Crime
Motorist denies drug-driving 14 times over limit

A NARBERTH motorist has denied driving through Templeton when his blood reading for a cocaine derivative was 771 mcg. The prescribed legal limit is 50.
The Crown claims that Shane Clews, 35, drove his Ford Focus along the A4115 on January 16 with a high reading of benzoylecgonine in his blood.
But this week his solicitor, David James, informed District Judge Mark Layton, who was sitting at Haverfordwest magistrates court, that the reading was the result of Clews’ prescribed medication.
The matter was adjourned to September 12 when Clews’ trial will take place at Llanelli Magistrates Court. Clews, of Spring Gardens, Narberth, was released on unconditional bail.
Crime
Mother accused of murdering six-year-old son set to appear in court

A MOTHER accused of murdering her son and attempting to kill her father is set to appear in court next month.
Karolina Zurawska, 41, of Cwm Du Close, Gendros, Swansea, is charged with the murder of her six-year-old son, Alexander Zurawski, whose body was discovered at a property in Swansea in August last year. She is also accused of attempting to murder her father, 67-year-old Krzysztof Siwi, on the same occasion.
Zurawska was due to appear at Swansea Crown Court on Monday but was not produced from custody. A plea hearing has now been scheduled for March 3. She remains in custody.
Following Alexander’s death, his family described him as a “very kind child”. They said: “Alexander was always well-behaved and never naughty. He was very clever and very mature for his age. He had great understanding of facts. Alexander was always helpful, always eager to assist with cooking and cleaning.
“Alexander spoke both English and Polish and would often correct his parents with their English if they got words wrong. He was amazing.”
Crime
Woman ‘humiliated and embarrassed’ after alleged childhood rape

A COURT has heard how a woman was left feeling ‘humiliated and embarrassed’ after being allegedly raped by a man when she was just nine years old.
“I feel so humiliated,” the victim told a jury sitting at Swansea Crown Court on Monday.
“He told me that if I ever told anybody, they wouldn’t believe me and I wouldn’t have any friends. I took his word for it.
“I was so scared that I used to wet the bed. And I knew why I was doing it…it was because I was scared.”
Gary Hicks, is accused of raping the female sometime between July 7, 1987, and December 31, 1989, when she was aged between 9 and 11.
This week Hicks, 63, appeared before a jury where he denied the charge.
The Crown claimed that at some point between 1987 and 1989, Hicks entered an upstairs bedroom in the house in the Milford Haven area where the child was living at the time of the alleged offence.
“She’d fallen asleep on the floor and Gary Hicks entered the room and laid her on her front,” said Daniel Jones, KC, for the Crown.
“She felt the defendant lift her hips and he penetrated her vagina with his hands from behind.”
Mr Jones claimed the assault lasted ‘a few minutes’.
“Gary Hicks said that if she ever told anyone about the abuse, she would not be believed and she’d have no friends,” he said. “‘Who was going to believe a young girl over a grown up?”
However when the child reached adulthood, she began telling people in confidence. These included her psychotherapist in 1993, her GP in 2006, a work colleague, and close members of her family. Finally, in the early hours of October, 2022 the victim made a call to Dyfed-Powys Police claiming that Gary Hicks had raped her when she was a child.
Hicks, formerly of Milford Haven, who now resides in Oregon Way, Luton denies the charge of rape.
His trial is expected to continue throughout this week.
Crime
Garage boss to stand trial for rape at Swansea Crown Court

A PEMBROKESHIRE garage owner will stand trial after denying a charge of rape.
Ceri Morgan, 61, is accused of raping a woman in Haverfordwest between November 30 and December 31, 2009.
Morgan appeared at Swansea Crown Court, where he pleaded not guilty.
Judge Paul Thomas KC set a trial date for September 29. Morgan, of Cardigan Road, Haverfordwest, was re-bailed with conditions.
His bail conditions include remaining at his home address, adhering to a 7:00pm–7:00am electronic curfew, avoiding contact with the complainant, and surrendering his passport at Haverfordwest police station.
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