The serial dine-and-dashers finally 直面するing their just desserts: How married couple defrauded string of family restaurants by ordering steaks, lying they couldn't 支払う／賃金 by card then doing 走者s - as husband is asked 'are you ashamed' at 法廷，裁判所
- Bernard, 41, and Ann McDonagh, 39, appearing at Swansea 治安判事s' 法廷，裁判所
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Over the last nine months restaurants in South むちの跡s have waited with baited breath for the police to catch a couple who could just be Britain's worst 顧客s.
Arriving in a blue Ford 先頭, and often with a large group of people 含むing children tailing behind them, the pair order the most expensive dishes on the menu - typically steaks - along with starters and fizzy drinks.
However, when the time comes to 支払う／賃金 the 法案, problems arise. Cards get 拒絶する／低下するd, they run out of cash and, when the owners at staff aren't looking, the 以前 happy 顧客s make a run for it without squaring their tab.
Their antics, which have been branded '破滅的な' by one of their 申し立てられた／疑わしい 犠牲者s, have left a 追跡する of 商売／仕事s flailing in their wake and unable to 接触する them after 存在 供給（する）d with '偽の' phone numbers.
Furious restaurateurs, who between them were left more than £1,000 out of pocket, splashed CCTV images of their outrageous behaviour on social マスコミ, 誘発するing fury の中で the public, and a manhunt from 法律 施行.
The couple, since 明らかにする／漏らすd to be Bernard McDonagh, 41, and his wife Ann McDonagh, 39, were quickly identified as other eateries （機の）カム 今後 to 告発する／非難する them of wrong doing, and the police （機の）カム knocking on the door of their Port Talbot home.
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Bernard McDonagh made no comment when asked by 新聞記者／雑誌記者s if he was 'ashamed' on his behaviour
Bernard McDonagh, 41, and Ann McDonagh, 39, tried to 保護物，者 their 直面するs as they arrived at Swansea 治安判事s' 法廷，裁判所 today （刑事）被告 of 存在 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd 'dine-and-dashers' who were caught on CCTV leaving restaurants without 支払う／賃金ing
A family-of-eight 恐らく racked up an 未払いの £329 法案 when they sat at the Bella Ciao Italian restaurant in Swansea earlier this year
The Somerset 武器 in Port Talbot, The Longbow Beefeater in Pontyclun, the Chilli Too Indian restaurant in Clydach, La Casona in Skewen, the Riverhouse Lounge and Restaurant in Swansea and The Yard in Cowbridge believe that they are all 犠牲者s of the 'dine and dashers'
Since then the 法律 has finally caught up with them - but not before they had the 前線 windows at their three-bedroom Port Talbot home 粉砕するd by a ギャング（団） of men dressed in 黒人／ボイコット balaclavas?in an 明らかな 行為／法令／行動する of 天罰.
Today?Mr and Mrs McDonagh appeared at 法廷，裁判所 today where they pleaded 有罪の to five counts of 詐欺 in relation to their dine and dash antics, with the total 法案 coming in at £1,168.?
Mrs McDonagh also 認める to?万引 £1,017 in goods from Tommy Hilfiger, Sainsbury's and Tesco, and 妨害するing a police officer.
Mr McDonagh, wearing a grey tweed blazer and 海軍 trousers covered his 直面する?with his 手渡す as he was 直面するd by 新聞記者／雑誌記者s outside Swansea 治安判事s' 法廷，裁判所 today.?
The father-of-three, whose wife covered up her 直面する with her parka coat hood and 手渡すs,?remained?stony-直面するd and tight-lipped when asked 'are you ashamed of your 活動／戦闘s?'
There was no 返答 when asked why he thought the 支配するs didn't 適用する to him.?
It's a question that the restaurant owners 攻撃する，衝突する by the couple's 罪，犯罪 spree, which took place between August 2023 and April this year, might want to ask too given this behaviour has the 可能性のある to 廃虚 their 商売／仕事s.
Emily Langford, 経営者／支配人 of the family-run restaurant the Yard, in Cowbridge, believes she is one of their 犠牲者s.
She told MailOnline last month that each member of the group ordered starters, mains and two 瓶／封じ込めるs of fizzy drinks each.
Once they had finished, most of them 恐らく left the 前提s, leaving the woman to settle the tab.
She 恐らく （機の）カム to the 反対する and tried to 支払う／賃金 with her card, which was 拒絶する／低下するd twice, before asking staff for the nearest cashpoint and disappearing out of sight after walking out the door.
Mr McDonagh, dressed in a salmon-coloured polo shirt and a light grey jacket, put his を引き渡す his 直面する outside 法廷，裁判所 today
Mrs McDonagh walked ahead with the hood of her light brown ざん壕 coat pulled over her 長，率いる outside 法廷，裁判所 today
Ms Langford told MailOnline: 'They left the woman to 支払う／賃金. And she stood up and said 'Oh, is it okay? If I come to the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 to 支払う／賃金?' and we said that was 罰金.
'She was 基本的に buttering me and my mum up and was 説 lots of nice things to us. But as she put her card in it got 拒絶する／低下するd. She was like 'oh that's weird' and it 拒絶する／低下するd again.
'She said she would call her son and sort out a bank 移転, but we weren't comfortable with that and asked if she could 支払う／賃金 in cash and showed her where the nearest cash point was.
'I showed her where it was and as I turned my 長，率いる 支援する through the door to tell my mum she was at the cash point, by the time I turned around again she was gone.'
This 'dine and dash' playbook has been 恐らく （軍隊を）展開する，配備するd by the couple in each of the 出口s they have 攻撃する，衝突する in the last year.
にもかかわらず all seven restaurants 報告（する）／憶測ing the couple to the police, the 軍隊 are still working to identify them and 跡をつける them 負かす／撃墜する.
