Category Archives: Pembrokeshire

Gareth Harries – Milford Haven

10 Wednesday Mar 2021

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July 2008

RAF man tried to blame wife after he killed baby daughter

An RAF technician who shook his baby daughter to death then blamed his wife for the killing was jailed for six years and eight months today.

Gareth Harries, 25, attacked eight-month-old Chloe when she would not stop crying.

He initially blamed his wife Hayley for their baby’s death, but admitted the culpable homicide of the infant during his trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.

The incident took place in November 2006 at the home he shared with his wife in Lossiemouth, where Harries was based.

Jailing Harries, Judge Lady Dorrian said today it was clear he must have used ‘significant force’.

She told him: ‘You used such force on a helpless baby. The consequences of that will be with you for the rest of your life.

‘I recognise that by pleading you have spared the need for your wife to give evidence, which would clearly have been traumatic for her.

‘However, it reflects very sadly on you that you waited until this stage to do so and even worse that you previously maintained a defence of incrimination, blaming your wife for the death of her own child, which must have made the traumatic effect of the child’s death even worse for her.’

Lady Dorrian said she took into account that Harries had expressed ‘deep and genuine remorse’ for his actions and also that he had not intended to harm his daughter.

But she added there was ‘no alternative’ but to impose a custodial sentence.

Harries, from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, was originally charged with murdering Chloe. But he later admitted a lesser charge of culpable homicide, and killing his daughter by repeatedly shaking her.

Jake Roberts – Cilgerran

02 Tuesday Mar 2021

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Cilgerran teen faces charges of making indecent images

A teenager has been committed for sentence at Swansea Crown Court after pleading guilty to three charges of making indecent photographs of children.

Jake Roberts, aged 19, of 3 Maesllawddog, admitted making 13 indecent photos of Category A – the most extreme category – 15 Category B photographs and 36 Category C photographs.

All the offences – contrary to sections 1 (1) (a) and 6 of the Protection of Children Act 1978 – were said to have been committed at Cilgerran between March 10, 2016 and July 2, 2020 when the defendant appeared before Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire magistrates at Aberystwyth Justice Centre.

Roberts was committed to Swansea Crown Court for sentence on March 17 and released on bail subject to not to have any unsupervised contact with any child under the age of 16.

Peter Jones – Haverfordwest

06 Sunday Dec 2020

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Haverfordwest man found guilty of downloading FGM videos

A Haverfordwest man has been found guilty of downloading videos of young females suffering female genital mutilation.

The case of Peter Ashley Jones, aged 41, of Portfield, was heard at Swansea crown court on November 24.

Jones was accused of possessing seven videos showing images of FGM and male circumcision, which the prosecution argued contain indecent images of Class A.

He was also accused of possessing indecent images of children

Jones entered pleas of not guilty on July 25.

Jones is due to be sentenced on December 17.

Barry Sullivan – Fishguard

16 Wednesday Sep 2020

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Fishguard man jailed for sexually assaulting girl

A Fishguard man who sexually assaulted a young girl has been jailed for seven years.

Barry Daniel Sullivan, 29, of no fixed abode, was found guilty of two charges of sexually assaulting a child under 13, following a trial at Swansea Crown Court on August 20.

He was also sentenced for assaulting an emergency worker, two charges of criminal damage and cannabis possession.

The offences took place in November 2019.

Sullivan was sentenced to a total of seven years in prison and placed on the sexual offenders register indefinitely.

He was also ordered to pay a £170 surcharge.

David Badham – Milford Haven

17 Friday Jul 2020

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July 2020

Businessman’s ‘paedophile tendencies’ exposed by undercover police operation

A seemingly respectable businessman spent months engaged in disgusting online chat with what he believed to be a schoolboy.

David Richard Badham repeatedly told the boy in very graphic terms he wanted sex with him and asked him to travel to Carmarthen so they could meet and “play” in the back of his van.

But the 52-year-old was actually communicating with a police officer who was part of an operation designed to catch paedophiles.

Swansea Crown Court heard Badham’s online activities have cost him his good name, “his business, and his family”. Stephen Rees, prosecuting, said Badham was caught in an undercover operation run by police in Northern Ireland.

Between January 2019 and June 2019 the defendant engaged in highly sexualised conversations with someone he believed to be a 14-year-old boy.

The court heard Badham sent a series of graphic messages describing what he wanted to do to the boy and what sex acts he wanted the boy to perform on him.

Despite the contact telling him he was aged just 14 the defendant requested photographs of his genitals and sent him videos of a man, believed to be the defendant himself, performing a sex act.

In one of the June messages Badham told the boy he wanted him catch a train to Carmarthen so the pair could “play” in the back of his Volkswagen van, telling the young teen to wear shorts but no underwear. Following these exchanges Badham was arrested on July 16 last year.

Badham, of Mount Pleasant Way, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempting to cause a child to watch sexual activity for the purposes of sexual gratification and four counts of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity. 

Giving the defendant a one-third discount for his guilty pleas the judge sentenced him to a total of 16 months in prison suspended for two years and ordered him to complete the Horizon sex offenders programme, a rehabilitation course, and 150 hours of unpaid work.

Badham will be a registered sex offender for the next 10 years and was made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order for the same length of time.