A predatory ex-police officer who molested a 12-year-old girl and raped a former partner has been jailed for life, on top of the 36 life sentences he’s already serving for other sex crimes.
Serial sex offender David Carrick sexually assaulted the child in the 1980s, when he was 14, and confessed to the crime in a note that was undiscovered for 35 years.
The former armed officer in the Met police was also found guilty on Wednesday of repeatedly raping and abusing a former partner more than 20 years later.
Carrick is already in jail after pleading guilty to 71 sex crimes in 2022 and 2023, including 48 rapes against 12 women.
The defendant denied the fresh allegations but declined to give evidence at the Old Bailey.
It took just five hours of jury deliberations before he was found guilty yesterday of five counts of indecent assault relating to the girl in the late 1980s.
During the trial, jurors heard Carrick abused the child for about 18 months before she told her mother.
He confessed to that abuse in a letter recovered from his medical records that was signed ‘Dave’, which the senior investigating officer said could have changed the course of history had police known about it at the time.
In the note, Carrick wrote that the girl was ‘not crazy’ and that her account was true.
He said: ‘I know how [the girl] must feel. That’s why I stopped and promised I would never go near her again and I have kept that promise and I always will.’
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His victim told jurors of her horror when she found out he was a police officer.
She said: ‘When I heard he was a Metropolitan police officer, the words I have always used were: “God help anyone with him with a warrant card.”‘
Despite the written confession, Carrick dismissed the new allegations of child abuse and claimed the girl was a liar.
Jurors also found the former armed copper guilty of two counts of rape, and one count of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour towards the second victim between 2014 and 2019.
She met him on a dating website before entering into a ‘toxic relationship’ with Carrick.
Jurors heard from the police interview with her played on court, where described how Carrick strangled her, kicked her out of the house and called her abusive names.
However in an interview at Full Sutton prison the former armed officer accused her of being motivated by the MeToo movement and said the sex had been consensual.
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