Anti-vax vandal, a male escort conman and the other most bizarre North Wales crimes of 2022

People commit a variety of crimes everyday across the region. Those who ensure justice is served in the courts see every side of that.

It can be difficult to shock the court staff and our reporters who hear the daily goings on in court. However, North Wales Live have published stories on multiple cases where we were sometimes left double checking our notes (and ears) to make sure that these things actually happened.

Below, we've put together some of the most uniquely bizarre crimes that came to courts across North Wales this year.

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Carwyn Roberts:
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Carwyn Griffith Roberts(Image: North Wales Police)
A man pretended to be three different people to control his ex-partner's life - even convincing her she was pregnant with his twins. Carwyn Griffith Roberts, of Llanaelhaearn in Gwynedd, pretended to be a lawyer and a doctor in a bid to control the woman's life.

His web of lies relied on a series of emails coming from his characters, with one convicting his partner that the purchase of a dream house in the Bangor area was being handled and another offered her a completely made up job with the local authority. The most disturbing came from a fictional doctor who determined

Even though his intentions were to give his partner the best life possible, his deceit ended up with things spiralling too far out of control. He was jailed for two years.

Philip Hughes:
Police blocked off Salop Road, Wrexham after Philip Alun Hughes (inset) was knocked off his bike after committing a robbery nearby.
Police blocked off Salop Road, Wrexham after Philip Alun Hughes (inset) was knocked off his bike after committing a robbery nearby.(Image: NORTH WALES POLICE / NORTH WALES LIVE / HADYN IBALL)
After pulling off a not-so sophisticated robbery of the shop right across the road from his home, Philip Alun Hughes pocketed around £200 in mostly coins from the till of Wrexham's Mini Mart in September last year. However, his getaway was far from smooth.

Topless and cycling away from the scene of the crime, Hughes was found less than an hour after the robbery on nearby Salop Road having been knocked off his bike following a collision with a green Nissan XTrail near the Lidl store. his pockets were "stuffed" with "about £100" in coins and various piles of copper and silver coins were found around the area he fell.

He was soon linked to the robbery reported nearby and charged. After a trial at Mold Crown Court, a judge locked him up for three years and banned from going into the Mini Mart.

Alexander Edwards:
A man cut a hole in his neighbour’s hedge to get a better view of the mountains. This was just part of a wider - and bizarre - campaign of harassment against his next-door neighbour Ian Cox.

Llandudno Magistrates Court heard this also included Edwards shining a torch at his neighbour’s CCTV camera, singing rap music and goading dogs into barking at midnight or 1am. The neighbourly dispute was originally his mother's but, when Edwards came to live with her in Conwy, he became "embroiled" in that feud.

District Judge Gwyn Jones told Edwards in the dock: "Whatever the rights and wrongs of this matter, you conducted a series of little acts which caused harassment to your neighbour. It was anti-social behaviour."

As well as imposing the 12-month community order and ordering unpaid work, the District Judge made a four-year restraining order banning the defendant from contacting or approaching Mr Cox directly or indirectly.