https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/25/lewis-edwards-south-wales-police-abused-girls-jailed
Oct 25, 2023 — Lewis Edwards was on duty with South Wales police when he coerced some of the children into sending explicit images.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93q9dkvqweo
Nov 11, 2024 — Christopher Morrow pleaded guilty to trying to blackmail 16 women into sending him sexual videos.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/former-uk-police-officer-sentenced-for-abusing-over-200-girls-on-snapchat-4513770
Oct 25, 2023 — A 24-year-old police officer from UK's Bridgend has been sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to blackmailing and threatening more than 200 ...
https://apnews.com/article/uk-police-sentence-child-sex-snapchat-blackmail-7ebb8efbcce029217b1998be3853d60d
Oct 25, 2023 — He was arrested in February, and has since pleaded guilty to some 160 counts of child sex offenses and blackmail. In one case, prosecutors said ...
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/crime/lewis-edwards-paedophile-police-officer-sentencing-b2435648.html
Oct 25, 2023 — Smirking paedophile police officer jailed after grooming 200 girls on Snapchat. ... Edwards pleaded guilty to 161 offences, including blackmail ...
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/lewis-edwards-police-officer-snapchat-grooming-2s785jjxv?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqepATSLgyiya6tyJVvTeIi4WnpOUXISwrFA97An2MIJEwdCodrNx_CJ&gaa_ts=6936b0da&gaa_sig=iJm-FOqUvkK3Kt9JT2dRdzhaXoSqhRTSMRu-AN20NYqFtp9ZKQ0t35HW3xLa8hgpRry1NOKPNTREaOk0DLNO1Q%3D%3D
Oct 26, 2023 — Cardiff crown court heard Edwards, of Bridgend, south Wales, blackmailed many of his victims with threats to tell their family and friends ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-55549628
Jan 5, 2021 — The Crown Prosecution Service said one victim of Akash Sondhi had attempted suicide as a result of his blackmailing.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1334366/dl
Jan 3, 2024 — on The Ho Zone of the Minor Victim-3 Channel includes the following: "Blackmailed into getting fingered by and sucking her little brother's dick ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAmBuMwRbR8
The 24-year-old was sentenced to life imprisonment his victims all girls he'd contacted on social media and aged between 10 and 16.
https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/former-police-officer-jailed-for-blackmailing-underage-girls-to-send-explicit-sn/1026919631956237/
Former police officer given life sentence for blackmailing and threatening underage girls to send explicit photos on Snapchat #news #uknews ...
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/14401764/schoolgirl-victim-of-sextortion-edinburgh-primary/
Feb 26, 2025 — ... student on Snapchat. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter. Thank ... It is most often used to describe online blackmail, where criminals ...
https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2024-02-16/man-jailed-for-blackmailing-girl-12-into-sending-explicit-images-on-snapchat
Feb 16, 2024 — Man who blackmailed girl, 12, into sending explicit images on snapchat jailed ... A man has been jailed after blackmailing a 12-year-old girl into ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67177330
Oct 25, 2023 — A police officer who blackmailed and threatened underage girls to send him explicit photos of themselves on Snapchat has been jailed for life.
https://careappointments.com/care-news/wales/200753/police-officer-accused-of-grooming-210-girls-begged-victims-father-not-to-report-him-court-told/
Oct 24, 2023 — Edwards, who joined the force in January 2021 and has since resigned, had previously pleaded guilty to 22 counts of blackmail, 138 child sex ...
https://www.gloucestershire.police.uk/news/gloucestershire/news/warning-after-growing-number-of-sextortion-cases-in-the-county/
Sep 15, 2022 — Police have issued a warning that children in the county are being lured into sending sexually explicit images online and then blackmailed.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/29/warning-over-sextortion-after-rise-in-teenage-victims/
Apr 29, 2024 — Children left 'devastated' by scammers who dupe them into handing over intimate photos and then blackmail them.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/9412123/paedo-cop-posed-teen-groom-girls-snapchat/
Oct 25, 2023 — ... blackmail and 138 child sex offences. He also pleaded guilty to refusing to disclose the password to a mobile phone and USB stick. No data ...
https://www.facebook.com/blackburnlife/posts/paedophile-sent-girl-15-sexually-explicit-messages-on-snapchat-police-were-made-/1063188925846749/
Apr 5, 2025 — LANCASHIRETELEGRAPH.CO.UK. Paedophile sent girl, 15, sexually explicit messages on Snapchat ... blackmail them, pictures of young girls from all ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlzQWZVHMsI
22 year-old Martez Hurst is charged with both attempted and sexual exploitation of a minor along with blackmail.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/one-10-uk-parents-child-122812926.html
Nov 28, 2025 — A third of parents don't believe the government and tech companies are doing enough to prevent online blackmail.