• Daniel John Street, aged 22, of Pentwyn, Penyrheol, appeared before Cwmbran Magistrates on January 12 and admitted driving without insurance. He was fined £500, ordered to pay prosecution costs of £85 and banned from driving for one month.
• Dale Boucher, aged 38, of Llanarth Road, Pontllanfraith, appeared before Newport Magistrates on January 12 and admitted possession of 0.69g of Mephedrone. He also admitted failing to appear before magistrates for an earlier hearing while on bail. He was fined £140, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £20 and prosecution costs of £85.
• Sean Robert Houghton, aged 36, of Greenwood Court, Lansbury Park, Caerphilly, appeared before Newport Magistrates on January 12. He admitted stealing six handbags, with a combined value of £600, from TK Maxx in Lockgate Retail Park, Cwmbran, and sunglasses worth £420 from Mendalgief Retail Park in Newport. He was given a six-month supervision order and ordered to undertake 120 hours of unpaid community work. He was also told to pay compensation of £1,020 and pay prosecution costs of £250.
• Leon John, aged 24, of Snowden Court, Lansbury Park, Caerphilly, appeared before Newport Magistrates on January 12. He denied breaking into a garage with the intention of stealing a quad bike and a motorcycle, but was found guilty after a summary trial. He was given a 12-week community order banning him from leaving his address between the hours of 6pm and 6am. He was ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £60 and prosecution costs of £400.
• Conan Martin Ennis, aged 23, of Aneurin Bevan Avenue, Gelligaer, appeared before Newport Magistrates on January 14. He was sentenced for two counts of common assault, which he had denied but was found guilty of at a previous hearing. Ennis was handed a restraining order banning him from making contact with one of his victims. He was told to do 150 hours of unpaid community work, to be completed within 12 months and ordered to pay £100 compensation, a victim surcharge of £60 and prosecution costs of £620.
• Brett Wayne Prangley, aged 37, of Coronation Street, Trethomas, appeared before Newport Magistrates on January 17. He admitted stealing chocolates, coffee and chickens worth £86 from Tesco. He also admitted failing to appear for a previous hearing and was given a four-month order banning him from leaving his address between the hours of 9pm and 6am each day. He was also ordered to pay a £60 victim surcharge and £85 costs.
• Daniel McCrellis, aged 29, of Church Street, Rhymney, appeared before Newport Magistrates on January 20. He admitted growing ten cannabis plants, possessing 3.99g of heroin, 2.4g of mephedrone and possessing a quantity of cannabis. He was ordered to undergo a drug rehabilitation programme and was told to pay a £60 victim surcharge and £85 in prosecution costs.
• Joshua Organ, aged 21, of Upper Capel Street, Bargoed, appeared before Newport Magistrates on January 20. He admitted possessing a quantity of cocaine and was fined £110. He was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £20 and prosecution costs of £85.
• Michael Rees, aged 36, of Herbert Avenue, Risca, appeared before Newport Magistrates on January 21. He admitted breaching a restraining order and of causing harassment, alarm or distress under the Public Order Act 1986. He was also found to have committed these offences while serving a suspended sentence. He was jailed for a total of 24 weeks and told to pay a victim surcharge of £80.
• Shaun Way, aged 36, of Commercial Street, Pontymister, Risca, appeared before Newport Magistrates on January 21. He admitted a charge of criminal damage, two charges of breaching a restraining order. The court was told the offences occurred while Way was under a conditional discharge for a previous breach of a restraining order. He was jailed for a total of four months and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £80 and prosecution costs of £85.
A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Leon John had admitted burglary.
Who really cares?accept the victims of course, and they will know about it already.
Observer, Lets have some news about the collapsing health care provisions in Ystrad Mynach Hospital, the collapsing of the multi million pound radioligy unit at the hospital, causing local patients to travel as far as Abergavenny as an alternative, Why is this being allowed to happen? is it because the ABHB are in total denial about proper management and improved and additional provisions at this multi million pound hospital, allowing it to degenerate into no more than a cottage hospital for treatment with very little or no diagnostic facilities at all?
I have to make it clear, because administrators, managers, and Members of the ABHB are very delicate people and will find a very high horse to clime onto as a result of my questions and comments, I have no critisism of any clinician or other staff members who relate totally to patients, they do the jobs they are engaged to do and more often go well beyond that.
So, Editor, Rich, how about it.
The ABHB have to make serious changes to thier idiogily in respect to the level of engagement people of their area or responsibility are entitled to expect from them,
In creating their empires, money which should be spent of patient centered services is being diverted into perversly extravegant levels of pay and expenses for managers and administrators, publish the statistics, show us how the financial cake is carved up, and, let those figures show the increases in administrative costs by the creation of `new` management and administrative post, and, more importantly how much more or less,, year on year, as been spent on patient centered diagnostics and treatment, I wonder if we all be surprised????