Four Shutters in Four Months: 6 Commercial Street Closes

In the early hours of Tuesday 15 September 2026, the landlord of 6 Commercial Street, Pontypool took his building back. The notice now taped inside the window names the former tenant as Carrie-Anne Ridsdale — the name she has spent years insisting is not hers. It records a lease that expired on 26 October 2025. That is 324 days ago. It is the fourth Jayne’s Baby Bank shop lost in four months — and it was the last one.

The early hours

The landlord attended 6 Commercial Street before the town was awake. By the time the shutters on Commercial Street went up for the rest of Pontypool, two sheets of A4 were taped to the inside of the Jayne’s Baby Bank window, facing out over a rail of children’s coats and a shelf of bric-a-brac still priced up for sale.

The stock is still in there. The price tags are still on it. What is no longer in there is any right to sell it.

What the notice actually says

It is headed, in full:

FORMAL NOTICE
EXPIRED COMMERCIAL TENANCY — NO UNAUTHORISED ACCESS

Premises: 6 Commercial Street, Pontypool, NP4 6JJ
Date: 15 September 2026
Former Tenant: Carrie-Anne Ridsdale
Landlord: Nasrat Shoaib

It opens “Dear Ms Ridsdale,” and then sets out, clause by clause, why she is no longer a tenant. Not why she is being evicted. Why she stopped being a tenant last October.

1. Expiry of the tenancy

Under Clause 1 of the Lease, the contractual term was for one year from and including 27 October 2024. The contractual term therefore expired on 26 October 2025.

In particular, Clause 8 provides that at the end of the Term the Tenant must: yield up the Property and the relevant fixtures and fittings in the condition required by the Lease; and vacate the Property and remove all of the Tenant’s items from the Property.

Accordingly, the tenancy has expired and you have no continuing contractual right to occupy, operate from, or otherwise use the premises.

2. No unauthorised access

The notice then closes every door, and it closes them in a level of detail that tells you what the landlord expected to happen next:

You are formally notified that you must not enter, attempt to enter, or arrange for any other person to enter the premises without the Landlord’s prior express permission.

This includes, without limitation:

• forcing or attempting to force entry;
• interfering with, bypassing or damaging the locks or security arrangements;
• using or obtaining keys or other means of access without authorisation;
• entering through or with the assistance of a third party; or
• instructing, encouraging or permitting another person to enter on your behalf.

The Landlord reserves the right, where appropriate, to notify the police and/or take appropriate legal action.

Read that list again. It is not boilerplate. Somebody sat down and specifically anticipated keys being used, locks being bypassed, and other people being sent in on her behalf. Anyone who has followed this story for the last three years will recognise every single line of it.

5. No continuing right to trade

As the contractual term has expired, you are not authorised to continue operating your business from the premises or to use the premises for business purposes.

You must not attend the premises for the purpose of trading, serving customers, accessing stock or equipment, or conducting business activities without the Landlord’s prior express authorisation.

Clause 4 of the notice gives her 21 days from 15 September — so until 6 October 2026 — to contact the landlord’s named representative and arrange collection of stock, equipment, records and fixtures. By appointment only. Arranged in advance. Landlord’s express permission required. And the notice is explicit that being let in to collect boxes does not hand anything back:

It will not constitute permission to resume trading, occupation or possession of the premises, and will not create or revive any tenancy, licence or other right of occupation.

It is signed by the landlord and dated 15 September 2026. (We have redacted the collection telephone number and email address that appear on the public notice. They belong to the landlord’s representative, not to Jayne’s Baby Bank, and he is not the story.)

324 days

This is the fact that swallows every other argument, so it is worth isolating.

Three hundred and twenty-four days. Ten and a half months. An entire Christmas trading period, an entire spring, an entire summer — run out of a shop she had no contractual right to be in.

