Newport Magistrates' Court News Archives

Couple fined nearly £3k between them for unlicensed dog breeding

While their earnings are not known, the total asking price from the puppies advertised totalled around £50,000.

Jedd Wiegold, 32, of Keble Court, Graig y Rhacca, was advertising American Bully puppies for sale for up to £10,000.

A builder has been ordered to pay £15,000 by magistrates after admitting a string of charges under consumer protection law.

Magistrates have placed a closure order on a house in Pontlottyn in a bid to tackle persistent antisocial behaviour and criminal activity.

A Caerphilly teenager is due in court this morning as one of five defendants charged with the murder of a Newport man.

Gareth Rudge, 35, of no fixed abode, had been given a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO), which banned him from going into Blackwood town centre.

Alexander Booth, 35, of Pen y Bryn, Penyrheol, was among the six men to appear at Newport Magistrates’ Court on Saturday, March 20.

A director of a not-for-profit company which converted a double-decker bus into a homeless shelter has been prosecuted for assault.

Richard Coyle cut the hedgehog’s legs off, burned the animal and covered its head and eyes with hot candle wax in August last year.

A round-up of recent cases heard at magistrates’ courts.