David Carrick, a former armed officer with the Metropolitan Police, has been handed a further life sentence for a series of depraved sex crimes, including the molestation of a 12-year-old girl and the repeated rape of a former partner.
A Pattern of Abuse and Betrayal
Carrick, 50, was sentenced at the Old Bailey by Mrs Justice McGowan on Thursday for these latest convictions. The court heard how his offending spanned decades, beginning with the sexual assault of a child in the late 1980s. More than twenty years later, he subjected another woman to a horrific campaign of abuse, raping her multiple times and engaging in coercive and controlling behaviour between 2014 and 2019.
He was found guilty of two counts of rape and one of sexual assault against the woman, alongside five counts of indecent assault relating to the child. Carrick denied these fresh allegations but chose not to give evidence in his own defence.
A Serial Offender Previously Jailed
These latest crimes came to light following Carrick's previous guilty pleas in 2022 and 2023. In those cases, he admitted to a shocking 71 sexual offences, which included 48 rapes against 12 different women over a 17-year period. For those crimes, he was already serving 36 life sentences handed down in 2023, with a minimum term of 32 years.
The judge in the current case sentenced him to life with a minimum of 30 years for the new convictions, which will run concurrently with his existing sentence.
Institutional Failure and Public Outcry
The case has raised serious questions about how Carrick was able to operate as a predatory police officer for so long without being stopped. His position of power and trust within the Metropolitan Police is seen as a key factor that enabled his prolonged abuse.
This sentencing marks another chapter in one of the UK's most disturbing cases of a serving police officer being revealed as a prolific sex offender, further eroding public confidence in the force tasked with protecting citizens.
