Jason Evans
Court and Crime Reporter at South Wales Evening Post
Proud to be the court and crime newsmonger on my hometown paper, South Wales Evening Post @walesonline. Biscuits, tea, and Neath RFC.
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1 day ago |
walesonline.co.uk | Jason Evans
People jetting back to the UK are being urged to "just say no" if they are asked to put anything in their suitcases. It follows the case of former Cardiff City footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas who duped two people into smuggling drugs into the UKHolidaymakers are being urged to be aware of people asking them to carry items back into the UK in their luggage.
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2 days ago |
walesonline.co.uk | Jason Evans
Former Cardiff City player Jay Emmanuel-Thomas acted as a 'middle-man' in a plot to smuggle £600,000 of cannabis into the UK from Thailand, and used his partner as an unwitting courierA footballer recruited his girlfriend to act as an unwitting courier in a £600,000 cannabis importation operation, a court heard.
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2 days ago |
walesonline.co.uk | Jason Evans
Former Cardiff City footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas is being sentenced today, June 5, for arranging the smuggling of £600,000 worth of cannabis into the UK. The 34-year-old recruited two women to travel to Thailand where the cannabis was collected before they flew back to this country. The unwitting couriers - who believed their luggage contained gold - were stopped by Border Force officers at Stansted Airport after getting off a flight from Bangkok in September last year.
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3 days ago |
walesonline.co.uk | Jason Evans
The driver of a van seen in the area was tracked down - and gave a terrible explanation for how the waste ended up at the beauty spotA van driver has been fined after waste from a bathroom refurbishment project was found fly-tipped near a picnic area and beauty spot, a court has heard. The driver was located after detective work by council officersThe defendant has been fined £153 but been ordered to pay another £1,500 in prosecution costs.
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3 days ago |
walesonline.co.uk | Jason Evans
Kieran Pritchard's car was stopped by police but it led officers to search his home as wellThe discovery of counterfeit tobacco in the back of a man's car led police to discover he was a cocaine dealer, a court has heard. Officers found scores of packages of counterfeit tobacco in Kieran Pritchard's car which he said he was buying cheaply from abroad and selling on. An investigation showed he had also been dealing cocaine over the previous 18 months.
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