Rapist ex-Met officer guilty of more sex offences

Serial rapist and former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl and a former partner.

The 50-year-old, who has already been jailed for life, has been convicted of molesting the girl in the late-1990s and raping the woman during a relationship more than 20 years later.

Jurors at the Old Bailey found him guilty of nine offences.

Carrick, from Stevenage, is already serving a minimum term of 32 years in prison, having admitted 71 offences of sexual violence committed over a 17-year period.

He is due to be sentenced this afternoon. The court has risen for a short break.

Carrick, wearing a suit and tie, was joined by four prison officers in the dock.

He shook his head repeatedly in the dock as the verdicts were read out.

The jury deliberated for five hours before finding him unanimously guilty of the following offences:

• Five counts of indecent assault against a girl under 16 between April 1989 and August 1990
• Two counts of rape against a woman, once between December 2014 and April 2016 then between January and December 2019
• Sexual assault against the same woman between January and December 2019
• Coercive and controlling behaviour in relation to the same woman between 2016 and 2019

Hertfordshire Police praised the victims for their bravery and urged any more to come forward.

During the trial, jurors heard how Carrick had abused a young girl for around 18 months before she told her mother what was going on.

He confessed in a letter which was recovered from his medical records and signed "Dave".