Newport Crown Court

For the courthouse on the Isle of Wight, see Newport Law Courts, Isle of Wight.

Newport Crown Court is a Crown Court venue which deals with criminal cases at Faulkner Road in Newport in South Wales.

Newport Crown Court
Newport Crown Court
Location	Faulkner Road, Newport
Coordinates	51.5884°N 3.0050°W / 51.5884; -3.0050
Built	1991
Architectural style(s)	Modern style
Shown in Newport

History

Until the early 1990s, judicial hearings in Newport were held in the west wing of Newport Civic Centre.^[1] However, as the number of court cases in southeast Wales grew, it became necessary to commission a dedicated courthouse for criminal matters. The site chosen was a sloped and landscaped area to the immediate southeast of the Civic Centre.^[2] Construction of the new building commenced in 1989. It was designed in the modern style, built in Portland stone at a cost of £10.9 million,^[3] and was completed in 1991.^[4][5][6]

The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of seven bays facing onto Faulkner Road. The central bay featured a long flight of steps leading up to a hexagonal porch. The wings, of three bays each, featured a series of piers which supported a concrete roof with was cantilevered forward. The building was laid out to accommodate three courtrooms^[7] which were designated for the use by the County Court (civil cases) as well as the Crown Court (criminal cases).^[8]

Notable cases included the trial and conviction of Carl Mills, in July 2013, for the murder of three generations of one family,^[9][10] the trial and conviction of Andrew McCann, a former member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, in November 2015, for "using threatening, abusive and insulting words or behaviour",^[11] the trial and conviction of Joseph Jeremy and Lewis Aquilina, in March 2022, for the murder of a 26-year-old man during a street robbery,^[12][13] and the trial and conviction of Simon Parks, in November 2022, for the murder of his mother-in-law.^[14]

References

1. "Crown Courts, Civic Centre, Newport (304460)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
2. "Newport Civic Centre". Geograph. 1987. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
3. "Capital Building Programme". Hansard. 26 January 1996. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
4. Holland, Edward; Holder, Julian (1 March 2019). "Report for Cadw: Advice to Inform Post-War Listing in Wales" (PDF). p. 105. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
5. Mulcahy, Linda (2010). Legal Architecture: Justice, Due Process and the Place of Law. Taylor and Francis. p. 187. ISBN 978-1136862199.
6. Mulcahy, Linda; Rowden, Emma (2019). The Democratic Courthouse: A Modern History of Design, Due Process and Dignity. Taylor and Francis. p. 156. ISBN 978-0429558689.
7. "Daily Court Status: Newport Crown Court". Ministry of Justice. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
8. "Justice in Wales for the People of Wales" (PDF). The Commission on Justice in Wales. 1 October 2019. p. 355. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
9. "Carl Mills found guilty on all three counts of murder of three generations of the Buckley family in Coed Eva, Cwmbran". South Wales Argus. 18 July 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
10. "Cwmbran triple murderer Carl Mills sentenced to at least 30 years". The Times. 18 July 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
11. "Former Hells Angel avoids jail for wielding hammer in Newport street fight". South Wales Argus. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
12. "Two guilty of murdering 26-year-old father Ryan O'Connor from Newport". ITV News. 16 March 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
13. "Newport: Second man guilty of Gucci bag murder". BBC News. 15 March 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
14. "Newport man jailed for life for murdering mother-in-law in her bed". Nation Cymru. 17 November 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2023.

External links

• Court information