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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Three years ago a fraudster named Alyson Perrett accused us of fake news when we revealed she'd conned families into paying thousands for fake bookings at a Welsh holiday park. This week she finally admitted the scam in court, and wasn't as talkative when we caught up with her.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Exclusive: A physician associate is under investigation after allegedly attempting seven lumbar punctures on an autistic woman and then falsifying records of the procedure. PA is also alleged to have ignored instructions that the patient be given diazepam. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Currently “reviewing the report”. I’m not optimistic of meaningful action. NDCS has banked on regulatory weakness and continued to contract firms that don’t pay a minimum wage.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Haydn Thomas was 19 years old when he worked at Vantage (the same office where I went undercover) After bosses lured him in with the prospect of earning £150,000 a year, he worked almost every waking hour, while making as little as £100 a week. He sold his car to make ends meet.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This is 15-year-old Ieuan Williams and his dad Lee. Ieuan is one of 21 patients exposed to a risk of infection with HIV and other viruses due to failings by the Royal Gwent hospital. The health board waited three weeks to tell the family what had happened. Ieuan now faces...

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

More than £2.6m a year in public money is being spent on the rent for a UK govt office in south Wales that has been a disaster since it opened. The DWP is locked into a 25-year lease of the site, which has been closed since November with seven separate structural problems...

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

One of the two murderers was found to have been racially motivated. The other was "pathetically keen" to impress his friend. Rest in peace Kamran Aman walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Happy to be shortlisted at the Regional Press Awards and Wales Media Awards alongside some brilliant journalists.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Thugs took turns to beat defenceless man with metal baseball bat walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I tried to get an answer from Keir Starmer yesterday on Labour Senedd members accusing his government of attacking devolution. He avoided our question then shut us down from pressing First Minister Eluned Morgan on the same issue. We weren't allowed to film so here's the audio

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A 77-year-old emphysema patient shivering after a heating failure. An 80-year-old in his final hours, wet from the dripping ceiling of a pigeon-infested tunnel. A despairing staff member who says working at Wales' biggest hospital has become "an absolute nightmare"…

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

X is an absolute cesspit David Morgan, a neo-Nazi from Wales, has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for vile racist tweets about black and Jewish people. Yet X has rejected numerous complaints about the Holocaust-glorifying tweets, which remain visible on the platform.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Reform's highest-profile politician in Wales, Laura Anne Jones, billed the taxpayer for £1,876 in legal fees. A source close to her office told us the fees went towards NDAs to stop staff speaking about allegations over her expenses. The MS has refused to confirm or deny this.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Reform's highest-profile politician in Wales spread a false cancer claim and recruited people into a multi-level marketing scheme. Before her current stint as an MS, Laura Anne Jones made wildly misleading and pseudoscientific claims to promote a business model in which...

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Keir Starmer once represented this man. His name is Michael O'Brien, and he spent 11 years in jail for a murder he didn't commit. The then-barrister won Michael a £300k payout over police misconduct. At that time, Michael thought Starmer was 'a very compassionate man'...

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This is the supposedly "state of the art" office of 1,600 DWP staff in south Wales. For the second time in weeks, big sheets of glass have fallen from the upper floors' window walls. Staff say the office is "a disaster" and they feel unsafe going in. Story walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

DWP building in Treforest industrial estate

Shattered glass outside the DWP building in Treforest industrial estate

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

David Lewis, the tycoon behind the controversial Ffos y Fran opencast coal mine, accepted a caution for ABH against a solicitor Lewis was then prosecuted because he didn't comply with the conditions of the caution — only for the case to be dropped...

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Concerns have been raised over the choice of subcontractor for a major conservation project at Castell Coch. SSH Conservation Ltd – which last month changed its name to AAT (2025) Ltd – recently fell into administration owing more than £1.25m...

Castell Coch, a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle in north Cardiff

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

These are pictures from inside University Hospital of Wales, provided by a whistleblower who says chronic leaks and water damage have become a "considerable risk" to patients and staff.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Ex-Tory MP Katie Wallis, formerly known as Jamie Wallis, is accused of harassing ex-wife Rebecca Wallis. I was at Cardiff Magistrates' Court today as the trial of the former Bridgend MP was opened.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

On closer inspection, however, the image seemed to defy the laws of both biology and physics. The left ear of "Harry" was stretched beyond credulity and the horizon angled off from his head in two wildly different directions.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Two years since I went undercover as a door-to-door charity rep, how much has changed? One big charity, the National Deaf Children's Society, STILL won't guarantee a minimum wage despite its reps repeatedly being exploited by seedy subcontractor agencies...

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Bizarre story to break in the Cymru Premier Barry Town United vice-captain Evan Press has been jailed for 2.5 years for dealing cocaine. The midfielder, 24, has played every game this season for the club, who were "shocked" to learn of the case 30 mins after he was sentenced.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Brutal dig at Bristol City in court today as a fan was sentenced for the recent disorder in Cardiff…

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

NEW: Cardiff chef Lee Skeet has closed his restaurant, Jackson's, which he says has been burgled eight times in a year. He told me a mix of factors led to the closure but one of the main ones was that "there is such a big drug problem in town and no-one is doing anything about it".

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Last year David Thomas switched from independent to Reform, becoming one of the party's first councillors in Wales. He is leader of the party's group on Torfaen council. Here he is pictured on the artwork for a song which he says he had nothing to do with making.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

NEW: A Reform councillor in Wales is under fire after posting music online with references to "stanking a** b****es that need to wash up" and a derogatory term for people with cerebral palsy David Thomas, aka DJ Dowster, denied creating the songs... yet he is listed as composer.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

A judge has thrown out this man's claim against a local council for not letting him dig up a landfill to retrieve £600m in lost Bitcoin - but he has a new plan. James Howells, from Newport, tells me he'll start a new cryptocurrency based on his inaccessible wealth (He won't be calling it Bin Coin)

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Could be calling it too early, but I feel this was the moment Threads sealed its own fate as an also-ran to Bluesky.

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Conor Gogarty @conorgogarty.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I've attached the health board's full statement here. Not only does it fail to address the questions, or to acknowledge that the "clinical evidence available at the time" was gathered through an inadequate examination.

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