:00:13. > :00:17.The father of Wales footballer Gareth Bale's fiancee has
:00:18. > :00:21.in the last hour been sentenced to six years in prison by a court
:00:22. > :00:24.in the United States - after admitting money laundering
:00:25. > :00:27.Martin Rhys-Jones, who's from Cardiff,
:00:28. > :00:36.It's thought 52-year-old Martin Rhys-Jones moved
:00:37. > :00:39.from the Welsh capital to Spain back in 2005, from where he set
:00:40. > :00:42.about conning hundreds of investors into buying worthless shares
:00:43. > :00:49.Rhys-Jones operated the scam from the Spanish city of Barcelona.
:00:50. > :00:53.An illegal telemarketing operation was used to convince investors
:00:54. > :00:56.in the UK and Canada to buy the shares.
:00:57. > :01:00.Around 250 people lost money altogether with the amounts ranging
:01:01. > :01:10.Some of the money was laundered through a bank
:01:11. > :01:14.Rhys-Jones was arrested in 2012, and in 2013 he was extradited
:01:15. > :01:19.It was the same year his daughter, Emma, watched her partner,
:01:20. > :01:22.Gareth Bale, become the most expensive footballer in the world
:01:23. > :01:29.She met Bale at Whitchurch High School in Cardiff and the couple now
:01:30. > :01:44.Tonight their grandfather is in prison. Earlier at Buffalo federal
:01:45. > :01:49.court he was sentenced to six years and ordered to pay almost $2.9
:01:50. > :01:54.million in compensation, the amount of victims lost in the scam. -- the
:01:55. > :01:56.out his victims lost. An 18-year-old man has appeared
:01:57. > :01:58.in court charged with the kidnap and rape of a 62-year-old woman
:01:59. > :02:01.at a beach in Abergele. The incident is alleged to have
:02:02. > :02:03.happened at Pensarn beach Jack Karl Thomas Williams,
:02:04. > :02:09.from Rhyl, was remanded Traffic could be re-introduced
:02:10. > :02:13.to pedestrianised areas of Bridgend town centre -
:02:14. > :02:15.to provide better The council wants to reopen
:02:16. > :02:18.Queen Street, Dunraven Place and A 20 mph speed limit would be
:02:19. > :02:22.imposed and two new pedestrian There's been a call for the age
:02:23. > :02:26.of criminal responsibility to be The Plaid Cymru Assembly Member
:02:27. > :02:30.Steffan Lewis says children should not be criminalised at such
:02:31. > :02:32.a young age. But his comments have been
:02:33. > :02:34.criticised by a Conservative MP, A glimpse inside a secure
:02:35. > :02:40.children's home in Neath. This is where some of the country's
:02:41. > :02:42.most complex dysfunctional Some here have committed
:02:43. > :02:47.crimes like robbery, Right now the criminal age
:02:48. > :02:52.of responsibility starts at ten. But Plaid Cymru's spokesperson
:02:53. > :02:56.on criminal justice believes that if Wales had the power to change it,
:02:57. > :03:00.the age should be raised to 12. There are very good
:03:01. > :03:04.practical reasons to do so. It's not just the fact
:03:05. > :03:07.that the United Nations says it should be a minimum of 12 years
:03:08. > :03:10.of age as best practice globally. Also we need to look at what happens
:03:11. > :03:13.when we criminalise children. The evidence suggests that
:03:14. > :03:18.if we criminalise people at a young age they tend to lead their lives
:03:19. > :03:24.in adulthood of criminality. He says this isn't about stopping
:03:25. > :03:27.the most serious offenders being It's about early intervention
:03:28. > :03:33.to ensure the majority of children never enter the justice system
:03:34. > :03:35.in the first place. But one MP believes the system can
:03:36. > :03:40.actually help rehabilitate children. If you put people through
:03:41. > :03:42.the criminal justice system then you have the ability to absolutely
:03:43. > :03:45.enforce support mechanisms. It's not about putting
:03:46. > :03:49.people into prison. Very few children under the age
:03:50. > :03:53.of 16 go into custody. It's very, very rare
:03:54. > :03:55.for that to happen. But what you are able to do is make
:03:56. > :03:59.sure absolutely that social services are involved
:04:00. > :04:02.and that there are methods to ensure that these
:04:03. > :04:07.children become aware that their actions
:04:08. > :04:11.have consequences. At the moment the UK Government has
:04:12. > :04:14.no plans to alter the age of criminal responsibility,
:04:15. > :04:17.and Wales has no power to do so. Proposals to devolve youth
:04:18. > :04:19.justice were made in 2014, but they weren't supported by
:04:20. > :04:22.the UK Government and didn't make it into the Wales Bill
:04:23. > :04:26.on further devolution, which is currently making
:04:27. > :04:30.its way through Parliament. Football, and Wrexham are up
:04:31. > :04:33.to tenth in the National League after beating York by 2-1
:04:34. > :04:38.at the Racecourse. Overnight the odd spot of rain
:04:39. > :04:41.or drizzle over western Tomorrow mostly cloudy to start
:04:42. > :04:45.with perhaps some drizzle, but becoming sunnier
:04:46. > :04:47.through the day. Thank you for watching -
:04:48. > :04:59.from all of us on the