Paedophile police officer gives ‘no comment’ interview before being given 13 life sentences

A paedophile former police officer gave a "no comment" interview in custody before he was handed 13 life sentences on Wednesday, 25 October.

Lewis Edwards incited more than 200 young girls to send him degrading pictures and videos of themselves over Snapchat.

The 24-year-old, who joined South Wales Police in 2021, posed as a teenage boy to groom 210 girls aged between 10 and 16 and forced them to send him indecent images of themselves that he secretly recorded.

Edwards, who had 4,500 indecent images of children, admitted 160 counts of child sexual abuse and blackmail.