Now living – Gorleston in Great yarmouth June 2005 Jail for wife who watched sex attacks A former Nuneaton woman who encouraged and arranged for her husband to have sex with a 12-year-old girl – and then watched as the assaults took place has been jailed for four years. She was told by the judge: “How you could do that to a little girl is almost beyond belief. Diane Edwards had originally denied any involvement in her husband Alan’s sexual abuse of the girl, but finally admitted her part in the offences on the day she was due to stand trial at Warwick Crown Court. Edwards, aged 54, who was living in Queen Elizabeth Road, Camp Hill, Nuneaton, at the time, was jailed and made subject to an extended four-year period on licence after her release. She admitted aiding and abetting, counselling or procuring her husband to have intercourse with the girl and to commit gross indecency with her. She was ordered to register as a sex offender for life and banned from working with children for 10 years. Prosecutor Sara Muzaffer said the couple had previously lived in Tamworth where Alan Edwards had been jailed for indecency with a nine-year-old girl. Miss Muzaffer said the latest victim told police she had had intercourse with the husband while the wife was present. On one occasion Mrs Edwards had “‘almost insisted” that the girl get into bed and take her ‘bottoms’ off, and her husband then got in and had sex with the girl. Andrew Tucker, defending, said Mrs Edwards, who had twice been treated for cancer, was dominated by her at times violent husband and, because of her “sad back-ground”, she felt he was all she had in her life. Judge Richard Bray told Edwards: “I give you some credit for your pleas of guilty, but I have to sentence you for very serious sexual offences. “Incredible as it may seem, you were encouraging and arranging for intercourse to take place with this young girl, and worse, you were physically present when it took place. “How you could do that to a little girl is almost beyond belief. There has to be a long sentence to express the public abhorrence of the offences.” In July last year Alan Edwards, aged 54, was jailed for six years and ordered to register as a sex offender for life after he admitted charges including unlawful intercourse with the girl and raping her.