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Get you up to speed: Man sentenced for violating ‘sexual risk order’ on Vinted | UK News
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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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.
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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