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Undercover police officers snare 'gift card' predator
Lancashire Evening Post
|June 25, 2025
A dangerous sexual predator who wanted to witness the abuse of a child in exchange for payment via gift cards has been jailed.
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David Mitchell thought he was messaging somebody else with a sexual interest in children, but was in fact speaking to a police officer.
A court heard the 57-year-old, from Leyland, “openly stated a preference for victims as young as eight” to the undercover officer, before he was arrested at his home on February 17.
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