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Evans The Crime

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 Ridiculously proud to be the crime and court reporter on my hometown newspaper, the South Wales Evening Post. Biscuits, tea, and Neath RFC.

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · Oct 24

If you like drinking tea, eating biscuits, and reading court stories, why not make yourself a cuppa, grab a packet of biscuits, and head over to my Facebook page where you can do just that. ⤵️

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 11h

A woman known as "the woman with the German keys" whose body was found on a remote Dutch beach in 2004 has become the fourth woman to be named through an international police campaign called Operation Identify Me. (By Alice Cuddy for BBC News)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Woman in Dutch beach cold case named after 21 years

An Interpol-led operation has identified German citizen Eva Maria Pommer after a police tip-off.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 12h

Not really. Clearly two different stories. You’d have to try really hard to think they were one.

Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 13h

My front page story for this week’s Llanelli Star - A man beat and throttled his partner, stripped her naked, and then rubbed her face in a cat litter tray and tried to make her eat it in a “sadistic” attack.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 22h

Does this make it more or less likely that the US will now attack Venezuela?

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 1d

Day four of the trial of Michelle Mills, Geraint Berry, and Steven Thomas for conspiracy to murder Mills’ husband, Christopher. Today we heard about text messages between the alleged conspirators.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Wife's 'delete all' text to lover after alleged botched murder

Michelle Mills is accused of plotting with Geraint Berry and Steven Thomas - ex-servicemen who she met through her work with a veterans charity - to murder her husband Christopher

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 2d

My front page story for Wednesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A former solider targeted in an alleged murder plot has described how his fought for his life when masked men with guns attacked him in his caravan in Carmarthenshire / Sir Gâr.

Front page of the South Wales Evening Post newspaper. Headline reads “Husband fought off caravan intruders”

Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 2d

The estate of Paddington Bear’s creator and the company which produces the Paddington films are suing the makers of a Spitting Image YouTube series which depicted the loveable bear as a foul-mouthed, cocaine-taking podcast host. (Via @deadline.com)
deadline.com/2025/10/padd...

Paddington Vs Paddington: StudioCanal Sues Avalon After ‘Spitting Image’ Depicted Marmalade-Loving Bear As Potty-Mouthed Podcast Host

StudioCanal and Michael Bond's estate are suing Avalon after a 'Spitting Image' sketch depicted Paddington Bear as a foul-mouthed podcaster.

deadline.com

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 2d

A woman from Cardiff / Caerdydd and a Polish woman who claims to be missing Madeleine McCann have gone on trial accused of stalking the McCann family.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Woman told in court 'you are not Madeleine McCann'

The court heard how Julia Wandelt, 24 - who believed she was Madeleine - called and messaged Kate McCann '60 times' in a single day

www.walesonline.co.uk

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 3d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 3d

My front page story for Tuesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A wife, her ex-Marine lover, and another solider have gone on trial accused of planning the murder of the husband (a former solider who now works for Help for Heroes)

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 3d

Of all the things that aren’t happening, this isn’t happening the most.

Daily Express @express.co.uk · 3d

🔴 Football fans boycott Sky after the former England star blamed 'middle-aged white men' for dividing Britain

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2...

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 3d

Important thread ⬇️

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3d

The judicial oath:

I [name], do swear by Almighty God that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign King Charles the Third in the office of [judicial role], and will do right to all manner of people after the law and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or ill will.

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 3d

Police say two men have been arrested in Northamptonshire in connection with a burglary at St Fagan’s museum near Cardiff / Caerdydd during which items of gold Bronze Age jewellery were stolen.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Police update after alleged four-minute burglary at top attraction

South Wales Police have confirmed a 'significant' development in their investigation

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 3d

I’m blogging from the trial of a wife accused of conspiring with her ex-Marine lover and another soldier to murder her husband (who is himself a former solider who now works for Help for Heroes). You can follow the trial here ⬇️
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Man said he could make husband's death look like accident, court hears

The defendants are alleged to have staged a raid on the couple's caravan to murder Christopher Mills

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 4d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 4d

Chaos in the Crown Court today as two unrepresented defendants with the exact same name appeared in a hearing in a large multihanded case… one over a link from prison and one in the dock from bail. No one knows how the random same-named man was linked in to us from his prison but he was NOT happy.

two spidermans are pointing at each other in a cartoon

ALT: two spidermans are pointing at each other in a cartoon

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 4d

If you are offered pieces of gold Bronze Age jewellery by a bloke down the pub, police in St Fagan’s would appreciate a call following a burglary at the National Museum Of History.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Police investigate break in at much-loved national museum

Museum officials after expressed their shock at the 'targeted attack'

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 4d

A wife, her former-Marine lover, and another solider have gone on trial accused of planning to murder the woman's ex-squaddie husband, a court has heard.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

'Wife conspired with former soldiers to murder her ex-squaddie husband'

The defendants are alleged to have staged a raid on the couple's caravan to murder her husband - but the intended victim fought back

www.walesonline.co.uk

Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 4d

A press photographer who was manhandled in the street while taking pictures of a hunt meeting has taken out a private prosecution saying “after months of inaction” police did not bring a charge.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Photographer's private prosecution sees woman fined

The photographer said he took legal action himself after 'months of inaction' from police. The force said it was investigating a complaint

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 5d

This is so breathtakingly, startlingly obvious - let alone the right thing to do - you have to wonder why Labour aren’t doing it. It’s a no-brainier.

Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 5d

The closer than the Tories get to Reform, the more it makes sense for Labour to leave them to it and head back towards the centre. Stop bashing immigrants 24/7 and concentrate on the important stuff.

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 5d

My front page story for this weekend’s South Wales Evening Post - A Llanelli man beat his partner black and blue with a variety of different weapons, throttled her, ripped her clothes off, bit a chunk out of ear, and then rubbed her face in a cat litter tray and tried to make her eat it

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 5d

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 6d

The so-called “QAnon shaman” Jacob Chansley who took part in the storming of the Capitol on Jan 6 and was pardoned by Trump is now suing Trump for $40 trillion and is claiming to be the rightful commander-in-chief. (Via @the-independent.com)
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion

The QAnon Shaman withdrew his support for Trump after the president refused to release the Epstein files

www.independent.co.uk

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 6d

Great Western Railway has been fined £1m for health and safety breaches after a woman from Penarth was killed when she stuck her head out of the window of a moving train.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

£1m fine after Welsh woman killed putting her head out of train window

Bethan Roper, who was 28, died while returning home to Wales on a train with friends from a day out shopping in Bath. She placed her head outside a window and was struck by an overhanging tree branch ...

www.walesonline.co.uk

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