Three attackers punched a 48-year-old man several times in the face as he walked through Caerphilly town centre at night.
Police want to speak to these two men pictured in the CCTV images in connection with the attack, which happened on Cardiff Road around 11.40pm on Sunday August 2.
The victim of the attack was walking along the road when he was approached by three men and was then punched in the face several times.
A second man was also punched when he tried to help. Gwent Police said neither man needed hospital treatment.
Anyone with information can call Gwent Police on 101 quoting log 576 02/08/15.
That`s the towns night time economy for you, is it no wonder the town centre is a `no go` area for most residents in the evenings. It is a fact that almost the entire night life in the Town consists of people migrating to the town from other areas, that keeps the pubs and Taxis busy, and of course the four town centre betting shops are open until after 10pm. What a wonderful construcive and `positive` life!!!!.
On another positive note, at least the Cerphilly Safety Partnership CCTV is alive and working, and keeping the town safe (sic), and, identifies those reponsible for this disruption.
Dont our local police offices have enough to do already?.
Caerphilly is not a no go area in the evenings. That’s just hyperbole.
Fights have always happened after a night of drinking and all though it’s never good and always need to be dealt with its not a war zone by any means.
What I stated was “the town centre is a `no go` area for most residents in the evenings”, this is a fact. like it or not!!!!.
If you think that it is acceptable to assualt each other on the streets of the town after having a `drink`, but, not only assualting each other, but setting about a totally innocent bystander going about his own business, then you are deluded.
Right Trevor lets getting something straight. I also meant the town centre when referring to Caerphilly and it is categorically not a “No Go” area. Can you show me the reports from the police, fire brigade, council anyone in authority that has decreed Caerphilly town centre a “No Go” are area at any time of the day or night or even on a full moon?
No?
That’s right you can’t can you? So please tell me how you can claim in your ultimate wisdom that it is? Show me proof Trevor!
Because I was in town till late the other weekend drinking in the same pub as one of the councillors that comments on this board and it was not a “No Go” area at any time of that evening for me or for him.
Secondly Trevor. Your moral outrage is both childish and pathetic. Usually the recourse of a person whose argument has run out of steam.
At no point would I or did I condone the events reported in this article. If this had happened to me and not him I would have been equally devastated and wish him all the best. Not only him but his family too as this is probably having a devastating effect on them also. But at no point would I use his misfortune to try and exaggerate an issue that is by no means prolific in Caerphilly town anymore.
We all know it happens and must be dealt with by the authorities on a zero tolerance basis but resorting to hysteria isn’t going to help.
The Name is TreFor. If you are going to pose questions to me have the decency NOT to answer them.
I take the prolonged indignity you profess as meaning you disagree with me, Yeah, that`ll be it. and you have every right to do so, you opinion would be more credible if you let everyone know your identity, I do.
Never mind all that waffle.
Can you produce proof that town is a “No Go” area of an evening. Statistics? Reports? Relevant data? Or just unfounded opinion?
Identify youself?. If not, Why Not?
You increasingly sound like a Ward Councillor, covering the town, in Denial. Statistics? Reports? Relevent Data?.
How about I start with :- The mindless assault on the innocent bystander, the person in the article.
Violent Assaults every week-end dealt with and quelled by the Gwent Police, (Drink related we are told). Violent
Assault which resulted in the death of an innocent bystander at the Taxi Rank, opposite and adjacent to two local pubs, ( drink related we are told).
Rampaging gangs of youths causing and committing offences of Arson, Criminal damage, threats to Residents, assaults on residents damage to private property, etc etc. ( this last series of incidents has been addressed by the local Gwent Police Commander Gareth Jones, who has had to resort, quite properly, to issueing displacment notices preventing the culprits from entering the Town,) that action of legally interfering with the rights of individuals to move around the town freely is not taken lightly by such an experienced and professional Senior Police Officer, who wants to ensure, so far as possible the streets of the town are relatively safe. And, you will realise he would not take such dreconian action if it was NOT NECESSARY, or would you suggest his actions are over the top and unjustified?.
Most traders in the town have resorted to installing unsightly and `in you face` metal shutters to the fronts of their properties on the commercial streets of the town, these are designed for specific purposes, but it maybe they have gone to this expense to improve the ambience of the town and make it look more attractive and to encourage a feeling of well being for night time visitors to the town?.and add to the night time economy? or for the local residents to feel comfortable on a strole through the town on a warm summers evening?, Providing of course they can tollerate the niose and foul and abusive language eminating from unsupervised pub beer gardens adjacent to the local pavements of the main street in the town.
All the above makes for the enjoyable evening out, in the town, by the local residents I spoke about in my original comment.
If you want to disprove any of what I say am sure that a Freedon of Information request to the Gwent Police would add considerable detail to the above facts in respect to their role in keeping a significant number of night time revellers, town users, in control.
Apart from personal grievances and myopic paranoia, some shameless name dropping and sophistic grumblings you have yet again failed on the the third attempt to prove that Caerphilly is a “No Go” area.
Your only two verifiable points worth reading are the two very serious and distressing events that happened around two years apart. They are not to be taken lightly and require serious concern but still do not constitute a “No Go” area by dint that they are, in actual fact, two years apart.
