{"id":685256,"date":"2026-01-09T20:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685256\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T20:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:49:14","slug":"man-60-admits-sending-abusive-messages-to-england-lioness-jess-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685256\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 60, admits sending abusive messages to England Lioness Jess Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"

9 Jan 2026, 18:18 Updated: 2h ago <\/p>\n

Nigel Dewale sent the posts to the footballer’s TikTok account during the Uefa women\u2019s Euro 2025 tournament last summer<\/p>\n

9 Jan 2026, 18:18 | Updated: 2h ago <\/p>\n

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A man has admitted sending ‘totally abhorrent’ social media messages to England defender Jess Carter during last summer’s Euros.<\/p>\n

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\nAlamy
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A 60-year-old man has admitted sending abusive social media messages to England footballer Jess Carter.<\/p>\n

Nigel Dewale, of Great Harwood, Lancashire, sent the posts to Carter\u2019s TikTok account during the Uefa women\u2019s Euro 2025 tournament last summer.<\/p>\n

In one post, he wrote: \u201cWomen\u2019s football is diabolical. Should not be on national TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrownies are racist murders (sic), fiddlers and groomers. End ov (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n

He also posted: \u201cRacist card again. Always brownies faking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis women\u2019s football should not be on TV. Waste of airtime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A man has admitted sending ‘totally abhorrent’ social media messages to England defender Jess Carter during last summer’s Euros.<\/p>\n

Picture:
\nAlamy
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Carter, 28, was part of the successful Lionesses squad that successfully defended their title last summer.<\/p>\n

Dewale appeared at Blackburn Magistrates\u2019 Court on Friday where he pleaded guilty to sending a malicious message via a public communications network between June 19 and June 23.<\/p>\n

He also pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon, namely an extendable baton, in a private place in February last year.<\/p>\n

Magistrates adjourned the case until March 25 for pre-sentence reports and warned Dewale, of Prospect Street, that all sentencing options were open, including custody.Dewale was granted unconditional bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9 Jan 2026, 18:18 Updated: 2h ago Nigel Dewale sent the posts to the footballer’s TikTok account during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-685256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}