Mum of Snapchat sex abuse cop jailed for hiding son's phone

Dec 19, 2024 CARDIFF CROWN COURT
A mother was jailed after she buried a phone in the family cat's grave to help her paedophile son - who used Snapchat to groom more than 200 girls while he was a police officer.

Lewis Edwards, 25, was given a life sentence 2023 and was sentenced for further offences alongside his mother. He previously admitted 160 counts of child sexual abuse and blackmail involving 4,500 indecent images of children.

Edwards, a former South Wales Police officer, is serving a minimum of 12 years after he lost an appeal against his sentence.

His mother Rebekah Edwards, 48, had pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice after concealing evidence.

At Cardiff Crown Court, Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, the Recorder of Cardiff, sentenced her to two years in prison.

The judge said she had considered whether the sentence could be suspended but said the offending was "too serious" for anything other than an immediate custodial sentence.

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