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video. Up Next. A man who killed a ‘timid, fun-loving’ pub-goer with one punch in a cowardly attack over a perceived slight about his partner’s karaoke singing has been jailed for life.
Image Credit: Metro [Undated handout photo issued by South Wales Police of Christopher Cooper, 39, from the Maritime Quarter, Swansea, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years for murder of Kelvin Evans at Swansea Crown Court on Friday. Issue date: Friday January 3, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Cooper. Photo credit should read: South Wales Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.]
Christopher Cooper, 39, took a swing at 64-year-old Kelvin Evans from behind outside The Station Hotel, known locally as ‘The Gyp’, in Gorseinon on May 26 last year. Chilling CCTV of the attack shows Mr Evans – who appears to have been oblivious to Cooper with no chance of defending himself – fall sideways into a wall before landing on the pavement.
Image Credit: Metro [Undated handout photo issued by South Wales Police of Catherine Tracy Francis, from Llanelli, who was previously found guilty of assisting an offender and sentenced to two years in jail at Swansea Crown Court on Friday, her partner Christopher Cooper, 39, from the Maritime Quarter, Swansea, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years for murder of Kelvin Evans at Swansea Crown Court on Friday. Issue date: Friday January 3, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Cooper. Photo credit should read: South Wales Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.]
Mr Evans was immediately knocked unconscious and was taken to hospital, where he died a month later. Cooper, from the Maritime Quarter, Swansea, boasted about the attack afterwards, calling his fists his ‘bad boys’. He offered a guilty plea to manslaughter but was found guilty of murder following a trial at the city’s crown court and given a life sentence with a minimum term of 16 years on Friday.
Image Credit: Metro [Undated handout grab from CCTV issued by South Wales Police of Christopher Cooper, punching Kelvin Evans. Christopher from the Maritime Quarter, Swansea, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years for murder of Kelvin Evans at Swansea Crown Court on Friday. Issue date: Friday January 3, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Cooper. Photo credit should read: South Wales Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.]
As he was led to the cells he screamed at the judge: ‘Go f**k yourself – how’s that. You’re a dickhead.’. Cooper’s partner, 54-year-old Catherine Tracy Francis, from Llanelli, was found guilty of assisting an offender and jailed for two years.
![[Undated handout photo issued by South Wales Police of Christopher Cooper, 39, from the Maritime Quarter, Swansea, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years for murder of Kelvin Evans at Swansea Crown Court on Friday. Issue date: Friday January 3, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Cooper. Photo credit should read: South Wales Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_234843545-061c.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
![[Undated handout photo issued by South Wales Police of Catherine Tracy Francis, from Llanelli, who was previously found guilty of assisting an offender and sentenced to two years in jail at Swansea Crown Court on Friday, her partner Christopher Cooper, 39, from the Maritime Quarter, Swansea, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years for murder of Kelvin Evans at Swansea Crown Court on Friday. Issue date: Friday January 3, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Cooper. Photo credit should read: South Wales Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_234843630-4c3f.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
![[Undated handout grab from CCTV issued by South Wales Police of Christopher Cooper, punching Kelvin Evans. Christopher from the Maritime Quarter, Swansea, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years for murder of Kelvin Evans at Swansea Crown Court on Friday. Issue date: Friday January 3, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Cooper. Photo credit should read: South Wales Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_234843544-4757.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