Every dispute of the last year now has to be re-read against that date:

• When SSE arrived on 19 June 2026 with a warrant, a locksmith and a van, and a Jayne’s Baby Bank representative stood in the doorway trying to block entry — the lease had already been dead for 236 days. (Lights Out on Commercial Street: The JBB Warrant Explained)
• When the arguments raged over rent, over “we have always paid our rent”, over “I haven’t got to pay any rent” — the term had already expired.
• When the prohibition notices were being waved at anyone who came to the door as proof that the landlord was the problem — the term had already expired.
• When she was telling followers in August that Crane Street had been “given back” and there was no eviction — the Commercial Street term had already been expired for nine months. (5 Crane Street: The End of the Road)

There was never a fight to win here. There was a clock, it ran out on 26 October 2025, and everything since has been noise laid over the top of an expired piece of paper.

“Former Tenant: Carrie-Anne Ridsdale”

Four words on a shop window in Pontypool that end an argument she has been running for three years.

The public position has always been that “Carrie-Anne Ridsdale” is somebody else. A mistake. A mix-up. Someone else’s paperwork. When a County Court Judgment for £7,141 surfaced against Ceri-Ann Ridsdale t/as Jayne’s Baby Bank, the response was that it was “not even my name”, and that there were no legal documents connected to the operation at all. When a second, unsatisfied CCJ for £277 was entered against MISS CARRIE-ANNE RIDSDALE at the Civil National Business Centre on 27 January 2026, the same denial held. We covered that in full on 15 May.

A credit file can be dismissed as an error. A court register can be dismissed as somebody else’s. This cannot.

This is a lease. It is a private contract between two parties. Somebody sat opposite that landlord on 27 October 2024 and signed it. The landlord’s notice does not guess at a name, and it does not lift one off a database — it names the person on his own lease, addresses her directly as “Dear Ms Ridsdale”, and tapes it to the window of the shop she has been running under the name “Jayne Price”.

You cannot be the tenant and not be the tenant. Either Carrie-Anne Ridsdale signed that lease and has been trading from that building — or Jayne’s Baby Bank has spent 324 days occupying premises let to a woman it claims to have nothing to do with. There is no third answer.

The man inside, and the £40

The landlord did not find an empty shop.

Inside the premises in the early hours was the man we identified on 13 September: Raymond Derek Watkins, also known as Ray Ipac and as “Patrick”. In March 2013 at Cardiff Crown Court he was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment after admitting six offences of accessing, making and possessing indecent images of children of the most serious category. He also pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. He was made subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order barring him from being alone with any child under 16, and placed on the sex offenders’ register for ten years.

Jayne’s Baby Bank gave him a key, a job title, and somewhere to sleep. Two days after we published that, he was still in the building overnight.

According to the landlord’s account, the negotiation for possession of the last Jayne’s Baby Bank shop front in Wales went like this: he offered the man £40 to leave. The man accepted, and walked out.

He was seen shortly afterwards in Greggs, spending it.

That is the whole operation, in one transaction. Three years of “Head of Security”. Three years of a “Homeless and Vulnerable Co-ordinator” role announced for September. A shop full of donated baby clothes, given by the public, in a building with no lease. And it ended with a convicted child sex offender being handed two twenty-pound notes on a Pontypool pavement and walking to the bakery.

Fact vs. claim

Within hours of the closure being disclosed in the Jayne’s Baby Bank Exposed group, this appeared on the Jayne’s Baby Bank page:

“Fire prohibition up for the landlords today and the council have ordered the work to be completed ASAP. The owness [sic] has been passed back to the landlords. We did our work required by the prohibitions….

Any way … Donation centre 2 sneak peak ??? Maybe! Maybe! its got double doors to offload donations off the back of a truck!

(Only us pair would be in an attic in some random building – lol)”

Jaynesbabybank Registered – cic, 15 September 2026

Not one word of it is about what happened.

This is the same move every time, and by now it is almost a reflex. Caerphilly was a landlord who would not let her collect her things. Risca was not a repossession — and when the Torts notice ran out and a clearance crew had to empty the building, the line was that “the landlord stopped us from collecting in the designated time period”, an assertion for which we have never been shown a single document. Crane Street was not an eviction, it was “given back”. Commercial Street is not a closure, it is the landlord’s fire safety problem. And look — a new building! Double doors! Off the back of a truck!

The pattern is not sophisticated. Post something shinier than the thing you are standing in front of, and hope the audience looks at the sneak peek instead of the shutter.

Commercial Street was already running on borrowed time

Today was not a bolt from the blue. 6 Commercial Street has been the subject of enforcement all year.

