Yob called ‘hardest man in Port Talbot’ threatened to rip out worker’s eyeballs

A man who called himself ‘the hardest man in Port Talbot’ has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for a series of threats.

41-year-old Clayton Jones threatened to rip out someone’s eyeballs and eat them, before going on to stalk a woman and speak to her daughter.

Swansea Crown Court heard Jones had been diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorder and had spent many years engaging with mental health services, but ‘appears to be outside the boundaries of treatment’.

Sarah John, prosecuting, told the court that Jones’ interactions with staff at the Forge mental health centre in Port Talbot in January this year raised alarm bells.

In a series of calls to the centre, the defendant demanded money, and when told that was not possible, began issuing threats.

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