Wales - Crime in the News

• Alcohol attacks doubled

  A hospital in south Wales has research that shows the proportion of alcohol-related assaults has almost doubled over the past ten years. [03 December 2008]

• Drive to clamp down on dangerous driving

  Officers are undertaking a week-long operation to catch drivers using mobile phones.[10 November 2008]

• Six arrested over sex attack

  Six people are being questioned in relation to a sex attack on a woman in a Pembroke alley. [13 October 2008]

• Man attacked on train

  A 55-year old man has been attacked on a train while travelling with his family from Cardiff to Mountain Ash.[30 September 2008]

• Girl drowns at mother's hands

  While hearing testimony, a court listened as a mother talked about how she held her disabled daughter under water in a bath until she had died. [16 September 2008]

• Man arrested for sexual assault

  A 68-year old man has been arrested after a 17-year old girl was sexually assaulted in Swansea.[1 September 2008]

• Drug gang murderers jailed

  Three gang members who killed a man who looked after a cannabis factory for them have been jailed for a total of 23 years. [11 August 2008]

• Bowling to beat crime

  Throughout the month of July, Crimestoppers teamed up with the Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association (TBPA) to promote the charity through a ‘111' competition. [5 August 2008]

• Man arrested as Antigua victim Ben Mullany dies

  Honeymoon shooting victim Ben Mullany died yesterday after he was flown back to a Swansea hospital. [4 August 2008]

• Reward offered to find honeymoon killer

  A £67,000 reward is being offered to find the killer of Catherine Mullany, who was killed on her honeymoon in Antigua. [31 July 2008]

• Six questioned over honeymoon murder

  Six people are being questioned by police over the shooting of a Welsh couple on their honeymoon in Antigua. [29 July 2008]

• Thanks a Million!

  Crimestoppers has received its one millionth actionable call at its 24:7 call centre. The call was about a knife crime. [29 July 2008]

• Landlord uncovers cannabis factory

  A landlord discovered £80,000 worth of cannabis plants in a house he rented out to people he thought were restaurant owners. [14 July 2008]

• Shadow CS anti-gun and knife week continues

  Following the recent high profile reports of gun and knife crime among young people in the media, Crimestoppers' youth website www.shadowcs.co.uk for 11-16 year olds is running an anti-gun and knife week this week. [1 July 2008]

• Children and man's death in car remains a mystery

  Investigations are still under way into the death of two children and a man who were found in a Land Rover off a hillside road in Conwy Valley. [16 June 2008]

• Speed limits around schools in Wales could be cut

  The assembly government is talking about cutting speed limits around schools to 20mph to improve road safety. [10 June 2008]

• Attempted beach murder man charged

  Sydney Rogers has been charged with the attempted murder of a man he stabbed on a beach in North Wales. [3 June 2008]

• Statistics show safer railways in Wales

  Crime has fallen on railways in Wales, according to statistics from the British Transport Police. [28 May 2008]

• Dentist fraudster is jailed

  A dentist and his wife have been jailed for stealing more than £30,000 from the NHS. [22 May 2008]

• Police investigate cause of elderly couple's death

  The bodies of an elderly man and woman were discovered at a residence on Frogmore Street, Abergavenny on Sunday. [12th May 2008]

• Four men remanded over detective murder

  Four men have been remanded in custody accused of murdering a private detective in 1987. [24th April 2008]

• Bangor student died in revenge attack

  A student from Bangor died in a fight when returning home from a night out in Liverpool, where he was in his final year at university. [17th April 2008]

• Wrexham rapist too dangerous to leave jail

  A top north Wales prosecutor has said that a sex attackerwho abducted and raped a 15-year old girl is too dangerous to ever be freed from prison. [11th April 2008]

• Family ignored dying heroin overdose girl

  The mother and half-sister of a 16-year old girl put her to bed and watched TV when they knew she'd taken a heroin overdose. [4th April 2008]

• Bogus police burglars

  People in South Wales are being warned about a spate of distraction burglaries, a number of them by men posing as police officers. [12th March 2008]

• Benefit fraud mayor

  The town mayor of Pembroke has stepped down, after he faces a court appearance over benefit fraud. [12th March 2008]

• Man arrested in Wales for German murder

  A man has been arrested in South Wales in connection with the murder of a woman in Germany six years ago. [11th February 2008]

• Two people arrested for Pontypridd murder

  A 22-year old and a 17-year old have been arrested for the murder of Anthony Ivor Rees, who was found dead in his home last Thursday. [11th February 2008]

• Dyfed-Powys safest place in the UK

  New figures from the Home Office have revealed that the Dyfed-Powys area in Wales was matched only by Cumbria for having the lowest murder rate in the UK. [1st February 2008]

• Ambulance theft

  A thief has stolen an ambulance from a driveway, while paramedics were attending a 999 call in Cefn Glas Brigend. [31st January 2008]