Overview
- Judges at Mold and Caernarfon Crown Courts issued multiple prison sentences in December across cases spanning Wrexham, Gwynedd and beyond.
- Benjamin Griffiths was jailed for 44 months for robbing a 67-year-old at Wrexham’s Heddfan hospital car park before crashing her car into a Tesco delivery van.
- Billy Bowen received a nine-year sentence after tying up an 88-year-old and stealing his wallet containing sentimental photographs, an offence a judge condemned as “truly despicable.”
- Thomas Baker used his car as a weapon in Bethesda, returning after an earlier altercation to run over a man who was left unconscious with a serious head injury.
- Enforcement highlights included a 16-month term for Jamie Cowell’s restraining-order breach and assault, a 30-week sentence for a DAPO breach, 21-month terms for two HMP Berwyn drug smugglers detected by a sniffer dog, and a 34-month sentence for courier Steven Barton stopped on the A55.