Carrick sent woman photos posing with gun
A WOMAN has claimed she had a “bizarre” wrong number interaction with serial rapist David Carrick in which he sent her photographs of him posing with a gun before asking if he was her “type”.
The woman, who asked for her identity to be kept anonymous, said the former Metropolitan Police officer messaged her in 2011.
She claimed the text she received was addressed to another woman, prompting her to respond to Carrick suggesting he had messaged the wrong number.
But the woman alleged that Carrick, now 48, responded by introducing himself to her as “a police officer from Stevenage” and sending the photographs.
Two, which the woman kept, show the disgraced Met officer posing in uniform and with a firearm. In one picture, in which Carrick is seen smiling, a blue Metropolitan Police badge attached to his coat is visible.
The woman claimed Carrick became “nasty” in the messages and later ceased speaking to her after she said she lived in Scotland.
The woman said she had since lost the text messages but, after recognising Carrick on the news, had decided to speak out.
She said: “I remember receiving this text from a random number addressed to another woman.
“Obviously whoever it was had the wrong number, so I texted them back saying my name.
“Then they introduced themselves as David Carrick, a police officer from Stevenage.
“He followed this up with two photos of him posing in his uniform holding a machine gun and asked me if he was my type – it was quite bizarre.
“When I saw his face on the news, I instantly recognised him from the photos he sent all those years ago.
“I had saved them in my emails because he was a bit nasty to me and I was worried about any repercussions coming from the conversation. Seeing what’s come out about him now is frightening.”
The woman claims she responded to say she was from Scotland, to which he replied, “Oh I don’t like Scottish people” – and the two never spoke again.
Carrick was dismissed from the Met following a misconduct hearing on Tuesday.
The scale of the former armed officer’s offences was revealed on Monday after he admitted the last of the charges against him.
Carrick, who used his role to instil fear, admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women.
He pleaded guilty to 49 offences across two decades and will be sentenced at a later date.
The Met has apologised for failings over its handling of Carrick.