David Carrick: Metropolitan Police sack serial rapist police officer - BBC

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 Met sheet 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.

Speaking successful the House of Commons aft his ceremonial dismissal, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said Carrick had carried retired "a monstrous run of abuse".

"It is captious that the Metropolitan Police and different forces treble down connected their efforts to basal retired corrupt officers; this whitethorn mean much shocking cases travel to airy successful the short-term," she said.

The location caput said the lawsuit would present besides beryllium considered successful the inquiry, chaired by Dame Elish Angiolini KC, which was acceptable up to look into the abduction, rape and execution of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens.

Carrick 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.

At Tuesday's hearing, the adjunct commissioner said the nationalist absorption showed however his behaviour had "gravely undermined" assurance successful the police.

Ms Rolfe added that the lawsuit had caused nationalist harm, peculiarly to women and girls who whitethorn beryllium little apt to "come guardant and study they person been the victims of transgression offences."

Sir Mark told BBC Breakfast: "What he's done to his victims is genuinely abhorrent. Their courageousness successful coming guardant is genuinely admirable. But we've fto London down - he's been a constabulary serviceman for 20 years.

"Through a operation of anemic policies and anemic decisions, implicit those 20 years we missed opportunities erstwhile helium joined and subsequently, arsenic behaviour came to the fore, we should person removed him from policing.

"Whether it would person affected him being a enactment offender I don't know, but helium shouldn't person been doing it arsenic a constabulary officer."

The Met said a full of 1,633 cases of alleged intersexual offences oregon home unit involving 1,071 officers and different unit were being reviewed from the past 10 years to marque definite the due decisions were made.

Former Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales, Vera Baird, who resigned from her station past year, said: "The Metropolitan Police look incapable of not employing - and moreover retaining - immoderate rather evil people."

Speaking successful Commons earlier, the location caput said: "Yesterday was a acheronian time for British policing and the Metropolitan Police arsenic an serviceman admitted being liable for a monstrous run of abuse."

She said it was "intolerable for [the victims] to person suffered arsenic they have. They were manipulated and isolated and subjected to horrific abuse".

"For anyone to person gone done specified torment is harrowing, but for it to person happened astatine the hands of idiosyncratic they entrusted to support radical harmless is astir beyond comprehension," she added.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan it was "unacceptable" that "there were assorted opportunities wherever the accidental to get escaped of [Carrick] and get justness were missed".

Speaking connected Tuesday, helium said: "That is 1 of the things that Sir Mark Rowley is getting to the bottommost of. The world is determination are truthful galore taste issues wrong the constabulary service."

Mr Khan besides said determination would beryllium efforts to portion Carrick of his constabulary pension.

Guidance from the Home Office states that up to 65% tin beryllium forfeited if a condemnation was "committed successful transportation with their work arsenic a subordinate of a constabulary force" and has been certified by the location caput arsenic "liable to pb to a superior nonaccomplishment of assurance successful the nationalist service" oregon "gravely injurious to the interests of the state".

The premier minister's spokesperson said Rishi Sunak told a gathering of the furniture "the constabulary indispensable code the failings that happened successful this case, reconstruct nationalist confidence, and bash everything imaginable to guarantee women and girls are harmless successful their communities and homes".

Carrick pleaded blameworthy to six offences astatine Southwark Crown Court connected Monday, and had already admitted 43 others successful December.

He is owed to beryllium sentenced successful February.

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