Rapist ex-Met officer guilty of more sex offences

Ex-Met Police officer David Carrick was already serving multiple life sentences after admitting sex offences in court in 2022 and 2023

Serial rapist and former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl and a former partner.

The 50-year-old, who has already been jailed for life, has been convicted of molesting the girl in the late-1990s and raping the woman during a relationship more than 20 years later.

Jurors at the Old Bailey found him guilty of nine offences and he is due to be sentenced on Thursday.

Carrick, from Stevenage, is already serving a minimum term of 32 years in prison, having admitted 71 offences of sexual violence committed over a 17-year period.

Carrick, wearing a suit and tie, was joined by four prison officers in the dock.

He shook his head repeatedly in the dock as the verdicts were read out.

The jury deliberated for five hours before finding him unanimously guilty of the following offences:

• Five counts of indecent assault against a girl under 16 between April 1989 and August 1990

• Two counts of rape against a woman, once between December 2014 and April 2016 then between January and December 2019

• Sexual assault against the same woman between January and December 2019

• Coercive and controlling behaviour in relation to the same woman between 2016 and 2019

Carrick was tried at the Old Bailey in London

Lawyer Shilpa Shah, who led both prosecutions by the Crown Prosecution Service against Carrick, has issued a statement about the latest court case.

"It was clear from the compelling testimonies given by these women that they had endured relentless abuse to which they did not consent," she said.

"One victim was a child when she was indecently assaulted and another was sexually abused by him while he served as a senior police officer.

"These factors made it vital to prosecute him a second time - not only because of the severity of the crimes and the public interest arising from him being a police officer when he committed some of them, but also to show the full extent of his offending which spanned decades."

Written confession

Hertfordshire Police praised the victims for their bravery and urged any others to come forward.

During the trial, jurors heard how Carrick abused a young girl for about 18 months before she told her mother what was going on.

Carrick confessed to that abuse in a letter which was recovered from his medical records and signed "Dave".

The court also heard how the other victim had been in a "toxic relationship" where she had been repeatedly raped.

A police interview with that woman was played in court where she described how Carrick had strangled her, called her abusive names and kicked her out of the house.

She said their relationship was "quite traumatising - I wish I'd never met him".

Carrick declined to give evidence in the current Old Bailey trial, but he had denied the new charges, whereas he admitted the previous charges during the court appearances in 2022 and 2023.

Prosecutor Tom Little KC told jurors his silence in the dock was "deafening".

Despite his written confession, Carrick dismissed the new allegations of child abuse, claiming the girl was a liar.

Regarding his ex-partner, he had claimed during an interview at Full Sutton prison that the sex had been consensual and accused her of being motivated by the MeToo movement.

The sentencing hearing is due to begin on Thursday morning.