Predatory ex-police officer David Carrick has been found guilty at the Old Bailey of molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner.
Carrick, 50, who served as an armed officer in the Metropolitan Police, sexually assaulted the child in the late 1980s.
More than 20 years later, he repeatedly raped a woman and subjected her to “degrading and humiliating” abuse during the course of a toxic relationship.
He had denied the fresh allegations against him, saying that sex with the woman was consensual and claiming the child accuser had lied.
The offences came to light after he pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to 71 sexual offences, including 48 rapes, against 12 women over 17 years.
Carrick, who was handed 36 life sentences in 2023 with a minimum term of 32 years, denied the fresh allegations but declined to give evidence in his Old Bailey trial.
A jury deliberated for five hours to find him guilty of two charges of rape, one of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour towards the woman between 2014 and 2019.
The defendant, formerly of Stevenage in Hertfordshire, was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault relating to the girl in the late 1980s.
Following the verdict, Hertfordshire Police praised the victims’ bravery and urged any more victims of the sexual offender to come forward.
Part of a confession letter written by Carrick in 1990 was shown during the trial. Credit: CPS Handout
During the trial, jurors had heard how Carrick abused a young girl for around 18 months before she told her mother what was going on.
He confessed in a letter which was recovered from his medical records and signed “Dave”.
In it, Carrick wrote that the girl was “not crazy” and that it was “true” but that he had stopped about four months ago.
He wrote: “I know how (the girl) must feel. That’s why I stopped and promised I would never go near her again and I have kept that promise and I always will.”
In a police interview, the now-grown up victim described the young Carrick as “very sly” and “manipulative”.
After she told her mother about the abuse, the matter was “brushed under the carpet like it was nothing”, she said.
Giving evidence in court, she told jurors: “When I heard he was a Metropolitan Police officer, the words I have always used were: ‘God help anyone with him with a warrant card’.”
The second victim met Carrick through a dating website and was aware from the start he was a police officer.
She said he was “charming, witty, sarcastic” and acted like “everyone’s best friend”.
But during their relationship, he became controlling and raped her on multiple occasions.
She told jurors that she had been left traumatised and that Carrick had “ruined” her life and tainted her views on sex and relationships.
When interviewed in Full Sutton prison in Yorkshire, Carrick claimed that sex with the woman was consensual and accused her of being motivated by the MeToo movement.
Despite his written confession, he dismissed the historic child abuse allegations, claiming the girl was a liar.
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