David Carrick was convicted after a \u0022catalogue of violence and brutal sexual offending\u0022 in a sustained campaign of abuse against women.
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He appeared in the dock of London’s Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday as Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb imposed a life sentence with a minimum term of 32 years minus the time he has already served.Article content Carrick sat impassively in the dock of London’s Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday as Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb told him: “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 authorized to bear a firearm in the execution of your duty.
Carrick had previously come to police attention over nine incidents including accusations of harassment, assault and rape between 2000 – the year before he began training with the Met – and October 2021, when he was first charged..The London force, which dismissed Carrick last month, has previously apologized for failing to spot his pattern of abuse earlier.
Mark Rowley, Britain’s former counter-terrorism police chief, who was appointed as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to clean it up in July last year, has vowed to try to restore trust in the force. Prosecutor Tom Little told the court on Monday that some of the 49 charges covered multiple incidents and that Carrick admitted “no less than 71 instances of serious sexual offending”, including 48 rapes.
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