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A Welsh town was suspicious of a newcomer. His shocking secret came out, and now he’s been murdered.
The Rhymney Valley carves through the green hills of South Wales. A number of small villages spill across the basin floor, places where residents once extracted coal from the surrounding land to power the engines of the British Empire. The stranger reportedly arrived there six weeks ago in the town of New Tredegar.
The houses running down Long Row are identical — pitched roofs, tan paint, satellite dishes angled skyward. The newcomer, 54-year-old David Gaut, moved into a ground-floor unit pressed close to a rising hill. The tight community didn’t initially take much notice. The flat was owned by the local government. “They’re always moving people in and out,” a neighbor said.
But interest — and suspicion — were soon coiling around Gaut. He slipped to his new neighbors that he had been in prison. Why? His story allegedly kept changing. But locals went digging into Gaut’s past for his secret. It may have cost him his life.
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The first crime happened 11 miles south in the Rhymney Valley, in Caerphilly.
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Three charged with murder as it’s revealed child killer David Gaut was stabbed FIFTY times and beaten so badly with a baseball bat he couldn’t be identified at first’
Gwent Police confirmed last night that three men have been charged with murder.
A 47-year-old man, 23-year-old man and 51-year-old man, all from the New Tredegar area are due to appear in Newport Magistrates’ Court today.
A neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: "We got to know him quite well since he'd moved in.
"He used to go on about how he had been in prison for 33 years.
"He told us he had shot a soldier but he told us he had been set up.
"We were in his flat and saw his middle name was Tracy on the letters he had.
"We thought that was unusual so I googled him to see if I could find out what he had done.
"That's when we saw the details of what he did to the baby boy. We couldn't believe it."
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A murder trial at Cardiff Crown Court heard Gaut tried to make the death look accidental.
The baby died of multiple injuries including a broken arm, injured liver and spleen and a fractured skull.
A judge described the murder as "the worst crime in the land".
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The Rhymney Valley carves through the green hills of South Wales. A number of small villages spill across the basin floor, places where residents once extracted coal from the surrounding land to power the engines of the British Empire. The stranger reportedly arrived there six weeks ago in the town of New Tredegar.
The houses running down Long Row are identical — pitched roofs, tan paint, satellite dishes angled skyward. The newcomer, 54-year-old David Gaut, moved into a ground-floor unit pressed close to a rising hill. The tight community didn’t initially take much notice. The flat was owned by the local government. “They’re always moving people in and out,” a neighbor said.
But interest — and suspicion — were soon coiling around Gaut. He slipped to his new neighbors that he had been in prison. Why? His story allegedly kept changing. But locals went digging into Gaut’s past for his secret. It may have cost him his life.
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The first crime happened 11 miles south in the Rhymney Valley, in Caerphilly.
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Three charged with murder as it’s revealed child killer David Gaut was stabbed FIFTY times and beaten so badly with a baseball bat he couldn’t be identified at first’
Gwent Police confirmed last night that three men have been charged with murder.
A 47-year-old man, 23-year-old man and 51-year-old man, all from the New Tredegar area are due to appear in Newport Magistrates’ Court today.
A neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: "We got to know him quite well since he'd moved in.
"He used to go on about how he had been in prison for 33 years.
"He told us he had shot a soldier but he told us he had been set up.
"We were in his flat and saw his middle name was Tracy on the letters he had.
"We thought that was unusual so I googled him to see if I could find out what he had done.
"That's when we saw the details of what he did to the baby boy. We couldn't believe it."
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A murder trial at Cardiff Crown Court heard Gaut tried to make the death look accidental.
The baby died of multiple injuries including a broken arm, injured liver and spleen and a fractured skull.
A judge described the murder as "the worst crime in the land".
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