Man pleads guilty to sending 'abhorrent messages' to England women's footballer Carter

Nigel Dewale with an address at Prospect Street, Great Harwood, northwest England, entered a guilty plea to one charge of malicious communications and possession of a weapon in a private place at Blackburn Magistrates' Court on Friday. His admission came after the UK Football Policing Unit launched an investigation last July into abuse directed at Carter. Dewale is due to be sentenced on March 25. Mark Roberts, the football policing lead for the National Police Chiefs' Council, said: "Everyone is responsible for what they do and say...