A Pets At Home employee who alerted the police to her ex-partner’s horrendous baby intercourse crimes has additionally been jailed after detectives realised she was additionally concerned. Erica Jones, 22, a member of workers within the Garston department of Pets at Home in Merseyside started an affair with colleague Phil Hudson in 2019.

The sick relationship concerned exchanging disturbing fantasies about abusing kids, evidenced by textual content messages despatched between the pair the Liverpool Echo reviews.

In August 2022, 33-year-old Hudson, previously of Lincoln Street in Garston, was sentenced to 27 months behind bars at Liverpool Crown Court.

Now Jones, who’s from Runcorn, has additionally been jailed after it turned clear that she was additionally a wicked intercourse prison.

Prosecutor Bernice Campbell mentioned that Hudson despatched footage and a video of himself masturbating within the presence of a younger baby to Jones, who then saved it on her telephone.

She informed the court docket: "The two would also communicate via text and social media and would discuss their sexual fantasies including comments about children that had come into the shop.

"The fantasies, predominantly by her co-worker but additionally by the Defendant, would additionally contain younger kids."

In the aftermath of the couple’s break-up, Jones told her superiors that Hudson had a "sexual curiosity in kids" and was inspired to report this to the police.

Two days later, Jones did notify the authorities, after which Hudson was arrested and his telephone seized.

In an try to help officers with their investigation Jones handed over her cellular, however this act uncovered her complicity.

The prosecutor informed the court docket: “During the interview, the Defendant stated that she loved her ex-partner and would do anything for him. She admitted that she would also engage in sexual fantasy talk.

"However, in March 2022 she concluded that what he was saying was potentially criminal and wrong so decided to get evidence to show the police. At this time she had also found out that her co-worker had shared photographs of herself with others.

"From the mobile phone download it can be seen that the defendant had received two images from her co-worker, one on June 3, 2020, one on December 2, 2021, and a video on January 3, 2022. She did not however, disclose these to the Police until June 2022, stating that they were evidence that she had collated to show her co-worker was a paedophile."

Hudson, after an investigation, pleaded guilty to nine child sex offences, including two counts of engaging sexual activity in the presence of a child, and possessing indecent images of children.

However, analysis of conversations between Jones and Hudson led to further discoveries made by police.

Ms Campbell told the court: "A detective reviewed the mobile phone download and established that both the Defendant [Jones] and her co-worker had been sharing fantasies involving young children and that she had, on many occasions, been the instigator."

The majority of Jones’ messages to Hudson are too graphic to publish, but they did refer to Jones and the young child victim “working together” to carry out intercourse acts on Hudson.

One message, despatched when Hudson was apparently within the bathtub, mentioned: "It's a shame [the victim] was not there with you."

The court docket heard that Jones was arrested on August 22 2022 and through her interview mentioned that she would “play along and engage in her co-workers fantasies about children but that she had no interest in children herself”.

She accepted that she had saved the photographs and video and had commented about them.

Jones additionally conceded that she went to the authorities as a result of Hudson wouldn't depart his new girlfriend for her.

She pleaded responsible to possessing indecent pictures of youngsters and arranging or facilitating the fee of a kid sexual offence.

Jones was jailed for twenty-four months.