Detective Constable Lee Harshey-Jones, 45, has pleaded guilty to voyeurism after using his phone to take an image beneath a teenage girl’s clothing in Colwyn Bay. He also admitted wiping and resetting the phone to conceal evidence, and improperly accessing an internal police computer log about the incident. The case has ended his police career and he is awaiting sentencing.

Harshey-Jones was arrested on 11 June and later suspended by North Wales Police; the force said he has since resigned. He was granted conditional bail and is due to be sentenced at Chester Crown Court on 19 November, with the judge warning that an adjournment for a pre-sentence report gave no indication of the eventual sentence. The article notes that he had led investigations into several high-profile cases, including the murder of two-year-old Ethan Ives-Griffiths.