Met Police officer David Carrick admits to being serial rapist

A Metropolitan Police serviceman has pleaded blameworthy to aggregate rapes and intersexual assaults implicit an 18-year period.

David Carrick, 48, admitted a full of 49 offences, including 24 counts of rape, against 12 women.

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

His offences spanned from 2003 to 2020 and astir took spot successful Hertfordshire, wherever helium lived.

Carrick admitted 4 counts of rape, mendacious imprisonment and indecent assault, relating to a 40-year-old pistillate successful 2003, astatine Southwark Crown Court connected Monday.

It tin present beryllium reported that Carrick had already pleaded blameworthy to 43 charges, including 20 counts of rape, successful December.

After his archetypal blameworthy pleas, the Met stopped his wage and began an accelerated misconduct process, with a proceeding owed to instrumentality spot connected Tuesday.

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