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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Colette Hume

    Educating Cardiff teacher admits sexually assaulting teenage girl (opens the original)

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    A teacher who featured in the Channel 4 documentary series Educating Cardiff has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl. Gareth Ritter, 44, of Bryngwyn, in Monmouthshire, was in the middle of giving evidence in his defence when his barrister asked for the charge to be put to him again. Ritter, who was also a prominent member of a number of brass bands, was asked to stand up and, when asked how he pleaded, he said "guilty". He was told all of the charges he had admitted carried

  2. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Colette Hume

    Appeal of teens' 'unduly lenient' sentences for racist Barry murder rejected (opens the original)

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    Judges have rejected a bid to increase the jail sentence of two teenagers who murdered a man delivering groceries to his mother in an unprovoked racist attack. Marcus Staniforth, 18, had been found guilty of Kamran Aman's murder and received a sentence of 17 years in prison, while a 16-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons had received a sentence to 15 years in prison. Their sentences had been referred to the Court of Appeal to see if they had been unduly lenient. The court found the tr

  3. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Colette Hume

    Tonteg girl's death left her parents shattered - but she saved two lives (opens the original)

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    A couple whose daughter died from a cardiac arrest brought on by an epileptic seizure say she has saved "lives in her death". Beth and Malcolm Owen's daughter Menna, 18, donated her heart and lungs after she collapsed at the family's home in Tonteg, Rhondda Cynon Taf, on 1 March 2025, dying in hospital. The couple have since received letters from the man and woman who Menna saved, with both doing "incredibly well". "Perhaps Menna's purpose was to make an incredible difference to us every day of

  4. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Colette Hume

    Christopher Phillips kept mum's body in dining room freezer in Porthcawl for years 'couldn't let her go' (opens the original)

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    A man who kept his dead mother in a chest freezer in the living room of the family home for nearly three years and continued to collect her pension and benefits has been sentenced to two years and four months. Christopher Phillips, 60, was arrested after the body of Sylvia Phillips, 89, was found by officers in February at Poplar Crescent, Porthcawl, Bridgend county. Phillips had told doctors he "did not want to let her go" and "wanted more time" after her death. Sylvia Phillips was discovered w

  5. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Colette Hume

    Eleri Ellesmere, 3, drowned in Majorca swimming pool on holiday (opens the original)

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    A three-year-old girl drowned in a swimming pool during a family holiday in Majorca, an inquest has heard. Eleri Ellesmere was discovered unresponsive in the water at their private villa near the town of Pollensa on the evening of 24 June. The toddler was taken by ambulance to the Spanish island's main hospital, 44 miles (70km) away in the capital, Palma. She died there the following day. A full inquest will be held in April next year. The inquest opening on Monday heard Eleri and her family, fr

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