I also refuse to do your leg work in order to prove your point, so I suggest you request your own freedom of information.
I also suggest that you rescind your original statement, admit your hubris and save at least some self respect.
I take you are still in denial then James, oop`s sorry, Pete?
You’re going to be a little red faced when you find out how far off the mark you are. Better men than you have been brought low by pride and vanity.
That would be good, to find out how far off the mark I am, I mean, that is what open debate does, change peoples mind, and I am ready for that, and prepared to alter my views, providing opponants are honest and reasonable, and are prepared to stand up and be identified. I am neither very personally proud, so pride does not come into it, and I certainly have no rights to be vain. But what has any of your comment to with the state of Caerphilly Town and assaults on innocent bystanders? except me of course.
I’m disinterested in the majority of that paragraph but the last sentence is unclear. Could you restructure it and repost it, as in its present format it seems to suggest something untoward? Could you please clarify?
Pete, I dont live in the town centre, but I certainly recognise the issues raised by Trefor, as do many of my Plaid Cymru Colleagues, many of my friends will not go into town in the evening, if they do have to do so for a family meal or something similar, they will deliberatly plan to leave early, particularly if the kids go too..
It is certainly a no go area for any respectable family to spend any time in during the hours of darkness, I blame my colleague Plaid Cymru Councillors to some degree, who have represented the town on Caerphilly Council for some years now, it is their responsibility to do more to ensure there is a range of measures taken by all parties, including the seeking the co-orperation of town dwellers to improve the lot of the destruction seccessive Councils have caused or allowed to evolve to a once proud and famous Welsh Market Town.
I never said that Caerphilly town centre was welcoming to its full population demographic at night time.
I said it wasn’t a “No Go” area.
Trevor’s hysteria was my point of contention as its this constant red faced blow hard attitude that skews the issues out of proportion and has the potential to cease sensible debate.
Caerphilly has its issues as does any town centre across this country but I’m reasonably sure that because of less pubs and higher dining/drinking costs Caerphilly is a lot calmer now. Particularly in comparison to the 80’s and 90’s where violence could start at the top of town and not finish till it was fought all the way to the grapes wine bar on castle street. I know as I was there.
Caerphilly has improved its lot by a wide margin in the previous decades and although it has a ways to go it is not by any description a ” No Go” area.
Thank you for putting your point across calmly and without resorting to hyperbole.
You are wrong, the town is, as I explained, out of bounds to many residents, some of my colleagues in Plaid, and certainly to people with young children. It is therefore a `no go area` for the people I mentioned, and so far as I can check, these are the same people Trefor mentions in his comment.
You are also wrong in making a personal attack on anyone who makes comments in this arena, particularly when those comments are correct in fact, and correct in the concept those comments propose.
Only today, I received a communication from Gwent Police notifying me, and many other residents in Caerphilly, that over a three day period over the first three days of this month, four people have been banned from local pubs for serious assaults and violent disorder and behaviour in the town.
So your impression of the town is way off the mark, it is regularly and consistantly subjected to lawlessness, violence and criminal assaults, and until you understand and accept that as a fact your contribution to improving that unacceptable position is not helpful. It would be helpful if you repositioned yourself on these issues.
Further on this Matter, Trefor is correct, and, lets be clear about this Trefor and I belong to two very diverse political parties and often have spats in regard to that, so to seemingly agree on whats best for the town community is good.
It is not out of bounds, there are no tollgates or hastily erected barriers or armed guards. My original response to Trevor was an attack on his language, now I’m your doing it too.
I made no personal attack on Trevor, only on his character which is certainly not off the cards in any forum nor should it ever be as this would amount to censorship.
Talking of censorship, suggesting that I change my position because it is ” unhelpful” is an instance of staggering moral vanity and suggesting that I would be “helpful” if I changed my views beggars belief. Google it, look for the trigger words and get back to me.
Ok I’ll repeat this for the umpteenth time. Caerphilly town is a central shopping street with pubs and a night time economy and this does bring issues to the table and it is by no means a place of serenity and togetherness.
If you are easily offended by bad language then it is not a good idea to stand outside the kings on a Friday night. If you are a frail old lady then it is not a good idea to go to the railway hotel for a dance.
This does not constitute a “No Go” area, best avoided? Yes. Undesirable? Yes. But the description “No Go” has not been issued by any authority nor I’m guessing will it ever be as it is not that bad anymore. Not by any means perfect but neither are there gangs of cut throats and black legs waiting in the lounge bar to relieve you of your purse.
Your relationship with Trevor is not my concern.
A really sickening indecent, what is wrong with these mindless idiots who after a few drinks become violent and want to attack an innocent passer by – and if the man who was assaulted had fought back and given them a good hiding it would be him that would be in trouble with the law.
I think you are right on both counts, athough in Caerffili we have never had 24 hour drinking as in some towns. At least in this case the CCTV images should be good enough for the culprits to be recognised by someone.
DORA worked and was only rescinded for profit. Interestingly, there was a report on today’s telegraph that the licensing numbers for night clubs has halfed since the eighties.