STORY
A Court of Appeal panel has today extended the sentence of Jordan Crewe (27), from Caerphilly, after Solicitor General Lucy Rigby KC MP referred his case under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. Crewe was originally sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on 18 February 2025 to two years’ custody for a series of offences against his former partner, including harassment, strangulation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and controlling or coercive behaviour. He was also made subject to a 12-year restraining order.
In March 2022, while on licence from that first sentence, Crewe forced his way into his ex-partner’s home, attacked her and slashed her tyres. Even after being recalled to prison, he continued to send abusive letters, texts and phone calls, and unwarranted location-tracking messages. He later escalated his campaign by sharing videos simulating suicide, groping and biting his victim in public, and threatening her family on New Year’s Eve, culminating in a physical assault in her car.
Delivering judgment, the Court of Appeal agreed with the Solicitor General’s intervention, noting the “systematic campaign of violence and coercive control” and the profound psychological harm inflicted. Crewe’s custodial term was raised by ten months, to two years and ten months’ imprisonment. Solicitor General Lucy Rigby KC MP said:
“Jordan Crewe’s tirade of abuse against his ex-partner was appalling. He carried out a systematic campaign of violence and coercive control. Thankfully the Court has recognised the severity of Crewe’s actions and increased his sentence.”