A PORTHMADOG teenager stole £10,500 from his 86-year-old next-door neighbour to fund his gambling addiction, a crown court has heard.
Steven Connor, 18, a college student, of Meadow Drive, Porthmadog, was locked up for 28 months, after admitting burglary and theft at Caernarfon Crown Court. Prosecuting counsel James Coutts said the pensioner only became aware of 92 withdrawals from cash machines after a routine meeting with her bank manager.
Money had been taken in April and May at Porthmadog and Dolgellau, where Connor was a student, mainly late at night.
A BALA couple have described how they nearly lost their café business after receiving an energy bill for nearly £50,000.
The Cyfnod Café was hit with an electricity bill of £49,200, despite the fact that Eleri Dolben Evans and her husband Gareth were paying about £1,000 a month up front to British Gas.
The couple said they were at their wits’ end and faced closing their business, after British Gas insisted the bill was correct because of a shortfall built up over several years.
A FISH and chip shop owner will appear in crown court accused of seven hygiene charges relating to a “rat infestation”.
David Taylor, of The Chip Box 3, in Eastgate, Aberystwyth, has pleaded not guilty to seven charges under the Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations, including failing to have adequate procedures to control pests and failing to protect against contamination of food, making it unfit for human consumption.
A DISGRUNTLED tenant of an Aberystwyth hotelier went on the rampage with an axe causing thousands of pounds of damage at her holiday centre.
Lindsay Colin Turner, 57, used an axe to smash gate posts, a plastic shed, an oil tank, and windows and pictures at Pentre Farm, near Capel Bangor (pictured), which is owned by Nerys Evans of the Marine Hotel. Mrs Evans was not present at the site, which is near Lovesgrove, at the time of the incident.
A TEENAGE quad bike rider died while competing in a motocross event near Bwlchllan, Lampeter, on Sunday.
Daniel John Roch, 19, of Templeton, Pembrokeshire, who was described as “a rising young star” of the sport, is understood to have died at the scene.
TRIBUTES have been paid to a hugely popular former students’ union president at Lampeter’s university who died in a motorbike accident in Kenya on Sunday.
Harun Ombaye Getui, 31, received fatal injuries in the crash in his home city of Nairobi having recently opened a bakery business there.
Mr Getui was formerly a well-known figure at the university and in Lampeter town itself, and became the students’ union’s first international president in 2004.
