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Dorset and North Wales Year-End Court Lists Spotlight 2025 Convictions, December Jailings

Local roundups capture 2025 convictions alongside December sentences, with a key Bournemouth murder case still to be punished.

Overview

  • Dorset’s review highlights Jordan Wilkes being jailed for 30 years for the attempted murder of a nine-year-old girl in Christchurch.
  • A Bournemouth jury found Zoe Treadwell guilty of murdering Joey Johnstone with a Range Rover and of two further attacks, with sentencing set for January 2026.
  • North Wales’ December cases include Benjamin Griffiths, jailed for 44 months after robbing a woman of her car and crashing into a Tesco delivery van in Wrexham.
  • Gwynedd teenager Thomas Baker was jailed for using his car as a weapon to run down a man after a street altercation, causing a serious head injury.
  • A visitor and an inmate at HMP Berwyn were each jailed for 21 months for attempting to smuggle nearly £20,000 of drugs into the prison.