Chilling message from rapist copper
RAPIST Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick sent one of his victims a photograph of himself with a work-issue gun, saying: “Remember I am the boss”, a court has heard.
The 48-year-old also used his police baton and handcuffs during attacks on a dozen women over 17 years, a sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court was told on Monday.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC said the ‘systematic’ offending was ‘a catalogue of violent and brutal sexual offences’ and it did not matter to Carrick who the victim was.
“The reality was, if he had the opportunity, he would rape them, sexually abuse or assault them and/or humiliate them,” he added.
Yesterday, Carrick sat with his head bowed in the dock – as protesters gathered outside – to be sentenced over two days for 49 charges, including 24 counts of rape.
His crimes were carried out while he served in the Met, which he joined in 2001 before becoming an armed officer with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command in 2009.
The officer, who guarded sites including embassies and the Houses of Parliament, took training courses, including one on domestic abuse in 2005, the court heard.
Carrick told one woman he met in a London bar in 2003 ‘he was the safest person that she could be with and that he was a police officer’ before taking her back to his nearby flat, Mr Little said. She ‘froze’ when he put a black handgun to her head and said ‘you are not going’ before repeatedly raping her, he told the court.
The woman, who was left with bite marks, bruising and clumps of hair missing, told an A&E nurse she had been raped by a police officer, the court heard.
But she was told she needed to be ‘ready’ if she was going to complain and ‘she might be better to try to put it behind her and move on.’
A woman, who met Carrick on dating website Badoo, described him as ‘acting like a monster when he was in drink,’ which was most of the time.
Another woman, who Carrick met on a night out with other officers, described his ‘heavy drinking’ and said he would down two bottles of wine at home following a night shift before returning to work.
Carrick hit her with a whip and would shut her in a small cupboard as punishment, the court heard.
“He told her that she belonged to him and that she must obey him,” Mr Little said.
“He threatened her with his police baton and sent her a photograph of his work-issue firearm, saying, ‘Remember I am the boss.’”
The prosecutor said the case fell short of meriting a whole-life sentence but called for a life sentence with a fixed minimum term.
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb is expected to sentence Carrick, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, today after he previously pleaded guilty to 49 charges relating to 12 women between 2003 and 2020.