Man, 61, appears in court accused of murdering a housing officer who was stabbed before crashing her car in Bridgend

Clifford Foster limped into the dock at Newport Magistrates' Court with a crutch, a swollen eye and a bruised face. When asked to stand, he told the judge: 'I can hear you from here.' He is charged with murdering mother-of-two Eleanor Barnfield, 47, at the Ger-y-Nant retirement complex where she worked. He was remanded in custody to appear at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.

Foster is allegedly have been inside a flat Ms Barnfield said he shouldn't be in.

Armed police ended a 12-hour stand-off at the complex with an arrest at 1am.

The Welsh Ambulance Service called claims of a delayed ambulance 'factually untrue'.