Metro – Blackmail sex cop: 210 girl victims 

A police officer who blackmailed young girls into sending him sexual images has been jailed for life, says Metro.

The paper reports that Lewis Edwards, 24, messaged 210 girls aged ten to 16 and that pictures of 207 of them were found on his devices. It says he was handed 13 life sentences with a minimum term of 12 years, though adds that he “refused to face his victims and their families in court”.