Mum of Snapchat pervert cop tried to cover his crimes by burying evidence in cat's grave
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The mum of a convicted paedo former cop who used Snapchat to groom hundreds of girls online has been handed a two-year sentence for burying evidence vital to her son's case in a cat's grave. Lewis Edwards, 25, previously of Cefn Glas, Bridgend, in Wales, used Snapchat to groom more than 200 girls online and admitted 160 counts of child sexual abuse and blackmail involving 4,500 indecent images of children. The former South Wales Police officer lured his victims by pretending to be a boy aged between 10 and 16 before psychologically manipulating, bullying, threatening, and exploiting them into sending indecent images of themselves.
Courts heard the twisted abuser used a screen recorder to capture footage of the girls while forcing them to strip naked and abuse themselves as they sobbed and begged him to stop. The former police officer was handed a life sentence for the crime, and his mum has now been jailed for two years for helping him hide evidence.
Rebekah Edwards, 48, of Longfellow Drive, Cefn Glas, has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice after admitting to hiding one of her son's devices in a grave she dug for her pet cat. Police received intelligence after initially remanding Edwards in custody in 2023 that his mother had recovered two phones belonging to her son, who had told her to "bury the black one".
She complied, and later admitted to police when confronted with the intelligence that she "buried the phone in the garden when I buried the cat". Prosecutor Roger Griffiths said a black phone with a smashed screen was dug up by Mark Edwards. Despite the best efforts of the police, the buried phone could not be opened due to the SIM card being damaged beyond repair.
