Overview
- Matthew Hardy received a life sentence for the ferocious murder of flatmate Antony Derwent in Gwersyllt after taking over his home, with the court noting the victim’s vulnerability.
- Grandparents Michael and Kerry Ives were jailed for life for murdering their two-year-old grandson, with minimum terms of 23 and 17 years, as Ethan’s mother Shannon Ives received 12 years for causing or allowing his death.
- Dean Mears was jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years and 128 days for stamping Catherine Flynn to death in her Rhyl home.
- Former Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill was sentenced at the Old Bailey to ten and a half years after admitting eight bribery counts for taking cash to make pro-Russian statements as an MEP.
- Other major terms included life for Joanna Katarzyna Wronska with a minimum of 15 years and four months, nine years for Thomas Iveson for manslaughter with an extended licence, eight years for Paul Ince for manslaughter, and prison terms for knifepoint robbers Gareth Bird and Ricky Jones.