BELOW is a round-up of all of the criminals whose prison sentencings were covered by the Free Press, Journal, Pioneer or Chronicle in July 2024.
Neil Foden
Neil Foden (Image: North Wales Police)
Foden, 66, of Gwynant, Old Colwyn, is a former headteacher of a Bangor secondary school who was jailed after he was found guilty of 19 sexual offences inflicted on four different children.
His offending dated between 2019 and 2023.
Read the full story from his three-week trial here.
Read the full coverage from his sentencing here.
Mark Jones
Mark Jones (Image: North Wales Police)
Jones, 41, of Highbury Avenue, Prestatyn,strangled his ex-partner in a jealousy-fuelled rage.
He had also admitted arson offences.
Ashley Butterfield
Ashley Butterfield (Image: North Wales Police)
Butterfield, of Stafford Street, Walsall,committed shoplifting and public order offences in Llangollen.
He was arrested after officers out on foot patrol in the area located him.
Leon Readymarcher
Leon Readymarcher (Image: North Wales Police)
Readymarcher, 22, of Ffordd Gwynedd, Llandudno, was caught dealing cocaine, months after being given a suspended sentence for supplying drugs.
More than 2,300 messages relating to drug supply had been sent by Readymarcher, including “40 a go… get on me”.
Read the full story here.
Nathan Bennett
Nathan Bennett (Image: North Wales Police)
Bennett, 35, of Park Hall Road, Greenfield, refused to leave a hotel in Gwynedd quietly after breaching his restraining order.
The incident took place at the Sandbanks Hotel in Marine Parade, Barmouth, on Friday, July 5.
Jodie Hayward
Jodie Hayward (Image: North Wales Police)
Hayward, 29, of Canol Creuddyn, Llandudno, dealt class A drugs from the Llandudno home of a “very vulnerable” man.
It transpired that Hayward had used his phone to send 791 “flare messages” advertising the sale of drugs, including at least two per day.
Read the full story here.
Richard Pierce
Richard Pierce (Image: North Wales Police)
Pierce, 54, of Bretton Road, Bretton, was jailed for a highly dangerous manoeuvre which could have killed two people near Ruthin.
He was found at a house in Clawdd-newydd and when questioned, he admitted moving out of the queue as "he didn't think much was happening”.
Joseph Oliver
Oliver, 33, of Westgate Road, Lytham St Annes, preyed on elderly and vulnerable North Wales and Lancashire residents to fraudulently gain more than £500,000.
He was director of LJ Property Solutions Ltd and Windowseal Ltd when he “dishonestly and persistently” defrauded customers between 2017 and 2023.
Alan Drew
Drew, 50, of Cwrt Sefton, Old Colwyn, sexually assaulted two children.
He committed the offences against two young girls between January 2019 and June 2021.
Read the full story here.
Jake Massey
Jake Massey (Image: North Wales Police)
Massey, 31, of Russell Court, Bolton, strangled a woman in Llandudno after she had been called a “grass”.
They were walking in silence when Massey tried to choke her “out of the blue” for a few minutes on Madoc Street.
Read the full story here.
Trefor Glyn Evans
Trefor Glyn Evans (Image: North Wales Police)
Evans, 36, of North Road, Caernarfon, was jailed after admitting to attacking a person and taking his belongings.
He took the victim’s phone, coat, hat and trainers.
Jacob Taylor
Jacob Taylor (Image: North Wales Police)
Taylor, 35, of Queen’s Avenue, Maesgeirchen, Bangor, assaulted a woman in a nightclub and then in front of her children at her home.
He carried out the violent attacks during the early hours of May 5, causing injuries to the victim’s knee and chest.
Gary Faulkner
Gary Faulkner (Image: North Wales Police)
Faulkner, 35, of Beechwood Road in Rhyl, attacked his partner and broke into a pharmacy to steal prescription drugs.
On June 3, he woke her by slapping her to the face and pouring water on her.
Tyrone Hughes
Tyrone Hughes (Image: North Wales Police)
Hughes, 26, of HMP Berwyn, was jailed after wounding his victim in the street with a large hunting knife in Llangollen.
The victim was taken to Wrexham Maelor Hospital, where it was found he had a wound to the upper right back of the chest.
Owen Kelliher
Kelliher, 22, of West Parade, Rhyl, was jailed after he committed a third breach of his suspended sentence.
He had been handed his initial suspended sentence after being found to be in possession of cannabis at a train station.
Edison Cani and Fluturim Kuti
Edison Cani and Fluturim Kuti (Image: North Wales Police)
Cani, 24, and Kuti, 28, both of no fixed abode, looked after a “sophisticated” cannabis growing operation in Rhyl.
Their offending came to light on April 11 of this year, when North Wales Police executed a search warrant at an industrial unit on Ernest Street in Rhyl.
Ian Wynne Williams
Ian Wynne Williams (Image: North Wales Police)
Williams, 49, of Mount Road, Llanfairfechan, was jailed after walking into a woman’s home uninvited and sexually assaulting her while she slept.
The incident happened in December 2022 when the woman was suddenly awoken to someone cuddling her from behind.
Read the full story here.
Steven Sheehan
Steven Sheehan (Image: North Wales Police)
Sheehan, 33, of King Edward Street, Barmouth, breached a restraining order by giving his dad foul abuse down the phone.
The restraining order followed a conviction for battery in January 2023.
Dylan Parry Jones
Dylan Parry Jones (Image: North Wales Police)
Jones,28, of Crystal House, Barmouth,intentionally strangled and stalked his ex-partner.
He also called her continuously and made threats of violence towards her and her family.
