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South Wales Argus
12-07-2025
- South Wales Argus
Look who's just been jailed from Newport and Caerphilly
We look at their cases. (Image: Jackson Walker) A TEENAGER drug dealer was caught red-handed with dozens of wraps of heroin inside a sock during a police raid at his grandparents' home. Jackson Walker, 18, from Newport threw the package out of a window just before he was arrested earlier this year. There were 34 wraps of heroin inside the sock in total with an estimated street value of £1,360, Cardiff Crown Court heard. Walker was sent to a young offender institution for 21 months. (Image: Kieran O'Connor) A sex offender has been jailed for hiding his mobile phone from the police after installing dating apps on it. Convicted paedophile Kieran O'Connor, 23, has persistently breached a sexual harm prevention order imposed in September 2020 after he contacted an 11-year-old girl. He was locked up for 20 months in December 2023 after sending sexual messages to underage girls on Facebook. O'Connor's latest offences took when his flatmate tipped off the police, prosecutor Hannah Friedman told Newport Crown Court. He was jailed for 10 months. (Image: Robert Mellon) A paedophile asked a '14-year-old schoolgirl' to send him naked pictures of herself in the bath after contacting her online. Serial sex offender Robert Mellon thought he was speaking to an underage child called Ella. But he was in fact chatting to paedophile hunters Dank Dragon carrying out a sting operation. The 57-year-old from Newport has been in and out of prison for more than two decades after committing a string of crimes. His was locked up for 32 months. (Image: Sinead Sandell) A hairdresser punched a woman in the head before stealing her mobile phone. Sinead Sandell, aged 37, attacked Sade Hughes as she walked along the street on Francis Drive in the Pill area of Newport. The defendant was charged with robbery but her guilty pleas to theft and assault were accepted by the prosecution. Sandell, of Stow Hill, Newport has 36 previous convictions for 94 offences on her criminal record. She was jailed for 34 weeks. (Image: Liam Murphy) Liam Murphy, 33, from Caerphilly, was jailed for supplying cocaine and amphetamine. He was locked up for two years and nine months. (Image: Lewis Harvey) A teen branded a 'high risk to the public' has been locked up after he caused serious injury to another man by careless driving. Lewis Harvey, 19, pleaded guilty to committing the offence against victim Declan Nisbeck-Jefferies on Elm Drive in Risca on Thursday, March 20. He also admitted failing to stop after a road accident, driving a motor vehicle otherwise than in accordance with a licence and driving with no insurance. Newport Magistrates' Court heard the 'offence was committed whilst he was subject to a community order and the defendant poses a high risk to the public'. Harvey, of Newport Road, Cwmcarn, Caerphilly also pleaded guilty to being in breach of a restraining order on Tuesday, September 24, 2024 and Sunday April 6. The defendant was sent to a young offender institution for 42 weeks and disqualified from driving for 26 months.
Daily Mirror
03-07-2025
- Daily Mirror
Man caught on camera throwing pet dog over gate banned from owning animals
Kieran O'Connor, 35, was banned from owning, keeping or dealing with animals for five years after he pleaded guilty to harming his pet bull-type breed called Prince A man caught on camera throwing his pet dog over a gate has been banned from owning animals. Kieran O'Connor, 35, was sentenced at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Wednesday after he was charged under the Animal Welfare Act in a case brought forward by the RSPCA. The charge sheet said O'Connor "failed to meet the need to protect his dog from pain, suffering, injury and disease by the infliction of physical abuse and emotional distress." O'Connor, of Parbrook Road in Huyton, in Merseyside, previously pleaded guilty to the charge on May 15. When he previously appeared at the court, O'Connor was given a community order which involved 26 programme requirement days and was ordered to pay costs of £5000 and the victim surcharge of £114. He was also banned from owning, keeping or dealing with animals for five years under section 34 of the same act. The incident, which happened on October 1 last year, was captured on CCTV footage and went on to be widely shared across social media, Liverpool Echo reports. The 20-second clip saw O'Connor walking his brown male bull breed dog called Prince before stopping outside his home. The self-employed gardener was then seen picking up his dog by the skin on his back and neck, before going on to lift him up and forcibly throwing him over the fence and onto the concrete path. O'Connor then opened the gate in order to let himself in. There have been other instances where people have been banned from owning animals. In 2023, a father and son were banned from owning animals after they superglued a dogs lips together. Robert Mills and Jack Mills used a strong commercial adhesive in a horrific and selfish DIY effort to patch up their terrier's wounds after they put him through an illegal fox hunt. But after being caught, the pair were handed a suspended prison sentence and told to rehome all their other animals and give up their five dogs to the RSPCA. Their Patterdale terrier Fudge suffered gruesome injuries after they forced it onto an illegal fox hunt. They tried to claim the injuries came after attacks from a badger or a rabbit. Police raided their home after an RSPCA investigation and also found a lurcher with extensive scarring across its face, a large part of its tongue missing as well as a weeping nailbed on one of its paws.
South Wales Argus
19-06-2025
- South Wales Argus
Blaenavon paedophile jailed for hiding mobile phone
Convicted paedophile Kieran O'Connor, 23, has persistently breached a sexual harm prevention order imposed in September 2020 after he contacted an 11-year-old girl. He was locked up for 20 months in December 2023 after sending sexual messages to underage girls on Facebook. O'Connor's latest offences took place last month when his flatmate tipped off the police, prosecutor Hannah Friedman told Newport Crown Court. When officers arrived at the address, they discovered that the defendant had a Nokia smartphone he hadn't told them about. He denied it was his before the phone was found hidden in the flat's meter cabinet. O'Connor had installed Snapchat and dating apps with his internet history deleted. The defendant, formerly of Cwmbran, now of Riverside Drive, Blaenavon admitted three counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order. His offending took place on Wednesday, May 14. O'Connor has five previous convictions for eight offences, including engaging in sexual communication with a child. The defendant's barrister Jac Brown told the court that his client was realistic that an immediate prison sentence was inevitable. His lawyer said: 'He was very candid in his police interview – he had tried to conceal the phone from them. 'I would ask that he be given the maximum credit for his early guilty pleas.' Judge Eugene Egan told O'Connor: 'You have breached your sexual harm prevention order several times since it was imposed on September 9, 2020. 'You have appeared before court for doing so in April 2021, December 2021 and December 2023 – and here you are again today.' He said the defendant had a 'proven track record' of ignoring the order and added: 'The only sentence that can be imposed today is one of immediate custody. 'This was a deliberate breach.' O'Connor was jailed for 10 months and told that the time he has spent remanded in custody would count towards his sentence. He should be released on licence at around the halfway point. The defendant will also have to pay a victim surcharge.
