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An arrest warrant has been issued for one-time NRL player Paul Carter after he failed to commence court-ordered community service for domestic violence crimes.
The serial offender was spared jail last December after admitting spitting in his ex-girlfriend's face three times during an alcohol-fuelled night of mayhem the previous year.
Carter had been placed on community correction orders, which included completing 140 hours of community service, instead of receiving a prison sentence.
Police allege Carter has breached those orders by making no attempt to undergo the community service he is legally obliged to perform.
The 31-year-old, whose father is premiership-winning former Penrith Panthers star Steve Carter, was due to face Sydney's Waverley Local Court on Tuesday but did not appear.
An arrest warrant has been issued for one-time NRL player Paul Carter (pictured) after he failed to commence court-ordered community service for domestic violence crimes
Magistrate Jacqueline Milledge said Carter had not attended three community service appointments and had given an unsatisfactory explanation for his absence.
Ms Milledge said despite Carter telling another magistrate in March he would report for community service, he had yet to present himself to work-off any of the 140 hours.
'Not even an hour,' she said, before issuing a warrant for Carter's arrest.
Carter had been arrested in August 2022, two days after he attacked his former partner in his parents' home at Moonee Beach near Coffs Harbour on the NSW mid-north coast.
While being apprehended, the footballer verbally abused police officers, using the bizarre derogatory terms 'f***ot fingers b***h', 'melon-headed ****' and 'devon-head b***h'.
Carter, who played for the Roosters, Titans and Rabbitohs, pleaded guilty in November to domestic violence-related common assault, contravening a restraining order and resisting or hindering police.
Paul Carter (pictured being tackled) was spared jail last December after admitting spitting in his ex-girlfriend's face three times during an alcohol-fuelled night of mayhem the year before
Waverley Local Court heard Carter, his current partner and his ex-girlfriend had gone to Moonee Beach for a family christening at the time of the assault in July 2022.
During the gathering, the victim overheard Carter and his father make
