South Wales Police
Christopher Cooper had been boasting about the attack taking just a single punch
A “cowardly” man murdered a pub goer with one punch after he thought he was making fun of his partner’s karaoke singing.
Christopher Cooper, 39, punched 64-year-old Kelvin Evans, from Gorseinon, Swansea, once to the head outside the Station Hotel pub on 26 May 2023.
Judge Geraint Walters told Swansea Crown Court that Cooper appeared to have felt “slighted” after Mr Evans and his partner shared a look while his partner, Catherine Tracy Francis, was singing karaoke.
Cooper, of the Maritime Quarter in Swansea, was found guilty of murder and was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 16 years. Francis, 54, was found guilty of assisting an offender and was sentenced to two years in jail.
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Kelvin Evans’s family say he was a “wonderful, loving, funny son, brother, uncle and friend”
Cooper and Francis, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, were at the pub – known locally as The Gyp – when the attack happened.
Judge Walters said the murder stemmed from the “perceived feeling that your part
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