On 19 June 2026, SSE arrived at around 9am with a meter check and disconnection warrant, a locksmith and a van. A Jayne’s Baby Bank representative attempted to block the doorway, citing a prohibition notice. The officer’s reply became the line of the summer:

“I have a warrant.”

The power went off. What followed was seven separate and mutually incompatible explanations — previous tenants, the wrong meter, addresses that do not exist, unrelated energy screenshots, bills from 2012, and finally a claim that the whole thing had been a “forced entry”. The full account is here.

And there is the matter of the wall. 6 Commercial Street and 5 Crane Street are separate units in a Grade II listed building. They were knocked through. On camera, in October 2025:

“Oh yeah, we’ve knocked through. I don’t mess around.”

“So yeah, that’s Pontypool Phase 2 there…because they all connect to each other.”

Carrie-Anne Ridsdale, October 2025

“Pontypool Phase 2” is now two empty units with notices in the windows and two landlords who want their buildings back.

Four shutters since May

Four months. Four buildings. Three towns. Every one of them taken back by the person who owned it.

Not one of those four was a decision she made. Every single one was a landlord arriving to take back a building she had no remaining right to be in. And in Caerphilly, in Risca and at Crane Street alike, the donated stock ended up being dealt with by somebody else, because none of it was collected when it could have been.

What is left

One unit. Newbridge.

It is under a fire service prohibition. Members of the public are not permitted to enter it. It is full to the doors, and has been for several weeks, with stock stacked outside the unit — donated goods, given by local people for local families, sitting in the open air against a wall.

That is not a shop. Nobody can go in it. Nothing can be sold from it. It is a storage problem with a prohibition notice on the door, and a sneak peek of a third building posted on Facebook to distract from it.

Three years

This investigation started three years ago, with a handful of people in a Facebook group who could not make the numbers add up. They were called liars, bullies and a trafficking ring. They were threatened. They kept going, and they kept receipts.

Nobody in that group ever shut a shop. They did not need to. Every closure above was carried out by somebody entirely independent — a landlord in Caerphilly, a landlord in Risca, a property company on Crane Street, a landlord on Commercial Street — and every enforcement action alongside them came from SSE, the fire service or environmental health. Each was acting on the same thing: the paperwork. The paperwork was always going to win, because the paperwork was always true.

The lease said one year. It ran out on 26 October 2025. This morning, 324 days later, a landlord in Pontypool taped two sheets of A4 to a shop window, named Carrie-Anne Ridsdale as the former tenant, offered a convicted child sex offender £40 to get out of the building, and locked the door.

The last Jayne’s Baby Bank shop front in Wales is closed.

Sources and related reporting

• “Hoorah”: Public Reacts After JBB Caerphilly Unit Allegedly Reclaimed by Landlord — 7 May 2026
• New CCJ Reveals Carrie-Anne Ridsdale Identity Previously Denied — 15 May 2026
• Repossession Notice Appears at Former Jayne’s Baby Bank Risca Premises — 8 June 2026
• Lights Out on Commercial Street: The JBB Warrant Explained — 19 June 2026
• Torts Notice? We Took Notice — 2 July 2026
• 5 Crane Street: The End of the Road for Jayne’s Baby Bank — 16 August 2026
• Convicted Child Sex Offender Working and Living at Jayne’s Baby Bank — 13 September 2026
• The Sherlock Dossier — #EXPOSED

Note on this report

The Formal Notice quoted above was photographed in the window of 6 Commercial Street, Pontypool on 15 September 2026 and is reproduced here in part. Quotations from it are transcribed from those photographs. The account of events in the early hours of 15 September, including the £40 offered for vacant possession, is the landlord’s account as relayed to this site. Conviction details for Raymond Derek Watkins are drawn from the March 2013 Cardiff Crown Court proceedings as reported at the time and set out in our 13 September report. The telephone number and email address printed on the public notice have been redacted.

Factual statements are supported by evidence where available, and opinions are identified as such. Nothing on this site should be interpreted as a legal finding or legal advice. Carrie-Anne Ridsdale, also known publicly as Jayne Price, has a standing right of reply. Any response received will be published in full and unedited.

… Sherlock!