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Darrel Carter, 34, was sentenced to 34 weeks in prison for breaching a sexual risk order after contacting underage girls on Vinted.
Darrel Carter received a 34-week prison sentence at Carlisle Magistrates Court for multiple breaches of his sexual risk order involving contacting underage girls online.
Darrel Carter has been sentenced to an additional 34-week prison term at Carlisle Magistrates Court for breaching his sexual risk order.
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A sexual offender has been sentenced for contacting young women online in violation of a court order. Darrel Carter, 34, admitted to breaching restrictions imposed on him after a past conviction by attempting to flatter dozens of women and girls with compliments.
Prosecutors revealed that Carter used the second-hand shopping platform Vinted to search for bikinis and mid shorts, directly breaching his sexual risk order, which forbade him from contacting anyone under 18. Despite this legal restriction, he engaged with the profiles of numerous young women.
Carter has previously been sentenced for similar violations, including a 20-month prison sentence in 2023 for making contact with a 15-year-old. Following further breaches, he received an additional 27-month term in November 2024. His latest sentencing amounted to 34 weeks, to run concurrently with his existing terms.
Defending him, Ant Wilson expressed concerns about Carter’s declining mental health, noting that he has been “staying in all the time” and was unwilling to meet anyone aware of his convictions.
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Man jailed for breaching ‘sexual risk order’ on Vinted | News UK
A sexual offender has been sentenced after telling young women online ‘how beautiful they were’.
Darrel Carter, 34, breached his sexual risk order after contacting dozens of women and girls online and attempted to flatter them with compliments, a court heard.
He also searched for bikinis and mid shorts on popular second-hand shopping platform Vinted, prosecutors said.
Carter had been banned from contacting any girls under 18 as well as restrictions on his online activity following a court order in 2020.
Carlisle Magistrates Court heard he had since not complied with the order, instead browsing the profiles of dozens of young women and sending them messages, the BBC reported.
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Carter admitted to having failed to give police his username in another breach of his order conditions.
Prosecutor Diane Jackson said Carter had repeatedly breached his sexual risk order since 2023, approaching underage girls and asking them if they had boyfriends.
Carter was sentenced to 20 months in jail for making contact with a 15-year-old girl in 2023.
In November 2024, he was handed a further 27-month prison sentence for breaching a court order.
On Friday he was given another 34-week prison sentence to be served concurrently.
Ant Wilson, defending Carter, said he was ‘staying in all the time’ and that his mental health had ‘gone downhill’.
He added the sexual offender was unwilling to meet anyone who had prior knowledge of his convictions.