Met policeman David Carrick charged with further rapes

David Carrick appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in relation to the new charges

A Metropolitan Police officer accused of a string of sex offences has appeared in court on further charges linked to another four victims, including six counts of rape.

David Carrick, of Hertfordshire, has been charged with nine further offences, bringing the total to 29.

The charges relate to eight women for alleged offences between 2009 and 2020.

The 47-year-old denied 20 of the charges in court in December, but has not entered pleas on the new charges.

The Crown Prosecution Service said the latest charges were six counts of rape, one count of attempted rape, one count of assault by penetration and one count of coercive and controlling behaviour between 2009 and 2018.

In a hearing into the new charges at Westminster Magistrates' Court, chief magistrate Paul Goldspring sent the case to St Albans Crown Court, where Mr Carrick appeared last month via video-link from Belmarsh prison.

At December's hearing, it was alleged he had raped one woman he met on dating app Tinder and falsely imprisoned another in a cupboard under the stairs.

He is due to appear at St Albans again later this month, with a provisional trial date set for April.

The 29 charges he faces are:

• 13 counts of rape

• five counts of sexual assault

• three counts of assault by penetration

• three counts of coercive and controlling behaviour

• two counts of false imprisonment

• one count of attempted rape

• one count of attempted sexual assault by penetration

• one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent

Mr Carrick was based within the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command and has been suspended from duty.

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