The serial rapist and abuser in a police uniform
For 20 years, David Carrick, a serial rapist and violent sexual predator, wore a police uniform and, for much of that time, also carried a gun.
After plying her with drink, he took her to a hotel room where, she said, he raped her. Carrick was arrested and charged.At his first court appearance, he denied the allegation - but, as a defendant in a court case, Carrick's name was made public. Det Ch Insp Iain Moor, of Hertfordshire Constabulary, who led the investigation, describes this first complainant as a trigger.
He went on to rape, sexually assault and abuse a series of women, calling them his prostitutes. He would tell some what to wear, where to sleep and what to eat, sometimes even banning them from food altogether. Some he banned from speaking to other men, or even to their own children. Others he urinated on.
She describes how he began bombarding her with messages that "really creeped me out". "He was weird," she says. "I thought I should be nice to him because he was a police officer - and I was also thinking, surely you can trust a police officer." Carrick joined the Met, aged 26, in 2001, after a spell in the Army. He had passed the vetting procedure despite having twice in the previous year been implicated, although not arrested or charged, in possible offences - including burglary, involving a former partner he had refused to accept he was no longer in a relationship with.
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