The serial dine-and-dashers finally facing their just desserts: How married couple defrauded string of family restaurants by ordering steaks, lying they couldn't pay by card then doing runners - as hu

Over the last nine months restaurants in South Wales have waited with baited breath for the police to catch a couple who could just be Britain's worst customers. Email matthew.lodge@mailonline.co.uk Bernard McDonagh made no comment when asked by journalists if he was 'ashamed' on his behaviour Bernard McDonagh, 41, and Ann McDonagh, 39, tried to shield their faces as they arrived at Swansea Magistrates' Court today accused of being suspected 'dine-and-dashers' who were caught on CCTV leaving restaurants without paying A family-of-eight allegedly racked up an unpaid £329 bill when they sat at the Bella Ciao Italian restaurant in Swansea earlier this year The Somerset Arms 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 victims of the 'dine and dashers' Since then the law has finally caught up with them - but not before they had the front windows at their three-bedroom Port Talbot home smashed by a gang of men dressed in black balaclavas in an apparent act of retribution. Mr McDonagh, dressed in a salmon-coloured polo shirt and a light grey jacket, put his hand over his face outside court today Mrs McDonagh walked ahead with the hood of her light brown trench coat pulled over her head outside court today Ms Langford told MailOnline: 'They left the woman to pay. The couple's house in Port Talbot had its windows smashed in after their names were shared on social media The vandalism, allegedly committed by a gang of men wearing balaclavas, took place before Mr and Mrs McDonagh appeared in court Phil Carey, the owner of a blinds company, claimed alleged he may have been stiffed by the couple as well. The court heard that the couple's dine and dash spree began on August 9, last year, when they dipped out on a £267 bill at River House restaurant in Swansea.