A WOMAN has been jailed for running brothels for a second time.

Edwina Christian-Stockwell, 59, served a year-long sentence for running a brothel in Oxford's Cranham Street in 2013.

Now, she has been jailed after running eight brothels in Exeter and Torquay.

She moved to Devon after her release, setting up the first new brothel in early 2017.

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Christian-Stockwell would make £80 a night per room by renting flats and houses, and then sub-letting space to sex workers from eastern Europe and Thailand.

Her 70-year-old husband Michael Stockwell, and son Richard Christian, 33, helped collect rents and launder the profits.

The mother-of-four, previously of Lakefield Road, used a daughter to run her business in Oxford.

She made £120,000 over two years in Devon, with police finding £3,588 in cash hidden in a daughter’s school bag.

She admitted eight counts of managing a brothel and two of possession or conversion of criminal property, and was jailed for two years and eight months at Exeter Crown Court.

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Her husband collected rent on one occasion and almost £18,000 of the profits went through his bank account.

A total of £117,000 went through the couple’s accounts in the 21 months before police shut down the business in March 2020.

Christian-Stockwell also got her son to collect rent from five of the properties when he told her he was struggling to make a living from his sandwich business.

Stockwell admitted converting criminal property, and was jailed for nine months, suspended for 18 months.

Christian admitted five counts of assisting in the management of a brothel and one of converting criminal property, and was jailed for 18 months, suspended for two years.

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