Evans The Crime
@evansthecrime.bsky.social
🏴 🇪🇺 Ridiculously proud to be the crime and court reporter on my hometown newspaper, the South Wales Evening Post. Biscuits, tea, and Neath RFC.
Well, this is all very exciting isn’t it. The Weekend Kitchen Table of Crime is now open for all your newsmongering needs.
Get the kettle on.
Get the kettle on.
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Well, this is all very exciting isn’t it. The Weekend Kitchen Table of Crime is now open for all your newsmongering needs.
Get the kettle on.
Get the kettle on.
Time to direct my feet to the Swansea Crown Court / Llys y Goron Abertawe side of the street.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Time to direct my feet to the Swansea Crown Court / Llys y Goron Abertawe side of the street.
If you are an international supervillain looking for a new clifftop lair which is just a 10 minute walk away from a cafe selling brilliant coffee and custard slices, I can recommend the old coastguard station in Mumbles / Mwmbwls.
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
If you are an international supervillain looking for a new clifftop lair which is just a 10 minute walk away from a cafe selling brilliant coffee and custard slices, I can recommend the old coastguard station in Mumbles / Mwmbwls.
A photograph for the ages. Simply brilliant.
(📸 Andy Harnik)
(📸 Andy Harnik)
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A photograph for the ages. Simply brilliant.
(📸 Andy Harnik)
(📸 Andy Harnik)
My front page story for Thursday’s South Wales Evening Post - A man who raped a vulnerable girl threatened to kill her unless she withdrew the complaint against him.
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
My front page story for Thursday’s South Wales Evening Post - A man who raped a vulnerable girl threatened to kill her unless she withdrew the complaint against him.
My front page story for Wednesday’s South Wales Evening Post - Three recreational users of cocaine with no previous convictions who started dealing the drug have been handed lengthy prison sentences.
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My front page story for Wednesday’s South Wales Evening Post - Three recreational users of cocaine with no previous convictions who started dealing the drug have been handed lengthy prison sentences.
My front page story for Tuesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A man has been jailed for three years for manslaughter after killing a man with a single punch outside a Swansea / Abertawe pub.
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My front page story for Tuesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A man has been jailed for three years for manslaughter after killing a man with a single punch outside a Swansea / Abertawe pub.
Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen presenting his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty with a Lego pyramid set. Got to love Mr Abdelatty’s reaction.
(📸 Lars Løkke Rasmussen)
(📸 Lars Løkke Rasmussen)
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen presenting his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty with a Lego pyramid set. Got to love Mr Abdelatty’s reaction.
(📸 Lars Løkke Rasmussen)
(📸 Lars Løkke Rasmussen)
Can’t beat a bit of Gower / Gŵyr on a Sunday afternoon. Port Eynon / Porth Einon looking tidy today.
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Can’t beat a bit of Gower / Gŵyr on a Sunday afternoon. Port Eynon / Porth Einon looking tidy today.
🫒 Delighted with this year’s crop. Supplies of Kitchen Table of Crime Welsh Olive Oil are likely to be limited, so please understand if I have to set a limit on how many bottles each person can have.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🫒 Delighted with this year’s crop. Supplies of Kitchen Table of Crime Welsh Olive Oil are likely to be limited, so please understand if I have to set a limit on how many bottles each person can have.
Fifty shades of Swansea / Abertawe grey.
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Fifty shades of Swansea / Abertawe grey.
Mumbles lighthouse and Bracelet Bay.
October 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Mumbles lighthouse and Bracelet Bay.
Sunday morning be like
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Sunday morning be like
My front page story for Wednesday’s South Wales Evening Post, and Western Mail - A wife and the former solider she was having a secret affair with have been convicted of conspiring to murder the woman’s husband.
October 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
My front page story for Wednesday’s South Wales Evening Post, and Western Mail - A wife and the former solider she was having a secret affair with have been convicted of conspiring to murder the woman’s husband.
🏴 Cofiwch Aberfan / Remember Aberfan
Fifty-nine years ago today 116 children went to class never to return to their families after a coal spoil tip collapsed and engulfed the school. The tragedy also claimed the lives of 28 adults.
One of the darkest days in Wales’ history. Never forgotten.
Fifty-nine years ago today 116 children went to class never to return to their families after a coal spoil tip collapsed and engulfed the school. The tragedy also claimed the lives of 28 adults.
One of the darkest days in Wales’ history. Never forgotten.
October 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🏴 Cofiwch Aberfan / Remember Aberfan
Fifty-nine years ago today 116 children went to class never to return to their families after a coal spoil tip collapsed and engulfed the school. The tragedy also claimed the lives of 28 adults.
One of the darkest days in Wales’ history. Never forgotten.
Fifty-nine years ago today 116 children went to class never to return to their families after a coal spoil tip collapsed and engulfed the school. The tragedy also claimed the lives of 28 adults.
One of the darkest days in Wales’ history. Never forgotten.
My front page story for Wednesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A former soldier who is now in charge of protecting UK energy infrastructure from terrorism and cyber threats drunkenly beat up a man in a Swansea / Abertawe bar.
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My front page story for Wednesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A former soldier who is now in charge of protecting UK energy infrastructure from terrorism and cyber threats drunkenly beat up a man in a Swansea / Abertawe bar.
FT Neath 7-10 Beddau. Cracking game at the Gnoll, and a really good atmosphere. Two well-matched teams going toe-to-toe with the visitors snatching victory with the last kick of the game. #WelshAllBlacks
October 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
FT Neath 7-10 Beddau. Cracking game at the Gnoll, and a really good atmosphere. Two well-matched teams going toe-to-toe with the visitors snatching victory with the last kick of the game. #WelshAllBlacks
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.
October 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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.
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.
October 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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.
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)
October 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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)
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
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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
My front page story for Tuesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A man who falsely claimed to be qualified electrician did “shoddy and potentially dangerous” work on customers’ houses, a court has heard. A judge told the defendant he was the “epitome of a rogue trader”
September 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My front page story for Tuesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A man who falsely claimed to be qualified electrician did “shoddy and potentially dangerous” work on customers’ houses, a court has heard. A judge told the defendant he was the “epitome of a rogue trader”
My front page story for Monday’s South Wales Evening Post - The self-styled “hardest man in Port Talbot” threatened to rip people’s eyeballs out and eat them.
September 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My front page story for Monday’s South Wales Evening Post - The self-styled “hardest man in Port Talbot” threatened to rip people’s eyeballs out and eat them.
Hats (periwig) off to @barristersecret.bsky.social for The Cut Throat Trial - a most superior courtroom thriller. Smart, insightful, accessible and deftly plotted it effortlessly transports you right into the grit, graft and grandeur of a trial. Unputdownable.
September 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Hats (periwig) off to @barristersecret.bsky.social for The Cut Throat Trial - a most superior courtroom thriller. Smart, insightful, accessible and deftly plotted it effortlessly transports you right into the grit, graft and grandeur of a trial. Unputdownable.
My front page story for Saturday’s South Wales Evening Post - A man who carried out a “savage and merciless” murder of a woman in her Swansea / Abertawe flat has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years and 114 days.
September 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My front page story for Saturday’s South Wales Evening Post - A man who carried out a “savage and merciless” murder of a woman in her Swansea / Abertawe flat has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years and 114 days.