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The Guardian - UK
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Archie Bland

Tuesday briefing: Two decades of failure on PC David Carrick, ‘one of history’s worst sex offenders’

David Carrick Police Mark Rowley Sarah Everard Barbara Gray Pat Cullen Sadiq Khan Shilpa Shah Hertfordshire Police London
Undated handout photo issued by Hertfordshire Police of serving Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick who has pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including 24 counts of rape, against 12 women between 2003 and 2020. Issue date: Monday January 16, 2023.
Undated handout photo issued by Hertfordshire Police of serving Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick who has pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including 24 counts of rape, against 12 women between 2003 and 2020. Issue date: Monday January 16, 2023. Photograph: Hertfordshire Police/PA

Good morning. The case against London Metropolitan police officer David Carrick took 14 months to build. It involved 300 witness statements, and between 3,000 and 4,000 pages of evidence. Yesterday, it concluded in just 12 minutes, as Carrick stood up in the dock at Southwark Crown Court and pleaded guilty to one count of false imprisonment, one of indecent assault and four of rape.

In total, Carrick has admitted 85 serious offences against 12 women, covered by 49 charges – and in their news story, Vikram Dodd and Emine Sinmaz describe Carrick as “one of the worst sex offenders in modern history”.

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