{"id":34014,"date":"2026-05-28T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/34014\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:30:27","slug":"watch-how-detectives-caught-pedophile-who-pretended-to-be-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/34014\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: How detectives caught pedophile who pretended to be disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Watch: How detectives caught pedophile who pretended to be disabled\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ww08YaevRFc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWatch: How detectives caught pedophile who pretended to be disabled<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA man who spent years pretending to be severely disabled to avoid justice after being charged with 15 child sex offences against three boys, has been jailed for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>John Siddell, 41, was accused of sexual assaults against the boys aged between four and 14.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a mother whose son was abused by him speaks out for this first time. Her words are revoiced by an actor. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch: How detectives caught pedophile who pretended to be disabled A man who spent years pretending to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[34911,34897,34902,34912,34899,34913,34909,34898,380,379,1369,34906,34896,34903,34905,9456,34901,34908,34910,34900,34904,34907],"class_list":["post-34014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-abuse-allegations-uk","tag-child-abuse-case-uk","tag-child-protection-uk","tag-court-sentencing-uk","tag-crime-documentary-uk","tag-crime-news-uk-provide-your-feedback-on-bizchat","tag-criminal-deception-case","tag-fake-disability-case","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-itv-news-investigation","tag-jailed-for-abuse","tag-john-siddell","tag-justice-system-uk","tag-police-investigation-uk","tag-safeguarding-children","tag-sexual-offences-conviction","tag-survivor-story-uk","tag-true-crime-uk","tag-uk-court-case","tag-undercover-crime","tag-victim-speaks-out"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}