Tredegar man punched ex after she refused to take cocaine A MAN punched his ex-girlfriend and scrammed her face after she had taken pity on him. Convicted drug dealer Ryan Thomas, 25, attacked his former partner when she took him in following her concerns over his crack cocaine use. Julia Cox, prosecuting, said the defendant had lashed out at the woman after he had tried unsuccessfully to get her to take the class A drug. By attacking his ex, Thomas was in breach of a suspended prison sentence for possessing cannabis with intent to supply in 2019. Cardiff Crown Court heard how the couple had been in a four-year relationship which had recently ended.
Paedophile leading secret double life in Wales offered to film girls school Christmas concert
Peter Croasdale, 58, was living under a new identity when he was asked by an unsuspecting teacher to film a performance at Haberdashers Monmouth School
Convicted paedophile Peter Croasdale, 58, was invited to film a Christmas play at a girls school by an unsuspecting teacher (Image: Gwent Police)
A convicted paedophile living under a new identity was asked by an unsuspecting teacher to film a Christmas play at a girls school.
Peter Croasdale, 58, was living a double life and living with a new partner in Monmouth having been convicted of assault by penetration of a girl under 13 at Leeds Crown Court in 2009.
Peter Croasdale AN EX-BBC producer condemned as a “dangerous” paedophile tried to con a private school’s headteacher into allowing him to film schoolgirls at a Christmas concert. Serial sex offender Peter Croasdale attempted to “hoodwink” Monmouth’s Haberdashers’ to allow him to record a carol service. The 58-year-old gave the school a bogus name and tried to charge the then head Jennifer Phillips £450 to film a performance. Croasdale was jailed for more than four years in 2009 for sexually abusing a young girl, taking an indecent photograph of a child, voyeurism and possessing indecent photographs of children. When police arrested the ex-Radio 4 producer for his recent crimes in Monmouthshire, they caught him with disturbing child abuse images on his computer.
University lecturer sexually assaulted student as she walked home from the pub
Kary Thanapalan, 49, was a lecturer at the University of South Wales when he followed a student in Treforest, Pontypridd, and proceeded to forcefully kiss her and grope her
University lecturer Kary Thanapalan, 49. sexually assaulted a woman as she walked alone late at night (Image: South Wales Police)
A university lecturer followed a student walking home from the pub and sexually assaulted her as she pleaded with him to leave her alone.
Kary Thanapalan, 49, persistently pursued his victim as she tried to evade his grasp but he put his arms around her on multiple occasions and groped her.
A BBC producer paedophile on the sex offenders register began a secret life under a fake name in Wales, where he agreed to a £450 gig to film a Christmas concert at a private girls school.
Disgraced Peter Croasdale, 58, had been ordered to tell police of his address after he was released from prison after being jailed for four-and-a-half years in 2009 for sexually abusing a girl under 13.
But the former Radio 4 producer secretly moved 160-miles from the north of England to live under an alias in Wales.
He started a new life under the name Peter Alan by winning over locals, joined a male voice choir and even moved in with a teacher.