Darrel Carter approached dozens of girls on Vinted in breach of his sexual risk order banning him from the site (Picture: Cumbria Police/Getty Images)
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, 34, used the shopping app to search the profiles of young girls as well as for bikinis and mid shorts (Picture: Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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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