A mother was sentenced to two years in prison for concealing evidence that helped her son, a former police officer convicted of child sexual abuse.
A mother has been 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 last year and was sentenced for further offences on Tuesday. 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 in May. His mother Rebekah Edwards, 48, had pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice after concealing evidence. Recorder of Cardiff Tracey Lloyd-Clarke sentenced her to two years in prison today. 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. Edwards will serve half of her sentence in custody before she is released on licence. 'Bury the black one' Cardiff Crown Court heard that police with a warrant searched the home address of Lewis Edwards on 8 February 2023. Prosecuting, Roger Griffiths said 'a number of electronic devices' were recovered but that Lewis Edwards declined to give passwords to police. In July 2023, South Wales Police were informed Rebekah Edwards had recovered two mobile phones. 'It was reported to the police that Mrs Edwards had asked what she should do with the phones,' Mr Griffiths added. 'Lewis Edwards had said: 'Bury the black one'.' Rebekah Edwards initially handed over two phones to officers but she was then asked by police about a report they had received of a phone in the garden. 'I buried the phone in the garden when I buried the cat,' she told officers. Mr Griffiths told the court the device recovered from 'the grave of the family cat' was 'a black mobile telephone with a smashed screen'. Due to its damage, the phone was 'incapable of examination', the prosecution sai
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