Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of further offences, including sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl and raping an ex-partner. The 50-year-old, who served as an armed officer, committed the assault on the child in the late 1980s.
During a trial at the Old Bailey, it emerged that Carrick had confessed to the abuse in a note that remained undiscovered for 35 years. The senior investigating officer stated that had police known about it at the time, the course of history could have been changed.
Carrick also faced trial for offences committed more than 20 years later, when he repeatedly raped a woman and subjected her to degrading and humiliating abuse during a toxic relationship. These offences came to light after he had pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to 71 sexual offences, including 48 rapes against 12 women over 17 years.
Carrick, who was handed 36 life sentences in 2023 with a minimum term of 32 years, denied the fresh allegations but declined to give evidence. A jury deliberated for five hours to find him guilty of two charges of rape, one of sexual assault, and coercive and controlling behaviour towards the woman between 2014 and 2019. He was also found guilty of five counts of indecent assault relating to the girl.
Mrs Justice McGowan adjourned sentencing until Thursday. Det Supt Iain Moor, who led the Hertfordshire police investigation, suggested that had Carrick's offending been picked up in 1990, the future would have looked very different.
