A serving Metropolitan Police officer who worked alongside rapist and murderer Wayne Couzens, has admitted 24 counts of rape and 25 other offences which were carried out over the space of 18 years.
PC David Carrick, 48, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Monday and pleaded guilty to four counts of rape, false imprisonment, and indecent assault, relating to a 40-year-old woman in 2003.
Last month Carrick admitted 43 charges against 11 other women, including 20 counts of rape, between March 2004 and September 2020.
It emerged on Monday, following the dropping of reporting restrictions on the case, that the Metropolitan Police has already apologised to Carrick’s 12 victims.
The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, has already gone on record bemoaning the Met’s poor track record of vetting and monitoring officers and threatening to sack hundreds of officers who did not meet the required standard of behaviour….