Alleged victim of ex-Met Police officer speaks at trial
Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick, who's from Stevenage, denies attacks on a girl in the late 1980s and rape charges against another woman.
A woman who alleges she was sexually abused by former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick as a child said, "God help anyone with him with a warrant card," after discovering his career in law enforcement, a court has heard.
Carrick, 50, is currently on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting the woman in the late 1980s when she was aged between 12 and 14. Carrick himself was a teenager at the time.
The prosecution also presented allegations that, more than two decades later, Carrick raped another woman on multiple occasions during what they described as a "toxic relationship," which included a sex act she did not consent to.
At the start of the trial, the prosecution described how Carrick allegedly put his hand over the complainant’s mouth to prevent her from screaming during the assaults. One incident reportedly left her "trapped" between a chair and a sofa as she tried to escape.
According to the prosecution, when the girl was 14, she told her mother what had been happening. Carrick allegedly made admissions about his actions in a letter found within his medical records and signed “Dave.”
The note reportedly stated that the girl's claims were "true" and that Carrick had stopped the abuse around four months earlier.
In police interviews, Carrick denied any allegations of sexual abuse and described the complainant as a liar, jurors were told.
During the trial, the jury heard that Carrick, from Stevenage, is already a convicted sex offender. In 2022 and 2023, he admitted to a large number of sexual and other crimes involving nearly all of the 12 women he knew.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC told jurors that these crimes included no fewer than 71 instances of sexual violence against 12 women over 17 years.
Carrick denies five counts of sexual assault relating to the first complainant in 1989 and 1990. He has also pleaded not guilty to two charges of rape, one of sexual assault, and coercive and controlling behaviour connected to the second complainant between 2014 and 2019.
Neither of the alleged victims in this case can be named for legal reasons.
The trial continues.