberystwyth offences after they were proved in his absence at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court on December 5.
The 51-year-old, of Heol Calfin in the Ravenhill area of Swansea, was jailed for a total of two years for the shoplifting offences, and a further three months - running consecutively – was activated of a previously-imposed suspended sentence.
Mark Brook
Burglar Mark Brook repeatedly entered a Tenby home and swiped bottles of beer from the fridge after he found the front door had been left unlocked.
The victim left his door unlocked on Lower Frog Street when he went to work at just after 6am on April 21 last year. He said he normally left his door unlocked whilst his wife was still at the house – although she was asleep upstairs at the time.
When she came downstairs, she found the front door was wide open, and her husband returned home and found “several bottles of beer” were missing from the fridge.
CCTV cameras at neighbour’s business showed Brook walking past the home at 6.20am.
He returned into shot four minutes later trying a neighbour’s door, before trying the victims’ door and disappearing inside for around a minute. He then reappeared holding a bottle of beer.
Brook was recorded entering the victims’ home two more times – at just before 7am and just after 7.33am – each time exiting holding bottles of beer.
Brook was arrested in Cardigan in July, and pleaded guilty to burglary with intent to steal at Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court on January 2.
The 31-year-old, of Brynheulwen in Blaenannerch, was jailed for 16 months.
Wayne Tydeman
Wayne Tydeman, 43, of no fixed abode, has been jailed after he twice threatened that he was going to kill his flatmate.
Shortly after 8am on February 1, Tydeman called 999 and told the call handler he was fleeing domestic abuse. He said he was now living with his friend, but he couldn’t go back to the flat as he was going to kill him.
Tydeman told the call handler he “was going to do something to get back to prison and nothing would stop him”.
After the 43-minute call, police officers attended and spoke with Tydeman.
Just days later, a community nurse spoke with Tydeman at Glangwili Hospital. She described him as being “manipulative” and “doing everything he could to get a hospital admission”.
During this conversation, Tydeman told the nurse that this was “his last day” and also his flatmate’s last.
The nurse said she didn’t believe Tydeman would carry out the threat, but the potential risk to his flatmate meant it couldn’t be ignored. But as she called 999, Tydeman discharged himself from hospital.
He was picked up by officers in Carmarthen, and later pleaded guilty to two offences of making threats to kill.
Tydeman, previously of Haverfordwest, was jailed for a total of 18 months.
Fraser Bourke-Connell
Fraser Bourke-Connell, 53, of Cilgerran, made a series of vile threats to kill his own son.
Bourke-Connell and his partner were driving home from Cardigan on September 7 last year. As they were driving, the defendant “became erratic” and demanded that she took him to his son’s house, saying that “needs to die” and said “I need to kill him tonight”.
The defendant was arrested, and was released on bail.
During a conversation with his mental health community advocate on October 4, Bourke-Connell said he wanted to kill his son, before disclosing he wanted to “stab him with his own femur”.
Days later, Bourke-Connell made further threats against his son during a phone call with his mental health community advocate that he wanted to strangle his son and mutilate him.
On the evening of October 7, the defendant turned up at his son’s step-brother’s home and asked where the spare keys were to his son’s car. When the step-brother refused to tell him, Bourke-Connell pushed his finger into his chest and threatened to “smash everything” in his storage container, and that he would then go and smash his son’s car.
Bourke-Connell was also charged with harassment against his son, relating to a series of messages between June 30 and August 31 last year. In the messages, the defendant told his son that he “wanted him to die”, and that he “wanted to snap his leg and stab him in the chest with it”.
Bourke-Connell was sentenced to a total of 18 months imprisonment, and his son was granted a three-year restraining order against him.
Marcel Mullings
![Marcel Mullings has been jailed for his involvement in trafficking cocaine and cannabis.]()
Marcel Mullings has been jailed for his involvement in trafficking cocaine and cannabis. (Image: Dyfed-Powys Police)
“Habitual” drug trafficker Marcel Mullings had £1,740 in cash stashed inside a pillowcase when he was caught in a police raid.
Officers attended an address on College Park in Neyland on March 27. A person inside was found in possession of cannabis, and Mullings was found asleep in one of the rooms.
Mullings was taken to hospital as it was suspected he had stashed drugs “internally”, Mr Strobl said.
