内容摘要：Mr Sandhu said: "The defendant then subjected Mr Connolly to an immediate and sustained attack with the knife."

Mr Sandhu said: "The defendant then subjected Mr Connolly to an immediate and sustained attack with the knife."

"It was a brazen disregard for the law."The McDonaghs, from Sandfields in Port Talbot, first targeted a restaurant called The River House in Swansea in August 2023.

They ordered the most expensive items on the menu, running up a bill of £267, before running off without paying.They got away with it that time - or so they thought - and went on to target Golden Fortune in Port Talbot, La Casona in Skewen and Isabella's in Porthcawl.Then, in April 2024, the couple visited the

They ordered T-bone steaks and double pudding portions, racking up a bill of £329, before - once again - leaving without paying.The restaurant's owners, who at the time described the situation as "destroying", reported what happened to the police and shared a CCTV image of the couple on Facebook.

The post gained enormous attention and social media sleuths started their own investigations, putting pressure on police who confirmed they were investigating the couple over "a number of reports of making off without payment from several businesses".

Within days, the couple were arrested and in May 2024 theyIn a speech, he said the party had came "within a whisker" of winning the North Tyneside mayoral contest in a Labour heartland and had "frightened the life out of the governing Conservatives" in Northumberland.

The count had faced a delay owing to a discrepancy between previously announced vote and turnout figures.Initially announced as 31%, the turnout was later confirmed to be 33%, the

Elsewhere, the Conservatives remain the biggest party on Northumberland County Council. The council remains under no overall control.