Mum admits helping paedophile police officer son

The mum of a erstwhile constabulary serviceman who was fixed a beingness condemnation for kid enactment maltreatment has admitted hiding mobile phones to effort and hinder the investigation.

Lewis Edwards, 24, of Cefn Glas, Bridgend, utilized Snapchat to groom much than 200 girls online and admitted 160 counts of kid intersexual maltreatment and blackmail involving 4,500 indecent images of children.

His parents, Rebekah, 47, and Mark Edwards, 51, were some charged with perverting the people of justness by concealing devices.

Mr Edwards was cleared astatine Merthyr Crown Court.

Both faced the aforesaid complaint relating to the concealment of 3 mobile phones betwixt February and August 2023.

Edward’s parent pleaded blameworthy to the complaint but Mr Edwards denied it, to which the prosecution said it would connection nary grounds against him, truthful helium was recovered not guilty.

Defence barrister Giles Hayes said Edwards was "previously of bully character" and a "primary carer for her mother," and requested clip for pre-sentence reports to beryllium made up of sentencing.

She was fixed conditional bail.

Her lad appeared successful va video nexus from Parkhurst Prison wherever helium pleaded blameworthy to perverting the people of justness by concealing mobile phones and 3 further charges of possession of indecent images.

A sentencing day for some has been acceptable for 22 November.