The pitched battles on August 5, 2022 sparked a huge police investigation.
Shocking violence and mayhem descended on a Welsh cemetery as groups of men fought running battles among gravestones.
The officer in charge of the investigation, South Wales Police detective inspector Carl Price, said Operation Hitchin involved some "good old fashioned detective work" with extensive analysis of CCTV footage, dashcam and mobile phone footage, forensics, intelligence gathering, phone data analysis, and working with other police forces as far a field as Berkshire.
As the net began to close in on those responsible for the disturbance two suspects went on the run. The pair were traced to Berkshire, and then intelligence led the investigation to the Slough area. A team of Welsh detectives were sent over the border and, working with Thames Valley Police officers, they swooped on the fugitives as they left a gym in the town and arrested them.
He said what lay behind the feud was unclear but what was clear was that the violence "came as no surprise" to the various factions, and many people were on "high alert" and had known trouble would erupt at the blessing ceremony.
Advocate Giles Hayes, for Thomas, said his client was a father of seven children., and was a hard-working man who runs a Swansea-based recycling business.Tom Crowther KC, for Tawse, said the defendant had been the target of unexpected and significant violence and reacted to it by picking up a shovel and using it to threaten.
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