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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 7151935" data-attributes="member: 91140">A man who sold alcohol to a child through a company set up on Facebook was given a 12-month community order on Wednesday, police said. Richard Wright, 28, from Carlton in Nottinghamshire, had been trading under the name Booze Monkeys on the social networking site. His Facebook page was set up in 2008 and officers believe he has sold alcohol to a number of under-age drinkers through the website. Wright’s phone number was on the page and customers of any age could contact him and ask him to deliver alcohol to them, according to Paul Horton, Nottinghamshire Police licensing officer. The Facebook page had the tagline: ”Beer delivered to your door … Friday and Saturday 11pm til 4am.” Wright was arrested on February 13 after police and trading standards officers got a 15-year-old volunteer to try and buy a bottle of vodka and two crates of beer from him. A short time after the boy placed the order, Wright delivered the alcohol to him and was then arrested, Nottinghamshire Police said. He was charged with selling alcohol to a person under 18 and selling alcohol without a licence, both of which he admitted. He was sentenced today at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court, where he was told he would also have to complete 100 hours’ unpaid work and pay £85 costs. Facebook said it had now removed the page from its site. A spokeswoman said: ”Marketing alcohol-related content without appropriate age-based restrictions is prohibited. ”Facebook is highly self-regulating and users can and do report content or groups that they find questionable… ”Facebook also regularly works with law enforcement agencies where appropriate.” A ”booze monkey” is defined by the online Urban Dictionary as a ”person of legal drinking age whose task it is to buy alcohol on behalf of persons not of legal drinking age during nights out or other social gatherings”. Mr Horton said: ”We received information that suggested Wright was delivering alcohol orders to under-age children and this was taken very seriously. ”Nottinghamshire Police will not stand for anyone selling alcohol to minors and this prosecution should send out a strong message to others that this type of behaviour will not be tolerated.”</blockquote>

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