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Colette Hume

Wales

Senior Journalist at BBC

BBC journalist and presenter, mountain walker and sea kayaker. Please get in touch if you have a story. Views are my own.

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  • 2 months ago | aol.com | Colette Hume

    A policeman accused of posing as a gas engineer to enter a woman's home and quiz her about her sex life made out she was a "nuisance", a court has heard. Luke Silver, 34, told a fellow police officer investigating the claims against him that the woman was a "consistent or a nuisance caller", Cardiff Crown Court heard.

  • 2 months ago | msn.com | Colette Hume

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  • Jan 22, 2025 | yahoo.com | Colette Hume

    An inmate has been found guilty of throwing a cup of faeces over a prison officer in revenge for losing his job in the jail's servery. Courtney Matthew, 34, previously claimed the substance was melted Maltesers and water, bought from the prison shop at Parc Prison in Bridgend. But the jury at Cardiff Crown Court found him guilty of administering a noxious thing with intent to aggrieve or annoy, contrary to the 1861 Offences against the Person Act.

  • Nov 19, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Colette Hume |Nathan Bevan

    A man's DNA was found on the underwear of the 71-year-old woman he is accused of murdering in a frenzied attack, a court has heard. Brian Whitelock, 57, allegedly used a knife, table leg and items of shelving to kill his neighbour, retired riding instructor Wendy Buckney, in Clydach, Swansea in August 2022. However, the origin of a trace amount of sperm cells discovered by separate vaginal swabs taken from Ms Buckney, who was found naked and covered in a jacket, had proved inconclusive.

  • Nov 19, 2024 | yahoo.com | Colette Hume |Nathan Bevan

    A man's DNA was found on the underwear of the 71-year-old woman he is accused of murdering in a frenzied attack, a court has heard. Brian Whitelock, 57, allegedly used a knife, table leg and items of shelving to kill his neighbour, retired riding instructor Wendy Buckney, in Clydach, Swansea in August 2022. However, the origin of a trace amount of sperm cells discovered by separate vaginal swabs taken from Ms Buckney, who was found naked and covered in a jacket, had proved inconclusive.

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Colette Hume
Colette Hume @ColetteNews
26 May 24

Alarm (ssss) are set. See you on @BBCRadioWales Breakfast tomorrow morning from 0700. https://t.co/WbsVPKFgqE

Colette Hume
Colette Hume @ColetteNews
21 Apr 24

Absolutely DELIGHTED Lloyd Martin who has Downs Syndrome completes the London Marathon in 6.46 with mum Ceri becoming the youngest person EVER to run a marathon in category of runner with intellectual impairment, creating a new Guinness World Record @SpecialOlympics @MencapCymru https://t.co/pCWbofTBB0

Colette Hume
Colette Hume @ColetteNews
21 Apr 24

Wonderful Lloyd Martin and his mum Ceri are running @LondonMarathon today and hoping to become a Guinness World Record holder (youngest with an intellectual imp to run a marathon.) Good luck Lloyd! Runner 321 if you want to follow him. https://t.co/KTn0LBmjCS