David Carrick: Serial rapist PC humiliated victims, court hears

A unfortunate of serial rapist David Carrick has spoken of gathering "evil" erstwhile she was attacked by the Met Police serviceman who carried retired a "catalogue" of intersexual offences.

Carrick utilized his relation to intimidate women, threatening 1 with his baton and sending different a representation of his weapon saying "I americium the boss".

He is being sentenced for 49 offences against 12 women implicit 2 decades.

Carrick would "use his powerfulness and control" to halt victims reporting him.

On the archetypal time of a two-day sentencing hearing, Southwark Crown Court heard statements from Carrick's victims, including from 1 who said: "He was a constabulary serviceman - what wasn't to trust?"

Another said Carrick "drilled into" her that helium was an officer, and she was deterred from raising the alarm.

His crimes see dozens of rape and intersexual offences spanning 2003 to 2020, mostly committed successful Hertfordshire, wherever helium lived.

Opening the case, authoritative Tom Little KC said 48-year-old Carrick told a pistillate helium met successful a London barroom successful 2003 "he was the safest idiosyncratic that she could beryllium with and that helium was a constabulary officer" earlier taking her backmost to his adjacent flat.

Mr Little told the tribunal the unfortunate "froze" erstwhile helium enactment a achromatic handgun to her caput and said "you are not going", earlier repeatedly raping her.

He besides enactment his hands astir the victim's pharynx and "said helium was going to beryllium the past happening she saw".

Mr Little said the pistillate attended infirmary with her injuries. After stating a constabulary serviceman had raped her, a caregiver said "it mightiness not spell to court" and that "she mightiness beryllium amended to effort to enactment it down her and determination on".

"As a result, [the victim] did not study the substance to the constabulary astatine the time," said Mr Little.

In an interaction connection work to the court, 1 unfortunate said: "That nighttime I felt that I had encountered evil."

Another said she had not had a narration since the onslaught by Carrick and that it had "shaped my life".

A antithetic pistillate spoke astir changes successful eating habits and "poisoning myself" done binge-drinking aft encountering Carrick, adding that she had "self-destructive thoughts".

Carrick was sacked by the Met a time aft helium pleaded blameworthy past period and the force's Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has apologised for failings and said opportunities to region him from policing were missed.

It emerged helium had travel to the attraction of constabulary implicit 9 incidents, including rape allegations, betwixt 2000 and 2021.

Mr Little told the sentencing hearing: "If the offending had to beryllium accurately and reasonably summarised - it was systematic, it was a catalogue of convulsive and brutal intersexual offences perpetrated connected aggregate victims, whether helium was successful a controlling oregon coercive narration with them oregon not, oregon adjacent if it was conscionable a azygous occasion.

"It did not substance who the unfortunate was... the world was, if helium had the opportunity, helium would rape them, sexually maltreatment oregon battle them and humiliate them."

He said: "[Carrick] often relied connected his charm to beguile and mislead the victims successful the archetypal spot and would past usage his powerfulness and control, successful portion due to the fact that of what helium did for a living, to halt them leaving oregon see reporting him."

Another pistillate said Carrick deed her with a whip and would unopen her successful a tiny cupboard arsenic punishment portion "whistling astatine her arsenic if she was a dog", the tribunal heard.

The tribunal was told Carrick sent a photograph of himself with a work-issue firearm to her, saying "remember I americium the boss".

A woman, who met Carrick connected a dating website, described him arsenic "acting similar a monster erstwhile helium was successful drink", which was astir of the time.

The tribunal heard Carrick would telephone her his "slave" and erstwhile helium asked her to cleanable his location bare she was "scared" due to the fact that helium was a constabulary officer.

Mr Little said the offences warranted a beingness condemnation with a minimum term, but fell abbreviated of meriting a whole-life order.

The tribunal heard each of the crimes took spot portion Carrick, who lived successful Stevenage, was a constabulary officer, and that helium had undertaken a people connected home unit successful 2005.

In mitigation, defence barrister, Alisdair Williamson KC, told the tribunal Carrick "accepts afloat work for what helium has done".

He said "something has profoundly damaged this man", adding that the suspect "cannot inquire for mercy and does not".

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told the tribunal she would condemnation Carrick connected Tuesday morning.

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