Evans The Crime
@evansthecrime
🏴 🇪🇺 Ridiculously proud to be the crime and court reporter on my hometown newspaper, the South Wales Evening Post. Biscuits, tea, and Neath RFC.
Well, this is all very exciting isn’t it. The Weekend Kitchen Table of Crime is now open for all your newsmongering needs. Put the kettle on.
Having a Levantine breakfast at Swansea Market from the lovely people at Treat & Eat - fresh manakeesh with homemade labneh, and a cup of sweet, minty tea with mint grown in the owners’ garden. Delicious.
South Wales Police is introducing new body armour for all its general purpose police dogs which will provide “advanced ballistic protection”. Here’s PD Sonny modelling the new body armour.
My front page story for Thursday’s South Wales Evening Post - A Llanelli child rapist who subjected a young girl to years of sexual abuse has been given a 23-year sentence as an offender of particular concern.
I can confirm that the bacon rolls in the newly reopened cafe at Swansea Crown Court / Llys y Goron Abertawe are tidy.
Time to direct my feet to the Swansea Crown Court / Llys y Goron Abertawe side of the street.
My front page story for Monday’s South Wales Evening Post - A Carmarthenshire / Sir Gâr family made more than £250,000 from illegally breeding and selling puppies.
My front page story for Friday’s South Wales Evening Post - A “Jack-the-lad” roofer from Neath / Castell-nedd scammed elderly homeowners out of tens of thousands of pounds for “abysmal” and “worthless” work on their properties.
My front page story for Tuesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A former junior doctor from Llanelli had videos of toddlers being raped on his phone and chatted about child sexual abuse with like-minded people on Telegram.
My front page story for Saturday’s South Wales Evening Post - A convicted murderer out of prison on licence was caught dealing ketamine and cannabis. When police found a stash of drugs in his Swansea / Abertawe flat he offered to reveal where they could find “a lot more” in return for “immunity”.
My front page story for Thursday’s South Wales Evening Post - A van driver attacked a man with a hockey stick and a blade before running over his dog and killing it.
My front page story for Monday’s South Wales Evening Post - The boss of a company offering bogus medical examinations to drivers applying for bus and lorry licences has been jailed for four years.
Well, this is all very exciting isn’t it. The Weekend Kitchen Table of Crime is now open for all your newsmongering needs. Get the kettle on.
My front page story for the Llanelli Star - A flat was left “like a murder scene” after a woman launched a bloody knife attack on an old school friend.
My front page story for Friday’s South Wales Evening Post - A man headbutted and throttled his partner before pulling a knife on her in a "sudden explosion of anger".
My front page story for Thursday’s South Wales Evening Post - A "brazen" shoplifter assaulted staff before pushing a trolley full of hundreds of pounds worth of alcohol out the door. Just days earlier he’d threatened to stab a security guard at a different shop while stealing a trolley full of stock
My front page story for Wednesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A man who torched his cousin’s flat then carried out a knifepoint robbery at a Swansea / Abertawe shop has been made subject to a Mental Health Act restriction order after a judge found he poses a “significant danger to the public”.
My front page story for Tuesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A scrap man driving the streets spotted a family packing their car ready to go off on holiday and returned a few days later to burgle their home.
My front page story for Monday’s South Wales Evening Post - A firm has been £500,000 for selling “lamb” kebabs to restaurants and takeaways which largely consisted of fat, skin, and “lower grade 'meat' products that cannot be called meat as per the legal definition".
My front page story for Saturday’s South Wales Evening Post, and Western Mail - A DVLA employee manipulated vehicle records on behalf of dodgy car dealers and others to disguise true history of vehicles, including issuing new identities for stolen cars and removing details of crashes and past owners
My front page story for Thursday’s South Wales Evening Post - A Resolven RFC player punched a committee member unconscious in a clubhouse attack.
My front page story for Monday’s South Wales Evening Post - A college lecturer with a “warped sexual interest” sent colleagues an explicit child sex abuse video.
Welsh Wine Week, you say? Don’t mind if I do. The Dell Vineyard Yr Afanc 2025 (ND John Wines, £22.45). Clean and fresh, with more elderflowery goodness than you can shake a wine stick at. Delicious.
My front page story for Thursday’s South Wales Evening Post - A former electrician at Port Talbot steelworks was running a cocaine and cannabis edibles supply operation. Darren Phillips was intercepted by police en route to a customer with thousand of pounds worth of coke in his car.
After a decade of hunting without success for the Brexit unicorn, five of the most pointless people in Britain get together to whinge about how it’s all somebody else’s fault. What a treat.
Well, this is all very exciting isn’t it. The Bank Holiday Monday Kitchen Table of Crime is now open for all your newsmongering needs. Get the kettle on.
Saturday’s South Wales Evening Post - A Swansea cocaine dealer who skipped bail and fled to France more than five years ago has been jailed after returning to the UK. When in France he was caught dealing again and sent to a notorious drugs prison where he was beaten and abused by fellow inmates