London Police Officer Admits To Being A Serial Rapist

After admitting to 49 charges, including 24 counts of rape over an 18-year period, a serving officer in London's Metropolitan Police, David Carrick,48, has rekindled calls for immediate reform in the United Kingdom’s largest police force.

Most of his offenses occurred in Hertfordshire, where he resided, and they occurred between 2003 and 2020.

In his personal life, he told his victims, "You are my slave," and then utilized authority over them to torture them and degrade them in the most heinous ways possible. Carrick warned them that they would never be taken seriously since it would be their word against the word of an active officer.

When one woman made the decision to report Carrick, he was eventually stopped. She contacted police in Hertfordshire, where Carrick lived and committed many of his crimes, in October 2021 as a result of headlines surrounding sacked Met Police officer PC Wayne Couzens.

The woman explained how she had met Carrick on the dating app Tinder a year ago. He claimed to have met famous people, including the prime minister, and that he handled firearms during their initial contact. He also displayed his police warrant card to her. He mentioned his pet snake as well. He told her he wanted a a submissive woman.

She claimed that after serving her drinks, he escorted her to a hotel room where he raped her. Carrick was detained and put on trial.

At his first court appearance, he refuted the charge, but since he was a defendant in a legal proceeding, Carrick's identity was made public. The investigation's principal investigator, Det Ch Insp Iain Moor of the Hertfordshire Constabulary, refers to the initial complainant as a trigger.

Carrick's numerous victims, who had previously been intimidated and kept silent, gradually started to speak up after seeing him ultimately in the dock. Det Ch Insp Moor claims that the probe "snowballed." The initial complainant had no idea that she would enable so many women to expose the monster hiding behind the mask of law and order.

After it was discovered that Carrick had been brought to the attention of the Met and three other forces nine times, the Met issued an apology.

Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gray, the Met's lead for professionalism, said: "We should have spotted his pattern of abusive behaviour and because we didn't, we missed opportunities to remove him from the organisation.

"We are truly sorry that being able to continue to use his role as a police officer may have prolonged the suffering of his victims.

"We know they felt unable to come forward sooner because he told them they would not be believed," reports BBC.

The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) stated Carrick’s case one of the "most shocking" it’s ever seen.

CPS Chief Crown Prosecutor Jaswant Narwal said, "The scale of the degradation Carrick subjected his victims to is unlike anything I have encountered in my 34 years with the Crown Prosecution Service."

“I commend every single woman who courageously shared their traumatic experience and enabled us to bring this case to court and see justice served,” Narwal continued while speaking outside Southwark Crown Court Monday, reports CNN.

In December, Carrick reportedly entered pleas of guilty to 43 charges, including 20 instances of rape.

Carrick acknowledged raping nine women—some repeatedly over the course of months or years—and using violence in several of the offenses that would have physically hurt them.

BBC reports, Carrick's full list of offences are:

• 24 counts of rape
• nine counts of sexual assault
• five counts of assault by penetration
• three counts of coercive and controlling behaviour
• three counts of false imprisonment
• two counts of attempted rape
• one count of attempted sexual assault by penetration
• one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent
• one count of indecent assault

Following the Carrick case, women's rights organizations demanded an investigation into the Met.

Domestic violence advocacy group Refuge in the UK dubbed Carrick's offenses "utterly abhorrent."