Two thugs who tied up and tortured a man in scenes like a Tarantino film, a man who stamped on a woman and brothers who left their victim with a broken nose were all jailed last month.
Judges believed their sentencing powers meant they had to put the culprits behind bars.
Here is a summary of some of these cases from North Wales courts in November.
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Wayne Butler
Stephen Dixon
Two men tied up and tortured a naked man over drugs in a 12-hour ordeal in scenes ‘like something out of a Tarantino horror film’, a court heard today. Wayne Butler pulled out four of the victim's teeth with a door hinge and carved his then girlfriend’s name Molly on his forehead with a knife.
Both Butler and his co-accused Stephen Dixon threw darts at the victim and kicked him in a flat last summer. They demanded money, sending "horror" photos to the victim's brother, and police were called. The victim believed he would have been killed if officers hadn’t discovered him or be found "dead in a river" if he revealed who tortured him, Mold Crown Court heard.
Wayne Anthony Butler, 37, of Plas Y Wern, Ruabon and Dixon, 51, of Great Oak Street, Llanidloes, admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent and false imprisonment in the incident in Llanidloes on July 17. A judge at Mold Crown Court said it was sadistic and jailed them for ten and a half years, and six years, respectively, for the GBH offence.
Philip Jones
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A husband damaged the door of his ill wife’s locked bedroom with a breeze block. Philip Jones, 61, told his wife of 37 years he just wanted to be friends.
Their marriage had deteriorated and she was ill, with the pair sleeping in separate bedrooms. She had been afraid of the defendant, the court heard, who had already been prosecuted for affray.
Jones, of Endsleigh Road, Old Colwyn, Colwyn Bay , admitted common assault against her on the night of the breeze block incident and causing criminal damage to the door. A judge jailed him for one month for the assault and activated a six-month jail term which had been suspended after the earlier incident, making a sentence of seven months imprisonment in total.
Justin Faddes
Shayne Faddes
A man was left with a broken nose and multiple other injuries after two brothers attacked him during a night out. Justin Faddes, of West Kinmel Street in Rhyl, and his older brother Shayne Faddes, of Wellinton Road in Rhyl, both appeared before a judge at Mold Crown Court.
They had each admitted to assaulting a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm. Prosecuting, Thomas McLoughlin, showed the moment the men attacked Michael Hartley on Water Street in Rhyl back in April 2022.
Derryn Grief
A would be robber confronted a shop worker with a broken glass bottle, a court heard. Derryn Grief, 28, had the weapon in the incident in Prestatyn.
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Police arrested him days later but he had to be Captor sprayed. He assaulted an officer and damaged a police vehicle. Grief admitted attempted robbery, assaulting an emergency worker and other offences.
A judge at Mold Crown Court jailed him for a total of 34 months. The court heard he went to Aldi in Prestatyn on October 19 and stole whisky worth £9.99.
Peter Lee
A drunk driver led police on a chase at up to 70mph through housing estates. Peter Jason Lee, 48, was only stopped by a stinger device which even halted a pursuing police car, with other patrol cars taking over.
He was captured when the long chase through Llanddulas and Betws-yn-Rhos in Conwy ended in Ronald Avenue in Llandudno Junction. A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court jailed him for 14 months for dangerous driving and a further month for being drunk in charge of a vehicle on a separate occasion.
Lee, of Fifth Avenue, Talacre, Flintshire, was also banned from driving for five years plus the 32 weeks he is expected to serve in prison. Prosecutor Amy Edwards told how a member of the public had reported seeing a car stationary for almost two hours on October 16 last year.
Michael Griffiths
A man "rampaged" around his sister's house holding a hammer handle in a family dispute. Michael Griffiths, 21, was looking for her partner who was out.
But he still injured his sister's hand as she tried to take the weapon off him, and a laptop and a door were damaged. His co-accused Jordan Dykins, 25, stayed outside the house with a baseball bat, Mold Crown Court heard.
Both men admitted causing an affray at the property in Bagillt that Saturday afternoon on August 8. A judge jailed Griffiths for 12 months but gave Dykins a suspended sentence.
Robert Hughes
A man banned from seeing his former partner became angry when she told him his horse had died. Robert Hughes took issue about where the pet had been buried and turned up "furious" the next day.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard Hughes, 51, had been prohibited from contacting his ex Julia Barker in 2009 and arriving at her home following the horse's death was one of four breaches of that restraining order. Hughes admitted making the breaches by harassing his ex.
A judge Mr Recorder Wyn Lloyd Jones jailed the defendant for 12 months for the breach at her home and for nine months for each of the remaining three breaches, to run concurrent to the main sentence.
Darren Roberts
A man punched and stamped on his former partner, breaking her leg and leaving her with a limp. Darren Roberts' victim needed her left ankle to be re-aligned three times and a metal plate and screws.
The victim Lisa Owen said she has never experienced pain like it and was left going to the toilet using a commode. The assault happened after Roberts, Ms Owen and friends had been on a night out and returned to her home.
Roberts, 36, of Llawr Pentre, Old Colwyn, admitted causing Lisa Owen grievous bodily harm. A judge at Mold Crown Court today jailed the defendant for 16 months.
Prosecutor Karl Scholz said HGV driver Roberts and Ms Owen had been in a relationship for about five years. He would become argumentative in drink.
Shannon Evans
A man repeatedly slammed his ex-girlfriend's head and throttled her so violently she passed out when she broke his phone after a row about contact with his child. A drunk Shannon Tristan Evans, of High Street in Blaenau Ffestiniog launched the sickening attack on his former partner over a row about access to his daughter.
Prosecutor Richard Edwards told Caernarfon Crown Court that the couple had split just after the birth of their daughter but remained in contact so that he could remain a part of her life. The court heard, however that the woman was told by social services to cut contact with the defendant a week before the attack.
On September 30, after the woman ignored text messages from Evans' to arrange to see his daughter and "give their relationship another go", he turned up drunk at her house and began arguing with her. During the argument, Evans' phone was knocked to the ground and broken causing Evans to see red.
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