Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick received another life sentence on Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of abusing a twelve year old girl in the late nineteen eighties and raping a former partner decades later.
Carrick who is fifty had already been serving thirty six life sentences with a minimum term of thirty two years for seventy one offences of sexual violence committed across seventeen years. The new sentence adds to a criminal record that prosecutors describe as one of the most severe ever brought against a British police officer.
Carrick was convicted of five counts of indecent assault against the girl between April 1989 and August 1990. In a statement read in court she said the abuse had left lasting trauma that had followed her into adulthood.
The former officer was also found guilty of raping another woman on two occasions. Jurors agreed he attacked her once between December 2014 and April 2016 and again in 2019. He was additionally convicted of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour during the same period.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC told the court Carrick had to be treated as a juvenile for the offences against the girl since he was fourteen at the time. Little said any mitigation was limited and that Carrick already faced a parole date no earlier than 2054 when he would be 78.
Justice McGowan said the new punishment carried symbolic weight even if it would have little practical effect due to Carrick’s lengthy existing sentence.
The former firearms officer was first unmasked in 2022 after a woman reported a pattern of long term abuse prompting a wider investigation that revealed a catalogue of attacks against multiple women. His case triggered renewed scrutiny of police vetting procedures across England and Wales.
Carrick remains in custody and is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison. Further reviews of police misconduct processes are ongoing according to national oversight bodies.
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