Pembroke Dock: Pensioner jailed for life for child abuse

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11 years ago

June 6, 2015

A 75-YEAR-OLD Pembrokeshire man who abused three children over a 15-year period has been jailed for life.

Reginald Henry Turner, from Pembroke Dock, carried out the sexual assaults between the early 1990s and 2008, Swansea Crown Court heard on Friday (June 5).

He was found guilty on 15 May of 20 charges of historical sex abuse involving three different girls who were as young as six.

Turner must serve a minimum of almost nine years before applying for parole.

Judge Huw Davies QC said he continued to represent a danger and had expressed no remorse.

The offences included four counts of rape involving two separate girls, indecent assault, indecency with a child and sexual touching.

The court heard his three victims were not connected to each other and “they had no reason whatsoever to make up the allegations against him”.

Patrick Griffiths, prosecuting, said Turner was arrested after one of the complainants, who is now a teenager, went to the police in 2013.

When the media covered his first magistrates’ court appearance, other victims came forward.

Mr Griffiths told the court one victim said: “From the age of five she never felt safe. She still suffers with nightmares.”

He summarised a second victim’s statement: “The abuse started when she was a young, innocent child. She feels her innocence was taken off her. She gets flashbacks to what happened to her as a child.”

Hakin motorist banned after driving 14 times over drug limit

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15 hours ago

June 9, 2026

Sarah-Jane Absalom

A HAKIN motorist has been banned from driving for three years after being caught behind the wheel with cocaine and benzoylecgonine in his system.

Mark Briskham, 53, of Waterloo Square, Wellington Road, Hakin, was stopped by police on January 5 as he drove a Ford Kuga along Steynton Road, near Milford Haven.

Blood tests carried out at the police station showed he had 800mcg of benzoylecgonine in his system. The legal limit is 50mcg.

He also had 64mcg of cocaine in his system. The legal limit is 10mcg.

Briskham pleaded guilty to two drug-driving charges when he appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court this week.

Magistrates disqualified him from driving for three years, taking into account a previous drug-drive conviction from 2020.

He was also fined £120 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £48 surcharge.cr

Begelly man remanded over alleged May Day assault

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15 hours ago

June 9, 2026

Sarah-Jane Absalom

A PEMBROKESHIRE man has been remanded in custody following an alleged May Day assault against a woman in Begelly.

Tomas Baker, 34, of Ty Dee, New Road, Begelly, is accused of assaulting the woman, causing actual bodily harm, at an undisclosed location in Begelly on May 1.

Baker appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court this week by video link from Swansea Prison.

He pleaded not guilty to the charge.

His trial will take place at Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court on June 22.

Waterston man denies child rape and sexual assault charges

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15 hours ago

June 9, 2026

Tom Sinclair

A WATERSTON man has appeared before magistrates charged with 13 sexual offences against children, including three allegations of raping a girl under the age of 13.

Chaisee Price, 25, of Biggins Hill, Waterston, Milford Haven, appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court this week.

He faces three charges of raping a girl under 13, eight charges of sexually assaulting girls aged between five and eight, and two charges of intentionally inciting girls under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

The offences are alleged to have taken place between 2014 and 2019.

Price denied all charges.

Because of the seriousness of the allegations, magistrates declined jurisdiction and the case will now proceed to Swansea Crown Court on July 10.

Price was released on conditional bail.

The conditions include a daily electronically monitored curfew between 6:00pm and 6:00am, no contact with the prosecution witness, no unsupervised contact with children under 18, and a requirement to surrender his passport to police.