The 24-year-old, who previously worked as an officer for South Wales Police, was sentenced to a minimum of 12 years in prison last year.
A police officer who groomed more than 200 underage girls on Snapchat has lost an appeal to reduce his life sentence. Lewis Edwards, a former South Wales Police officer, admitted more than 100 sexual offences against children and was sentenced to a minimum of 12 years behind bars. He was jailed last year, but lawyers acting on his behalf argued on Thursday that the judge should not have passed a life sentence.
' Cardiff Crown Court was told during a hearing last October that Edwards used fake Snapchat accounts - posing as a 14-year-old boy - to groom more than 200 girls aged between 10 and 16 online. Edwards asked scores of his victims for indecent images in school uniform and blackmailed many young girls - threatening to publish their photos or hurt their families to get them to cooperate.
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