A search of the house uncovered weighing scales, £1,740 in cash hidden inside a pillowcase, snap bags, and two mobile phones which had been snapped in half and thrown behind a sofa.
Despite the damage to the phones, officers were able to establish that a SIM card linked to phone number which operated as a drugs line had been used in each of them, as well as in the defendant’s personal phone.
Mullings, 23, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine and cannabis and possession of criminal property.
He was sentenced to the mandatory minimum sentence of seven years, minus the defendant’s discount for his guilty pleas. This totalled a 2,045-day sentence – approximately five years and eight months.
A forfeiture order was made for the £1,740 cash.
Mark Briskham
Drug mule Mark Briskham stashed more than 12 grams of heroin up his bum.
Briskham and another man drove to the Swansea area to pick up a quantity of diamorphine – heroin – at around 9.30am on June 8 last year.
He was stopped by police in Llanteg on his way back home that afternoon. No drugs were found in the car or on either of the men, so they were both taken to Withybush Hospital for a scan.
The passenger’s scan was negative, but Briskham then refused to be examined.
He was taken to the police station and kept under supervision, until he asked to go to the toilet and expelled a package containing 12.7 grams of diamorphine from his rectum.
The heroin was valued by an expert at £1,590 if sold in street deals.
Briskham initially denied a charge of possession with intent to supply heroin, but admitted a charge of possession. However, he pleaded guilty on the morning of trial on a basis which was accepted by the prosecution.
The defendant said he only wanted to buy seven grams of heroin for his own personal use. He had agreed to drive to pick the drugs up and bring them back, and would be supplied with seven grams out of the total haul when this was done.
“He’s being used as a mule,” the judge summarised.
52-year-old Briskham, of Wavell Crescent in Pembroke Dock, was jailed for a total of 16 months.
Kieran Vaughan
Kieran Vaughan, 37, of Caradoc Place in Haverfordwest, assaulted his partner whilst they were out for drinks after she told him he couldn’t take any drugs that evening.
Vaughan and his partner went out for lunch and drinks on March 8. Whilst they were out, somebody approached Vaughan and they began talking about drugs. However, his partner told him he couldn’t take any drugs that evening.
After the couple moved on to another pub, they began to argue and Vaughan grabbed at his partner’s hand and tried to pull the engagement ring off her finger.
When the argument was broken up, his partner felt pain in her arm and went to A&E. She was triaged and told that her finger wasn’t fractured, but she likely had a sprained wrist. However she left before receiving treatment.
Vaughan was arrested that evening and denied assaulting his partner.
He later pleaded guilty to assault by beating, which was accepted by the prosecution.
Vaughan was sentenced to four months imprisonment, meaning he was released immediately as he had already served the equivalent of a four-month sentence in custody whilst on remand.
Daniel Davies
Daniel Davies, 38, of Maes Y Bedol in Garnant, was found guilty of a “serious” and “unprovoked” assault against a woman on Cwmamman Road on February 22.
He pleaded not guilty, but was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
The court heard that the offence was “an unprovoked attack of a serious nature”, and was so serious that only a custodial sentence could be justified.
Davies was jailed for 42 weeks on May 7 at Llanelli Magistrates’ Court, and was ordered to pay £650 in costs and £100 in compensation.
Robert Parker
Robert Parker, 42, of no fixed abode, has been jailed after being caught in possession of a kitchen knife with a 20cm blade in public in Pembroke on May 8.
He pleaded guilty at Llanelli Magistrates’ Court on May 9.
Parker was jailed for six months as the court deemed the offence was so serious that only a custodial sentence could be justified and it was his third strike offence.
He must also pay £85 in costs, and a forfeiture and destruction order was made for the knife.
Raymond Crosby
Shoplifter Raymond Crosby, 38, admitted stealing alcohol worth £1,634 from Tesco in Haverfordwest.
It was alleged that he went to the store equipped with foil-lined bags and wire cutters on May 10 and made off with the booze.
Crosby indicated a guilty plea to shoplifting on May 12, but denied going equipped for theft. However, he returned to Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court a week later and switched his plea to guilty.
Crosby, of Heol Amlwch in Llandaff North, Cardiff, was sentenced to 20 weeks imprisonment and must also pay £85 in costs.
