David Carrick: Rapist ex-Met Police officer found guilty of sexually abusing 12-year-old girl
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Predatory ex-police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner.
Carrick, 50, held his hand over the mouth of the girl to “prevent her screaming” as he indecently assaulted her in the late 1980s, a trial at the Old Bailey heard.
More than 20 years later, the former Met Police officer repeatedly raped a woman and subjected her to “degrading and humiliating” abuse during the course of a toxic relationship.
A serial sex offender, Carrick pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to 71 sexual offences, including 48 rapes, against 12 women over 17 years. Following these convictions, the girl and the woman came forward to accuse Carrick of further offences.
On Thursday, he was convicted of a further two charges of rape, one of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour towards the woman between 2014 and 2019.
The 12-year-old girl was in year 7 at school when Carrick started abusing her over an 18-month period in the late 1980s, it is alleged.
She described Carrick as “very controlling” and “nasty”. In a pre-recorded video interview played to the court, she said she “lived in fear” after the sexual assaults began.
She said the incidents left her in shock, adding: “I didn’t understand it. I was quite naive at 12.”
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