In his closing speech, prosecutor Tom Little KC said Mr Carrick’s silence was “deafening”.
He told jurors: “The cold reality of this case is the man in the dock, a Met police officer for decades, started his abuse when he was a teenager.
“When he was a serving officer, he was a serial rapist, a serial sex offender, and a coercer and controller of women he was in a relationship with.”
The prosecutor told jurors not to lose sight of what Mr Carrick did for a living, saying it must have made him feel “invincible”.
He said the “real David Carrick was then unmasked” in 2022 and said his “Mr nice guy” image did not stand up to the “grim reality” that he would commit criminal offences “at will”.
Mr Carrick has pleaded not guilty to two charges of rape, one of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour towards the woman between 2014 and 2019.
The defendant has denied five counts of sexual assault relating to the girl in the later 1980s.
The Old Bailey trial continues.
