Met Police officer David Carrick admits to being serial rapist - BBC

A Metropolitan Police equipped serviceman who utilized his relation to enactment fearfulness into his victims has admitted dozens of rape and intersexual offences against 12 women.

David Carrick, 48, who met immoderate victims done dating websites, pleaded blameworthy to 49 offences, crossed 2 decades.

The Met has apologised aft it emerged helium had travel to the attraction of constabulary implicit 9 incidents, including rape allegations, betwixt 2000 and 2021.

A elder serviceman said his offending was "unprecedented successful policing".

Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gray, the Met's pb for professionalism, said: "We should person spotted his signifier of abusive behaviour and due to the fact that we didn't, we missed opportunities to region him from the organisation.

"We are genuinely atrocious that being capable to proceed to usage his relation arsenic a constabulary serviceman whitethorn person prolonged the suffering of his victims.

"We cognize they felt incapable to travel guardant sooner due to the fact that helium told them they would not beryllium believed."

Carrick, who admitted 24 counts of rape, was suspended from work erstwhile helium was arrested successful October 2021.

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

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

Jaswant Narwal, the main crown authoritative for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Carrick held a relation wherever helium was trusted with the work of protecting the public, but yet implicit 17 years, successful his backstage life, helium did the nonstop opposite.

"This is simply a antheral who relentlessly degraded, belittled and sexually assaulted and raped women.

"As clip went on, the severity of his offending intensified arsenic helium became emboldened, reasoning helium would get distant with it."

She said the "scale of the degradation Carrick subjected his victims to is dissimilar thing I've encountered successful my 34 years with the Crown Prosecution Service".

Carrick, who served with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, met immoderate victims done online dating sites specified arsenic Tinder and Badoo, and utilized his relation arsenic a constabulary serviceman to summation their trust.

He 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.

Carrick admitted raping 9 women, immoderate connected aggregate occasions implicit months oregon years, with galore of those attacks involving unit that would person near them physically injured.

Speaking extracurricular court, Det Ch Insp Iain Moor, from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: "The details of David Carrick's crimes are genuinely shocking.

"I fishy galore volition beryllium appalled and sickened by his actions but I anticipation the victims and the nationalist much wide are reassured that no-one is supra the instrumentality and the constabulary work volition relentlessly prosecute those offenders who people women successful this way."

He said helium expects adjacent much victims to travel forward.

Carrick admitted to mendacious imprisonment offences, having connected a fig of occasions forced 1 of his victims into a tiny cupboard nether the stairs astatine his home.

Det Ch Insp Moor, the elder investigating officer, said: "I person seen bigger canine crates."

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

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said helium was "absolutely sickened and appalled" by Carrick's crimes.

He said "serious questions indispensable beryllium answered astir however helium was capable to maltreatment his presumption arsenic an serviceman successful this horrendous manner".

The Prime Minister's authoritative spokesperson said it was "an appalling case" and that Rishi Sunak's "thoughts are with each of [Carrick's] victims".

"We person been clear, determination is nary spot successful our constabulary forces for officers who autumn truthful earnestly abbreviated of the acceptable standards of behaviour and are not acceptable to deterioration the uniform."

Sal Naseem, from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), said nary opportunities to halt Carrick earlier had been identified by constabulary truthful far.

Two retired Met officers who dealt with a 2002 allegation of battle and harassment against Carrick whitethorn person committed misconduct, but arsenic they cannot look misconduct proceedings, the IOPC decided it was not successful the nationalist involvement to instrumentality further action.

Carrick's afloat database of offences are:

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