MAN JAILED FOR SHOCKING THREATS AND STALKING
A man known as “the hardest man in Port Talbot” was given a prison sentence after making threats involving eye removal and stalking a female council worker.Clayton Jones, aged 41, who was once based in Briton Ferry but currently has no fixed address, received a sentence of three-and-a-half years at Swansea Crown Court.
The court was informed that in January, Jones made alarming phone calls to the Forge mental health centre, in which he demanded money and threatened to kill staff and himself.
He told one employee he would remove her eyes and slit her throat, claiming it would be “worth doing a 12-year stretch for.” His actions later included intimidating staff at Port Talbot Civic Centre, where he issued grotesque threats and then stalked a female worker visiting her home early in the morning, speaking with her daughter, and sitting outside her residence.
Judge Paul Thomas KC described Jones’s threats as “the most lurid of threats to kill” and noted that his conduct had a lasting effect on his victim.
Jones pleaded guilty to making threats to kill, committing a public order offence, and stalking.
He is set to serve half of his sentence in custody before being eligible for release on licence.
