Former South Wales Police officer Lewis Edwards ruined the lives of at least 210 girls who he targeted on Snapchat and blackmailed into sending sexualised images of themselves for his gratification. Warning: This report contains upsetting information.

Lewis Edwards, then a police officer with South Wales Police, has been revealed as one of Wales’ most prolific sex offenders with around 210 victims aged between 10 and 16 years old. When he was finally arrested by the force who employed him, Edwards was found with more than 3,000 indecent images of children he had been communicating with on Snapchat.