DRUG dealers, burglars and abusive partners were amongst the Wrexham and Flintshire criminals brought to justice in October.
The Leader has looked back at some of the court cases that have been featured in the paper this month following hearings at the county’s Crown Court building.
These are some of the criminals who were sentenced by Mold Crown Court in October:
NAME: Mark Harrison
AGE: 33
CRIME: Arson and assaulting a police officer
SENTENCE: Three-and-a-half years in prison and a five-year restraining order against ex-partner
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID: "She heard bottles falling outside and it is good fortune that sound was caused because it caused her to look outside.
"What the consequences of that fire could have been, had her attention not been drawn, we can only imagine.”
NAME: Liam Roy Macdonald
AGE: 33
CRIME: Supply Class A drugs
SENTENCE: 40 months in prison
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID: Recorder Duncan Bould said it was "perfectly clear" Macdonald was street dealing and had his "eyes wide open" as to what he was doing.
NAME: Ramone Nelson
AGE: 28
CRIME: Supply of Class A drugs
SENTENCE: Two years in prison
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID: “You indicate that one of your motives for selling drugs was to gain money to provide for your daughter, now 17-months-old.
“I am sure you now appreciate the fault in this decision. “There were any number of other ways you could have provided for her.”
NAME: Ryan Hamid
AGE: 28
CRIME: Supply of Class A drugs
SENTENCE: Eight years, six months in prison
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID: “There's no shred of evidence you were being directed by your co-accused or any other - you were running your own organised criminal group.
"You had a large customer base, which you exploited for your own greed."
Hamid was sentenced alongside five other gang members – with a sixth awaiting her sentence later this year. These include:
• James Morris (six years, three months in prison)
• Daniel Delaney (four years, eleven months in prison)
• Stuart Ashton (four years, six months in prison)
• Wade Doolan (four years, three months in prison)
• Shaun Baxter (three years, six months in prison)
NAME: Richard Howard
AGE: 44
CRIME: Assault / Controlling and coercive behaviour
SENTENCE: Two-and-a-half years in prison and a 10-year restraining order against ex-partner
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID: “For the fourth time and with the fourth different partner you have demonstrated your contempt for women. This is a case about bullying and control.”
NAME: Marc Nathan Williams and Harry James Povey
AGE: Williams (23) and Povey (19)
DATE: Tuesday, October 13
CRIME: Burglary
SENTENCE: Williams (Three years and nine months in prison) and Povey (Two years and three months in prison)
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID: It was a ‘significant’ number of burglaries with a ‘degree of sophistication and planning’ involved into what is always ‘deeply unsettling offences’.
NAME: Thomas Flynn
AGE: 24
CRIME: Burglary
SENTENCE: Four years and two months
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID: “This was a targeted and professionally planned burglary of someone's house seeking gold.”
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NAME: Adam Fradj
AGE: 21
CRIME: Drug offences
SENTENCE: Three and a half years
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID: “You were plainly dealing for gain.”
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Name: Luke Gilham
Age: 43
CRIME: Police chase
JAIL SENTENCE: One year and four months and disqualified from driving
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID: “You drove seemingly oblivious to the risk you posed by driving at speed."
Jail for Flint dad who led police on chase through town with child in car
NAME: Rikki Dulson
AGE: 30
CRIME: Making a threat with a bladed article, harassment and criminal damage
SENTENCE: 21-months and restraining order
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID: “You're a dangerously obsessive individual.”
Wrexham man 'bombarded former partner with messages and threatened to stab her neighbour'
NAME: Adam Edwards
AGE: 33
CRIME: Criminal damage and ABH
SENTENCE: 18 months
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID: "It was a cowardly attack and it continued when she was on the ground."
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