The 21 – year-old H&M worker felt “violated and hurt” after finding the photos on a second phone belonging to her businessman boyfriend.
Wells, a 27 – y ear-old who ran a beauty products company, was handed a 12 -month community order and ordered to sign the Sex Offender Register for five years for possessing indecent photographs of children when he appeared in court.
Lydia’s mother, Michelle Roberts, spoke toMailOnlineafter the inquest into her daughter’s death.
She said: “Adam has been allowed to carry on with his life while we are still here, suffering.
” He has changed his name and got a new job. As a family, we feel very angry about what has happened. “
And in a statement read out at the inquest she said they family would never forgive Wells, who she feels “made her make the decision to do what she did.”
She said: “Lydia lived with Adam Wells and had been in a relationship for two years from 2015 to 2017.
“On June 9th Lydia found a second phone of Adams and found it contained inappropriate images of young girls from a Russian based website.
“Lydia felt violated, hurt and disgusted at what she found – even more so at the thought of Adam being with her young *** niece and nephew.
“I feel that he made her make the decision to do what she did.
“Adam Wells was at court July 2018 and has been charged with possessing indecent images of children and has been put on the sex offenders register.
“As a family we are devastated at the loss of our beautiful daughter and for this we will never forgive him.
“In our opinion we are left now with more unanswered questions and hope one day to find out the truth.”
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