Overview
- Preston Crown Court handed down the sentence on 24 October after Edmundson pleaded guilty to multiple child exploitation offences.
- The court imposed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order plus lifetime placement on the Sex Offenders Register.
- Charges followed a CPS consultation covering sexual communication with a child, inciting sexual activity, encouraging serious self-harm, and possessing indecent images.
- Police say he groomed the 14-year-old via Discord, Telegram and WhatsApp, sent indecent images, shared a link to child abuse material, and urged her to self-harm.
- Derbyshire Police recovered chat screenshots and noted faint 'Kai' marks on her neck before Lancashire’s East Internet Child Exploitation Team arrested him on 1 April and found indecent images on his phone.