Swansea murder: Christopher Cooper jailed for one punch killing

A “cowardly” attacker who murdered a 64-year-old man with a single punch outside a pub has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years.

Christopher Cooper, 39, from the Maritime Quarter in Swansea, punched Kelvin Evans, from Gorseinon, Swansea, once to the head.

The judge at Swansea Crown Court told Cooper Mr Evans’s life was “senselessly and cruelly extinguished”, and he had shown no remorse about the attack from behind outside The Station Hotel in Gorseinon, even boasting about the attack only taking one punch.

Mr Evans’s 92-year-old mother Maureen said she looked at her son’s picture every morning and night, and in tears told the court of her sadness.