Ms Langford said the 窃盗 was '破滅的な' for her restaurant, which she runs with both her mother and father.
She said: 'It's 破滅的な. Because 明白に, all 歓待 is really, really struggling at the minute, like we'll put our 手渡すs up and say we're not doing 同様に as we were doing a couple of years ago, and I'm sure that a lot of 歓待 are feeling the same 同様に, and we know restaurants that are の近くにing around us.
'There's not many restaurants left here in Cowbridge and the High Street here is dying. I just don't want it to happen to anybody else.'
When the couple walked into Bella Ciao Italian restaurant in Swansea earlier this year as part of a group of eight they racked up a £329 法案, they had no qualms about leaving without 支払う／賃金ing th e 法案.
CCTV （映画の）フィート数 from the restaurant showed Mrs McDonagh 試みる／企てるing to 支払う／賃金 the 法案 with a 貯金 account card, which was 拒絶する／低下するd twice.
AUGUST 2023: The couple at the River House Lounge & Restaurant in Swansea?
FEBRUARY: The woman at the Mediterranean eatery La Casona, in Skewen
She told staff her son would wait inside while she went to get her 'other card', but she did not return and moments later the boy had also 消えるd from the 前提s.
The family-owned restaurant learned too late that there was no way to 接触する the diners after they had left as the number they used to take the 調書をとる／予約するing was '偽の'.
The owners were left with no choice but to 株 CCTV （映画の）フィート数 of the couple's behaviour, ビデオ of which went viral last month after more than 12million people 見解（をとる）d it online.??
It was 設立する that a 類似の trick was used by the couple at the River House last year, when they ran up a hefty 法案 whilst sitting on a （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する of five and '約束d' to get cash from the 地元の cash point after their card got 拒絶する／低下するd.
But the diners never returned, 主要な the restaurant owners to call the police.
After 審理，公聴会 the Bella Ciao story, the La Casona restaurant in Skewen, Neath, took to social マスコミ to 株 a 類似の story about the couple, who sat 負かす／撃墜する to eat as a group of six on February 23.
によれば the restaurant, four of the group left the building after finishing their meal, which cost nearly £300, leaving the mother to stay with a 'young boy' to 支払う／賃金.
The 商売／仕事 地位，任命するd a CCTV image of the mother, who told staff she would get another card from her car after the one she used was 拒絶する／低下するd.
The restaurant asked the boy to wait with them whilst she went to the car, but he was gone 10 seconds later and never returned.
It is a pattern that seems to 延長する to their 取引 outside restaurants 同様に.
The couple's house in Port Talbot had its windows 粉砕するd in after their 指名するs were 株d on social マスコミ
The vandalism, 恐らく committed by a ギャング（団） of men wearing balaclavas, took place before Mr and Mrs McDonagh appeared in 法廷，裁判所?
Phil Carey, the owner of a blinds company, （人命などを）奪う，主張するd 申し立てられた／疑わしい he may have been stiffed by the couple 同様に.
He told MailOnline last month: 'When I went around to 手段 up all the windows in the house, I gave her the 法案 for £850 and she made some excuse about having to leave to take her baby to the doctor.
'She said she would 支払う／賃金 the money by bank 移転. I started to think I was going to have a problem. I'm a one-man 禁止（する）d and £850 is a lot of money. People have advised me to go to the police or the small （人命などを）奪う，主張するs 法廷，裁判所 but I don't think I'll get what I'm 借りがあるd.'
They could be 刑務所，拘置所d for their 活動／戦闘s when they appear at 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 for 宣告，判決ing later this month - leaving a restaurant without?支払う／賃金ing carries a 刑務所，拘置所 宣告，判決 of up to two years.
In 治安判事s?法廷，裁判所 today the pair,?who have three children under the age of 16,? 認める to five counts of 詐欺, 同様に as 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s of 窃盗.
The 法廷，裁判所 heard that the couple's dine and dash spree began on August 9, last year, when they dipped out on a £267 法案?at River House restaurant in Swansea.
This was followed by failing to 支払う／賃金 a £99.40 法案 at Golden Fortune, Port Talbot, on January 31, 2024, and a £267.60 法案 at La Casona restaurant in Skewen on February 24, 2024.
They then went on to skip out on 支払う／賃金ing a £196 法案 at Isabella's restaurant Porthcawl, on March 27, before the most 最近の offence at Bella Ciao where they failed to 支払う／賃金 a £329 法案.
Ann McDonagh, who has?has 18 有罪の判決s from 36 offences 含むing 詐欺 and 窃盗, also 認める 窃盗s from two supermarkets 同様に as one count of 妨害するing or resisting a police officer.
The 窃盗s 含むd taking 着せる／賦与するs she didn't 支払う／賃金 for at the Tommy Hilfiger shop at Bridgend Designer 出口, South むちの跡s.
The value of the items were £442 on February 3, 2024, and £49 on February 17, 2024.
She also pleaded 有罪の to 得るing 世帯 items to the value of £426.60 from a Tesco Extra 蓄える／店 in Swansea on September 6, 2023.
Ann McDonagh also took items to the value of £400 from Sainsbury's at Bridgend Designer 出口 on February 25, 2024.
Her husband also has 前科s for 窃盗.?
Giles Hayes, mitigating for the pair who あられ／賞賛する from Sandfields, Port Talbot, said: 'They are 平等に culpable of the offences.'
They were 保釈（金）d ahead of a 宣告，判決ing 審理，公聴会 later this month at Swansea 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所. Both 辞退するd to comment when they left the 法廷，裁判所.?
地区 裁判官 Chris James said the couple would be 宣告，判決d at Swansea 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 later this month because the offences were 悪化させるd by children 存在 伴う／関わるd.
