A DEVIL’S Bridge mum has been jailed for giving her son a false alibi after a car crash and offering money to someone to take the blame for a series of burglaries.

Katy Grew, 50, also submitted a fraudulent claim to a car insurance company saying she suffered whiplash injuries in a collision she wasn’t involved in.

Swansea Crown Court heard that in February 2018, Grew’s son, Daniel Bloomer and friend Allyn Freeman, carried out a series of ’creeper’ burglaries on elderly women in the Aberystwyth area.

Bloomer knew the women were vulnerable as he worked as a carer.

Both men were jailed for four years in December 2020.

The court heard how Grew and Bloomer offered to pay Freeman if he would take sole responsibility for the break-ins.

Craig Jones, prosecuting, said on the evening of 15 March, 2019, Bloomer was involved in a collision on a country road near Devil’s Bridge, hitting a sheep. Bloomer spoke to the farmer and told him the car belonged to his mother. It later emerged Bloomer was not insured to drive it.

The court heard that Grew went to see the farmer and handed him a note containing insurance company details naming another of her sons as the driver.

The farmer, noticing the name was different from the one he had been given earlier, went online and found the Bloomer brothers on Facebook.

The court also heard that, the day after the crash, Grew contacted her insurance company and told them about a collision involving her son Nathan and later told them she was a passenger in the car and suffered injuries which she wanted to claim for.

The prosecutor added while this "ongoing deception" was being perpetrated, Grew also gave police a false alibi in relation to an aggravated burglary in Lampeter that Bloomer was under investigation in relation to, but was not charged with.

Grew told police that on the day of the burglary her son had gone to see his girlfriend in Bow Street.

Mr Jones said Grew also contacted her son’s girlfriend and asked her to back up that version of events, telling her: "You need to say Dan was with you all night" and suggesting she tell the police Daniel Bloomer had spent the night at her house and the couple had enjoyed "banging sex" together.

Grew admitted fraud and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in relation to the car crash, to perverting the course of justice in relation to the false alibi, and to a joint charge of perverting the course of justice in relation to trying to get Freeman to take the blame for the creeper burglaries.

Nathan Bloomer, of Banc y Darren, Aberystwyth, admitted the charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

When Grew and Nathan Bloomer entered guilty pleas - on the second day of their trial - the case against Daniel Bloomer was discontinued.

Denise Fitzpatrick, for Grew, said the defendant felt "disgust" at what she had done and said she had acted "very stupidly" while trying to protect her son.

Judge Paul Thomas QC told Grew her actions, while motivated by a sense of misplaced loyalty, struck at the very heart of the criminal justice system. He described the defendant’s lies to the car insurance company as "brazen".

Grew was sentenced to a total of 12 months in prison and Bloomer to nine months.