Serial rapist cop held a handgun to victim’s head
Court hears woman feared for her life after threat
ONE victim of serial rapist police officer David Carrick told how he held a gun to her head and said he would be the last thing she saw.
Carrick, 48, lured the woman to his flat saying he was the “safest person” she could be with because he was an officer but then threatened her with the weapon when she tried to leave.
She said in a victim impact statement: “That night, I felt I had encountered evil. I honestly thought he was going to kill me that night.
“I felt lucky to be able to leave the next morning as I didn’t believe I would be doing so. I felt so ashamed, dirty and sick.”
Other women said they had lost trust in the police after their ordeals.
Some of his victims watched from the public gallery at Southwark crown court in south London yesterday as Carrick bowed his head in the dock.
The court heard how he was able to use “power and control” bestowed on him as an officer to carry out a “catalogue of violent and brutal sexual” attacks over 18 years.
Last month, he admitted 49 charges, involving 85 offences, all committed while he worked for the Metropolitan Police.
They included rape, sexual assault, false imprisonment and coercive or controlling behaviour.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC read statements from 11 of 12 victims.
Carrick had been the subject of a string of police complaints when he raped a 37-year-old cleaner who he met on the Badoo dating app in 2018.
She said: “I don’t trust the police any more, if anything went wrong I don’t know whether I would want to call the police.”
A woman who he raped 20 times said she was convinced the police would not investigate her complaint.
Her statement read: “I was too frightened to go to the police as the defendant had drilled it into me that ‘he was the police, he was the law, and he owned me’.”
Another said she “couldn’t see an escape” while he abused her.
The court heard how Carrick used his police baton and handcuffs during attacks. Carrick, who would drink two bottles of wine before going to work, was nicknamed Bastard Dave by colleagues.
He attacked one woman while her 10-year-old daughter was having a sleepover.
Mr Little said: “She begged him not to do it as she knew her daughter and friends would hear. However, the defendant just carried on.”
Carrick raped another partner on a camping trip as his victim’s father asked if she was OK. And he sent an image of himself with a work-issue firearm to a victim, saying, “Remember I am the boss”.
Mr Little said: “If he had the opportunity, he’d rape, sexually abuse or assault them and/or humiliate them.”
Two of the women were kept in a cupboard under the stairs at his home in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, while some were urinated on or hit with a belt. He installed cameras at home to spy on one woman. Mr Little said: “He controlled what she was allowed to eat.”
Carrick worked at the Met from 2001 until he was sacked last month.
In 2009, he became an armed officer with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command.
Carrick, then 28, lured his first victim to his flat after meeting the 20-year-old woman in a south London bar in July 2003. He put an imitation handgun to her head and said “you are not going”.
The next morning she went to a hospital, where a nurse advised her not to report him, saying she had seen other rape victims of police officers and “didn’t think it would be the last”.
Mr Little called for a life sentence with a fixed minimum term.
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she would pass sentence today.