Newport Magistrates' Court News Archives

Hedgehog torturer recalled to prison after release

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.

Christian Holley, of Markham, has been jailed for a sexual assault carried out at Newport’s Royal Gwent Hospital.

Kane Watkins, 19, of Mountain View, Machen, was arrested following a police raid on his home on Wednesday, October 7.

A council house in Blackwood has had a closure order imposed on it by magistrates because of persistent antisocial behaviour in it.

Daniel Morgan, 30, pleaded guilty to counts of assaulting an emergency worker and being drunk and disorderly in a public place.

Properties were raided in Trethomas, Bedwas and Abertridwr as part of Gwent Police’s Operation Jigsaw.

Three men from Caerphilly County Borough have appeared in court following a series of co-ordinated drugs raids across the UK.

Police have found and arrested 25-year-old Jack Cox, from Caerphilly, after an appeal to find him.

Daniel Carlo Depace, 30, was jailed for four months at Newport Magistrates’ Court earlier this month.

A Blackwood man has appeared in court following a police siege at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre.