David Carrick: Metropolitan Police sack serial rapist police officer

A serial rapist who utilized his relation arsenic a Metropolitan Police serviceman to enactment fearfulness into his victims has been sacked by the force.

The Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has apologised for failings and told BBC Breakfast opportunities to region Carrick from policing were missed.

Carrick was dismissed astatine a misconduct proceeding connected Tuesday morning.

Hywel Jenkins, counsel for the commissioner, told the proceeding that the offending was "heinous, targeted and deliberate" and the interaction connected victims and their families could beryllium "summed up successful 1 connection - catastrophic".

In the seat for the hearing, the Met's Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe said she was successful nary uncertainty Carrick's actions amounted to gross misconduct.

She said: "Carrick's aggregate convictions for aggregate superior offences plainly discredits the constabulary work and undermines nationalist assurance successful it."

Carrick did not be the hearing, did not respond to the disciplinary charges and did not person ineligible representation.

He served arsenic an equipped serviceman successful London with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command and was suspended from work erstwhile helium was arrested successful October 2021.

His crimes, which included 24 counts of rape, spanned 2003 to 2020 and astir took spot successful Hertfordshire, wherever helium lived.

Meeting immoderate of the women connected dating websites, Carrick, from Stevenage, would power what they wore, what they ate, wherever they slept and helium adjacent stopped immoderate of them from speaking to their ain children.

The Met apologised aft it emerged Carrick was brought to the attraction of constabulary implicit 9 incidents including allegations of rape, home unit and harassment betwixt 2000 and 2021.

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