LONDON - A former London police officer was jailed on Tuesday (Feb 7) for more than 30 years for an 'unrestrained campaign of rape and abuse of women' over nearly two decades in the latest scandal to hit Britain's biggest police force. David Carrick, who worked in the Metropolitan Police's parliamentary and diplomatic protection service, used his position to intimidate...
LONDON - A former London police officer was jailed on Tuesday for more than 30 years for an "unrestrained campaign of rape and abuse of women" over nearly two decades in the latest scandal to hit Britain's biggest police force.
“I was too frightened to go to the police to lodge a complaint as had drilled it into me that ‘he was the police, he was the law and he owned me’. I was convinced the police would not believe me,” she said in a written statement. He appeared at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday as Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb imposed 36 life sentences, with a minimum term of 32 years minus the time he has already served.
Cheema-Grubb said Carrick's "unrestrained campaign of rape and abuse of women" had caused "irretrievable devastation". An inquiry set up last year to examine the 2021 rape and murder of Sarah Everard by another serving Met officer will now also look into Carrick’s case to see if any red flags were missed and whether colleagues had any inkling of his offending.
"David Carrick’s crimes were unspeakably evil," Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said in a statement."He subjected these victims and survivors to the most degrading and inhumane treatment and yet they still showed the courage to come forward and to provide the evidence that led to his conviction.
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