A PEMBROKE DOCK man who assaulted two women has been handed a community order and banned from contacting one of the victims.

Ryan Brundrett appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court on Monday (Jun 8) after admitting two charges of assault by beating.

The court heard that on October 3, 2025, at Pembroke Dock, Brundrett assaulted Ceri Laville and Sonia Duffin.

Magistrates were told Brundrett changed his plea on the day of trial, receiving limited credit for his guilty pleas.

He was sentenced to a community order lasting until June 7, 2027.

As part of the order, Brundrett must complete 250 hours of unpaid work and up to ten days of rehabilitation activity.

The court also ordered Brundrett to pay £100 compensation to Ceri Laville, along with £325 prosecution costs and a £114 surcharge.

A restraining order was imposed preventing Brundrett from contacting Ceri Laville directly or indirectly until June 7, 2027. He is also banned from entering any property where she lives and prohibited from posting anything on social media or public forums referring directly or indirectly to her.

No restraining order was made in relation to Lewis Laville, with magistrates ruling this was not necessary or proportionate.

No compensation order was made for Sonia Duffin as the court heard the parties had reconciled.

A TENBY man who was caught with a hunting knife at Withybush Hospital has been handed a community order.

Sion Williams, aged 50, of Flat 2, St Stephens, The Croft, Tenby, appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court on Monday (Jun 8) for sentence.

Williams had denied possessing a knife blade or sharply pointed article in a public place, but was found guilty after trial on May 18.

The court heard that on December 13, 2025, Williams had a hunting knife with him at Withybush General Hospital, Fishguard Road, Haverfordwest, without good reason or lawful authority.

Magistrates imposed a community order running until June 7, 2027.

Williams must complete 75 hours of unpaid work and take part in up to 15 days of rehabilitation activity.

He was also ordered to pay £650 prosecution costs and a £114 surcharge.

The hunting knife was ordered to be forfeited and destroyed.

A BBC WALES investigation has uncovered an unregulated online market where women desperate to become parents are being harassed for sex and offered cheap, illegal sperm samples through social media.

Swipe Right for Sperm, a new BBC Cymru Wales programme, has found that people unable to access fertility treatment are turning to online groups, informal donor websites and so-called “Tinder for sperm” platforms.

The investigation found some men advertising sperm donations online and charging for samples outside licensed fertility clinics.

In one case, the programme team paid £100 for a next-day delivery sample from a man advertising his “baby batter” online. The sample was posted chilled beside a frozen carton of tomato passata.

The advert told women they could “rely” on a man calling himself Joe Donor, who claims to have fathered 180 children around the world through both sex and artificial insemination.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority said unregulated donation, outside an HFEA-licensed clinic, can be a criminal offence in the UK.

Joe Donor disputed the authority’s position and said he understood private donation, including charging for it, to be legal.

Tianna and her wife Nikki, from south Wales, told the programme they turned to unregulated donation after finding they were not eligible for NHS funding and could not afford private fertility treatment.

Tianna said: “I always knew I wanted to be a mum. We knew that there was something missing from our family.”

She said women using such websites were often placed in a vulnerable position.

She added: “You do get weirdos who are in it for the complete wrong reasons. There’s a website, it’s kind of like a mixture between a catalogue and Tinder. You can filter eye colour, hair colour, so you can look for exactly what it is you’re looking for.”

The couple wanted artificial insemination, but said some men repeatedly pushed sex as the best option.

Tianna said: “I think it was really helpful that me and my wife had each other, so there was no way that anyone could really pressure us into doing something we didn’t want to do.

“When all you want to have is a baby, you’re in a really vulnerable position.”

Tianna and Nikki eventually found a donor they felt safe with through a co-parenting website. They drew up an agreement setting out plans for contact and parental rights, but such arrangements are not legally binding.

Tianna said: “There is still a chance that in the future, he could come and try and start claiming parental rights and take us through a court case.”

Clare Ettinghausen, from the HFEA, said: “Some of these donors are advertising as natural insemination only, which is essentially in some cases coercing women to have sex when they possibly wouldn’t want to.”

Presented by Gemma Dunstan, BBC Wales Investigates: Swipe Right for Sperm airs tonight, Monday (June 8), at 8:30pm on BBC One Wales, and on Thursday, June 18, at 10:00pm on BBC Two.

The programme is also available on BBC iPlayer.