Man gets suspended prison sentence for racist abuse of England defender Jess Carter on TikTok

A man who posted racially offensive online messages about England women’s footballer Jess Carter was given a suspended prison sentence on Wednesday.

Nigel Dewale, a 60-year-old man from Great Harwood in Lancashire, northern England, sent two messages from his TikTok account during the Women’s European Championship last year.

He sent them in response to a news article about police investigating racist abuse on the internet, which Carter had received earlier in the tournament after England’s matches against France and Sweden.

The messages were later traced to Dewale, who was arrested and charged trpk.

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He was sentenced at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court to six weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, after previously pleading guilty to sending a grossly offensive message over a public communications network.

Carter, 28, plays her club football for Gotham FC in the United States. She stopped using social media after the racist abuse and has spoken out about the stereotypes faced by black women in Britain.

Published on March 25, 2026