{"id":266404,"date":"2025-07-16T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266404\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:51:11","slug":"spain-based-paedophile-who-groomed-lancaster-child-online-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266404\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain-based paedophile who groomed Lancaster child online jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A paedophile in Spain who police say groomed and exploited a vulnerable 12-year-old child online &#8220;for his own sordid sexual interests&#8221; has been jailed. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire Police said Thomas Freret targeted the child for sexualised chats, pictures and videos and tried to cover his tracks by telling his victim to delete messages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said the offences took place in Lancaster in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freret, 39, was jailed for six years on Monday at Preston Crown Court after admitting sexual communication with a child, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and breaching a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A paedophile in Spain who police say groomed and exploited a vulnerable 12-year-old child online &#8220;for his own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-266404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114862534617953191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}