David Carrick: Rapist ex-Met Police officer found guilty of sexually abusing 12-year-old girl
Former police officer David Carrick guilty of sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl
- Former police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in the late 1980s and raping a former partner.
- The Old Bailey trial heard Carrick molested the girl over an 18-month period, holding his hand over her mouth, and later confessed in a letter recovered from his medical records.
- He was also convicted of two further charges of rape, one of sexual assault, and coercive and controlling behaviour towards a woman between 2014 and 2019.
- These new convictions follow Carrick's previous guilty pleas in 2022 and 2023 to 71 sexual offences, including 48 rapes, against 12 women over 17 years.
- The prosecution highlighted that Carrick, who had felt "invincible" as an officer, was revealed to be a child abuser from an early age whose offending escalated over decades.