David Carrick (Hertfordshire Police/PA)
(Picture: PA Media)The mother of David Carrick has claimed she raised a concern about her son when he was a teenager following a “serious allegation”.
Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in January 1975, Carrick grew up in the village of Durrington, near Amesbury.
Jean Carrick said he had a “normal-ish” childhood and did “fairly well” at school and had “many girlfriends” growing up.
But his mother, who later had a son and daughter with another partner, said their relationship deteriorated following the allegation, which she did not go into detail about.
She told the Guardian: “After that, he changed. He just sort of kept himself to himself and away from the family.
“And that’s when I had my two other children. I didn’t know this until recently but my other son told me ‘he’s a horrible man. He used to kick me on the back of the legs’.”
She added: “He just didn’t like my other kids. Maybe it’s jealousy or something, or maybe he blamed me for the break-up of our marriage.”
She added that the rape case had devastated her, saying: “He’s still my boy, still my son. I just don’t know why he’s done it. You know, when he was doing well, and now he’s lost everything.”
Carrick joined the Army aged 19 and served in Cyprus and the Falklands in 1996. He joined the Metropolitan Police in 2001.
Jean added: “He always wanted to join the Army. I think he wanted to travel around. It could also be because he wanted to carry a weapon.”
A former friend described Carrick as a “power freak” who would exploit his position to intimidate women and described how he witnessed the officer flash his warrant card three times after starting fights.
The firearms officer has admitted 48 rapes and a string of other sadistic crimes against 12 women while he was serving with the Met between 2003 and 2020.
