Rapist ex-Met officer given another life sentence

David Carrick, a convicted rapist and former Met police constable, has been given an additional life term. On Wednesday, the 50-year-old boy was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 12-year-girl child in the 1980s when he was 14 and raping - a former spouse 20 years later. With a minimum of 32 years after admitting to 71 charges of sexual assault committed over a 17-year period, he was already serving 36 life terms. The woman who was abused as a child told the court that the trauma had followed me into adulthood, in a victim impact statement.

Carrick was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault against her between April 1989 and August 1990. He was also found guilty of two counts of rape against another woman, once in 2019 and twice between December 2014 and April 2016, as well as additional charges of sexual harassment and coercion and controlling behavior against her.

Carrick had to be treated as juvenile for the charges against the child, according to prosecutor Tom Little KC. The relief was limited in its kind, he said, and the earliest date of parole was already set in 2054, when he would have turned 80.

The sentence I impose today will have no practical effect, if any.

Judge McGowan said: I have no intention of doing anything useful.Carrick had demonstrated a lack of remorse and had cynically caused witnesses to attend court by refusing the charges, according to She.You started acting as a sexual predator when you were a child,she told him, adding that he hadbullied and manipulated" his former partner throughout their relationship.

Barrister Gareth Munday, who represented the plaintiff, read a testimony from the woman who was abused as a child to the court. I don't believe David has any regrets, the song continued. I don't think I'll ever be able to trust anyone completely. "The consequences of these offences are not something I can simply get out of.

Since Carrick had pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to other sexual offences, the new charges were brought to light. Carrick denied the charges, calling the now-adult woman a liar, and insisting that sex with his ex-partner was consensual. During the trial, jurors learned how Carrick assaulted the teen girl for about 18 months before she told her mother.