Rapist ex-Met officer given extra life sentence

The 50-year-old was found guilty on Wednesday of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s when he was 14 and raping a former partner 20 years later.

He had already been serving 36 life sentences with a minimum of 32 years after admitting 71 offences of sexual violence committed over a 17-year period.

In a victim impact statement the woman abused as a child told the court she had lived with trauma since childhood: "It has followed me into adulthood".

Carrick had been found guilty of five counts of indecent assault against the woman between April 1989 and August 1990.

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