Judge slams David Carrick for taking 'monstrous advantage of women'

‘You behaved as if you were untouchable’: Judge slams David Carrick for taking ‘monstrous advantage of women’ while working for the Met Police – as she sentences him for horrific sex attacks on 12 victims

• Rapist police officer, 48, set to be jailed for life today at his sentencing hearing 
• READ MORE: His victims bravely speak about the hell they had been put through

A judge has slammed David Carrick for taking ‘monstrous advantage of his victims’ while working the Metropolitan Police as he faces being jailed for life for horrific sex attacks on 12 women.

Protesters gathered outside Southwark Crown Court where Carrick, one of Britain’s worst known sex offenders, is being sentenced after pleading guilty to 49 charges, including 24 counts of rape. 

Some of his victims had bravely attended court to watch as Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb sentenced the 48-year-old from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on Tuesday. 

The disgraced officer wore a dark suit, white shirt and tie and was flanked by two police officers as he appeared in the dock in front of a packed courtroom at a hearing that will be televised.

In her opening remarks, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said Carrick had taken ‘monstrous advantage’ of his victims with whom he had ‘brutal, controlling and coercive relationships’ with.

She told Carrick that he ‘behaved as if you were untouchable’, adding it was a ‘spectacular downfall for a man charged with upholding the law’ having lost his liberty, job and status.

Former Met Police officer David Carrick pictured in court yesterday as details of some of his horrific crimes emerged including how he used ‘power and control’ to carry out ‘violent and brutal’ sex attacks

Some of his victims had bravely attended Southwark Crown Court to watch as Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb (pictured) was sentencing the 48-year-old from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on Tuesday

She said: ‘These convictions represent a spectacular downfall for a man charged with upholding the law and empowered to do so even to the extent of being authorised to bear a firearm in the execution of his duty.

‘Behind a public appearance of propriety and trustworthiness you took monstrous advantage of women.

‘You brazenly raped and sexually assaulted a number of women, some very brutally, and you behaved as if you were untouchable.

‘You were bold and at times relentless, trusting that no victim would overcome her shame and fear to report you.

‘For nearly two decades, you were proved right but now a combination of those 12 women, by coming forward, and your police colleagues, by acting on their evidence, have exposed you and brought you low.

‘You have lost your liberty, your job and your status. You have before you the prospect of a difficult time in custody for many years.’

Continuing her sentencing remarks, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told Carrick he showed an ‘astonishing degree of moral corruption’.

The judge listed a number of key themes in Carrick’s offending, including asserting authority and enacting ‘extreme domination’ over his victims.

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb also highlighted the ‘reluctance of victims to report your offending’ because of their knowledge of his ‘status as a police officer’.

The judge spoke of the ‘irretrievable devastation’ Carrick’s crimes has had on his victims, including ‘long-lasting psychological harm’ and ‘damaged mental health’

She said: ‘Each one is traumatised, one woman feels as those she has been lost for the last 19 years.’ 

Details of some of Carrick’s horrific crimes were heard in court yesterday, including how he sent one of his victims a photograph of himself with a police-issue gun, saying: ‘Remember I am the boss.’

Images were released for the first time showing a tiny cupboard that Carrick locked one of the woman in as a form of punishment, as well as a whip he used on the victim.

Details of some of Carrick’s horrific crimes were heard in court yesterday, including how he sent one of his victims a photograph of himself with a police-issue gun, saying: ‘Remember I am the boss.’

On Monday, his victims bravely told the court of the hell they had endured, with one saying she felt she had ‘encountered evil’ after being repeatedly raped by Carrick who put a black handgun to her head and put his hands around her throat.

The serial rapist had boasted to the victim that ‘I am the safest person you can be around, I’m a police officer’ in order to get her back to his London flat.

Another said she was convinced because of his position as a diplomatic and parliamentary protection officer she would be not be believed if she reported him, saying she had had it drilled into her ‘he was the police, he was the law and he owned me’.

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Photographs showing the cupboard under the stairs where serial rapist David Carrick locked one woman naked as punishment and surveillance cameras set up at his home to spy on his victims have been released. 

The court heard yesterday how Carrick used cameras he installed at home to monitor women while he was at work. 

He made another woman choke on her vomit, assaulted one with a sex toy and urinated on one of his victims.

The armed officer tortured and abused women for 17 years despite coming to police attention nine times before his arrest and developing the nickname ‘B*****d Dave’ at work.

He called women ‘fat and lazy’ and treated them like as his ‘sex slaves’ as well as controlled them financially.

Victims were isolated from their family and forbidden from speaking with other men.

The former firearms officer also used his police baton as a threat and handcuffs in an attack.

Carrick’s crimes were all carried out while serving with the force – he guarded sites including embassies and the Houses of Parliament, and completed training courses, including one on domestic abuse in 2005.

At the first day of his sentencing hearing on Monday, the court was told that the disgraced officer used his ‘power and control’ to stop his victims leaving or reporting him.

Prosecutor Tom Little KC said the ‘systematic’ offending was ‘catalogue of violent and brutal sexual offences’. 

One victim said she was told by an A&E nurse that ‘the law tend to protect their own’ when she revealed she was raped by a police officer.

Others told how they feared they would not be believed if they reported Carrick and no longer trusted the police after what he had done to them.

David Carrick, pictured here in a court sketch at Southwark Crown Court on Monday

The former Met Police officer, pictured here in uniform and holding a gun, abused a dozen women over the course of nearly 20 years 

Carrick, who joined the Met in 2001 before becoming an armed officer with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command in 2009, pleaded guilty to 49 charges, including 24 counts of rape.

Images were released for the first time showing a tiny cupboard that Carrick locked one of the woman in as a form of punishment, as well as a whip he used on the victim.

Carrick set up surveillance cameras which he used to monitor some of his victims at his home

Mr Little said a search of Carrick’s electronic devices revealed searches for pornography including words such as ‘extreme’ and ‘painful’.

The 49 charges admitted by Carrick include 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 and one count of indecent assault.

READ MORE: ‘The law tend to protect their own’: Warning of A&E nurse to victim of sex monster cop David Carrick who told her to ‘move on’ after she revealed she was attacked by a police officer 

 

Some are multiple-incident counts, meaning they relate to at least 85 separate offences, including at least 71 sexual offences and 48 rapes.

He denied a further count of rape in September 2020 relating to a 13th woman, whose allegation triggered the investigation, with the Crown Prosecution Service deciding it was not in the public interest to proceed to trial.

Mr Little said the case fell short of meriting a whole-life sentence – because he had not killed anyone and pleaded guilty – but called for a life sentence with a fixed minimum term.

Alisdair Williamson KC, defending, said Carrick ‘accepts fully responsibility for what he has done’ and that it is likely any life sentence will ‘bring him close to, if not to, the close of his natural life’.

He told the court: ‘He cannot ask for mercy and he won’t ask for mercy.’

The Met was forced to apologise and admit Carrick should have been rooted out earlier after it emerged he came to police attention over nine incidents – including allegations of rape, domestic violence and harassment – between 2000 and 2021, with all but one of the incidents relating to his behaviour towards women.

Carrick faced no criminal sanctions or misconduct findings and police chiefs across England and Wales have since been asked to have all officers checked against national police databases by the end of March.

He was finally sacked from the force last month after pleading guilty and being unmasked as one of the country’s most prolific sex offenders.

Carrick’s crimes are set to form part of the independent inquiry looking at the murder of Sarah Everard, who was raped and strangled by then-serving Met officer Wayne Couzens in March 2021.

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