Inside the most DANGEROUS town in Wales fighting a ‘disgusting’ drugs crisis where locals say ‘no one really cares about us’

‘The most dangerous’ in the ‘Wales’ ‘abandoned’ residents, beggars, drug dealers in the street in the street and ‘children’s drug dealers’ claimed that they were under water.

Although it has a population of only 159,600 people, Newport has the highest crime rate in the country and has been surprising for every 1000 people according to the figures from the home office.

This is equivalent to one of the eight people who have prepared a criminal report, and the national average national average is equivalent to the dwarfs of 84 crimes reported per 1000 perpetrators.

The analysis by Mailonline has shown that certain types of crime, including weapons, sexual crimes and violence, have increased significantly since Covid.

The town of South Wales suffers from the highest rates of householdness and drugs related to the highest rates in the country for each of them.

When Mailonline visited the ‘Zombie Town’ Pillgwenlly Ward this week, the rotting situation in the town, the drug addict inhabitants were walking around the ruined streets.

Most of the shops and cafes that once developed in the community, which was once proud of them, were now on boarding and burned in a situation.

The volatile evidence ranging from compostable garbage to hard home waste was common in the region.

Although it has a population of only 159,600 people, Newport has the highest crime rate in the country.

Mailonline observed a man who appears to inject himself on the street while looking at shock pedestrians.

Pillgwenlly Ward is known as a problem area by the locals

77 -year -old retired Jim Holland has been living in the region for years and said he was angry in the fall of the town

Despite the obvious struggles of the region, the residents speaking with Mailonline were warm and social, separated their anger for most local councils and overthrew the Welsh government.

77 -year -old retired Jim Holland has been living in the region for years and said he was angry in the fall of the town.

He said: ‘Why is a sh ******? Well, the Council doesn’t look at it, is it?! In Cardiff, they spend money for a lot of other things, such as putting extra people in the Senate and spending in the city in the city.

‘They just neglected, seems to be bombed; You would really think we were in Gaza. ‘

Another resident who seems to be working in a street cleaning capacity for the Council, expressed his fear that the future of the town under the state of anonymity.

He said: ‘Now only a ghost town, embarrassing because he used to develop, used to live. But it’s just gone.

‘Pillgwenlly) is the worst. The gangs of young people hanging around and all. I mean, every dependent hanging here is a shop paradise for them.

“ Drugs here is terrible, absolutely damn. If the lack of policing is against the Newport County Wrexham, you have a lot of police here, it’s a shame.

‘They can’t catch them, there are too many children selling drugs, no hope for them anymore! Because they have nothing to do!

‘I work for the council and when we cut the grass, we should call needles before starting. Do you know what I mean? If you want drugs, you can have everything you want, you should just ask the right person. This is a shame, an absolute shame, because I love this place – there was always a little bad name for that.

But they were always good people and there was a good community spirit and now like a third country country. Do you know what I mean? ‘

Council employees claimed that they had to control the grass for needles before cutting

Many shops and buildings in the town are no longer unattended (in the picture: an old job burned)

Throughout the generations, the residents of Newport complained that Cardiff, which was 12 miles along the M4, has received all investments, sports stadiums, concert areas and high Street brands.

The redevelopment of the Touted of Friar’s Walk is similar to a ghetto with only half of the original 34 stores, and once the busy commercial street no longer lives in the name of shop windows covered with ugly steel layers.

The Newport’s satellite town is going to CWMBran, five miles away to use many indigenous, proper and compact shopping centers and free parking.

And the inhabitants claim that the fall of local businesses in High Street causes beggars, homeless people and drug users to remain under water.

The town of Southern Wales now has the highest homelessness rates classified as 193 households from every 10,000 people.

The Council claim was encouraged to ‘unprecedented’ housing prints because of Newport’s status as the fastest growing city in Wales, and the population jumped from 145,700 to 159,587 between 2011 and 2021 census.

Local Jordan Cunliffe said that the lack of positive change and lack of investment in the town makes the inhabitants feel abandoned.

He said: ‘What you see is what you came here. I really noticed an increase of everything – crime and deprivation, I think everyone is accustomed to it.

‘I think this is an area where everyone is thrown here, and then an area that no one really cares about.’

Like many of the UK, Newport suffers from the drug crisis.

While our reporter was in the region, we observed a man who appeared to inject himself into the street while shock pedestrians.

The shop owner Lyn Wen announced that the problem was open wherever you look at the town.

The symptoms of deprivation in the region are as open as flying garbage to the streets.

The 27-year-old two of the two of their mother, Samantha Rogers, said that continuous anti-social behavior from YOBS, drunk, beggar and drug users is worried about young children.

Lyn Wen, the owner of the 52 -year -old shop, announced that the problem is open everywhere you look at the town.

He said: ‘There are too many medicines – too much medicine. The main problem and this is also a lack of money.

‘Everyone has, young people do it and old people do it. I have been living here for about 20 strange years and it got worse – it really worsens. ‘

These feelings echoed by two 27-year-old Samantha Rogers, who said that continuous anti-social behaviors from Yobs, Drunks, beggars and drug users were worried about young children.

He said: ‘I saw drug dealers around here. I saw a lot of empty Mr Whippy Canister where they made a abandoned car and balloon and a lot of glass on the floor the other day.

“ I have two little children and I don’t feel safe, I worry. When my other daughter gets older, I don’t even feel safe enough to put her on a range to walk around.

“ Yesterday, I went to see my nan and I can say that when I got out of my front door, someone had just come out because there was an empty needle package on the ground.

‘If you keep yourself in yourself, I find it good, but I don’t want to stay here permanently.’

The spokesperson of Charity, who works with insufficient and socially isolated adults in the town, said that he was working to bring Mailonline to bring ‘sustainable change’.

Operations Manager Fran Richley said: ‘We are aware that Newport is a city that faces significant social difficulties.

‘It is easy to focus on the problems in any local region – but the real question is: As individuals, we are ready to do so? I think it’s quite simple – we can sit on the edge and complain or choose to be a difference. ‘

In the Gwent Police, the head of the neighborhood policing temporary chief director Jason White said:

‘Anti-Social Behavior (ASB) and associated disorder are not completely accepted. Our communities have a negative impact on the quality of life and will not be tolerated as a whole in Newport and Gwent.

Between April 2024 and the end of March 2025, we made a patrol of 7,000 hours in the hot spot areas throughout the Gwent, which led to a general decrease in ASB.

‘Our commitment to appeal to ASB continues, and we have financed an additional home office financing an additional £ 1 million to continue this work next year and completed our existing patrols in the hot spot areas, including the sections of Newport.

From next month, we will increase our neighborhood activity, which focuses on ASB as part of Safer Street Summer Initiative (SSI).

‘Our police teams continue to work with Newport Municipal Assembly and other organizations and agencies to make all businesses and residents feel safe.

In the case of anti-social behavior, we were guided not only with the information collected, but also with the information provided through the public reports, even if there are investigations and patrols. So people who are affected by these problems come forward and talk to us. ‘