Ex-officer Carrick guilty of molesting 12-year-old girl

The predatory former police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner.

- NICOLE WOOTTON-CANE, HOLLY EVANS

Carrick, 50, held his hand over the mouth of the girl to "prevent her screaming" as he indecently assaulted her in the late 1980s, a trial at the Old Bailey heard.

More than 20 years later, the former Met Police officer repeatedly raped a woman and subjected her to “degrading and humiliating" abuse during the course of a toxic relationship.

A serial sex offender, Carrick pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to 71 sexual offences, including 48 rapes, against 12 women over 17 years and is already serving a minimum of 31 years. Following these convictions, the girl and the woman came forward to accuse Carrick of further offences.

On Wednesday, he was convicted of a further two charges of rape, one of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour towards the woman between 2014 and 2019.

Carrick, wearing a suit and tie, shook his head repeatedly in the dock as the verdicts were read out. He appeared to sigh after he heard of being found guilty of raping a former partner.

The 12-year-old girl was in year 7 at school when Carrick started abusing her over an 18-month period in the late 1980s, it is alleged.

She described Carrick as "very controlling" and "nasty”. In a pre-recorded video interview played to the court, she said she "lived in fear" after the sexual assaults began.