A serial rapist inside the Met police
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
One of the country’s worst sex offenders plead guilty to 48 rapes of 12 women committed over almost 20 years while he was a police officer for the Metropolitan Police. Meanwhile, the force's commissioner revealed that two or three Metropolitan Police officers are facing criminal court appearances every week, warning that lifting the lid on abusive predators would be “necessary and painful”. So how did David Carrick go unpunished for so long and can the Met restore its reputation?
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| 0:00.0 | When the news broke that one of the most prolific sex offenders in Britain had pleaded guilty |
| 0:08.1 | in court, horrifying accounts of rape, sexual abuse and controlling behaviour emerged. |
| 0:16.4 | And a warning, as you'd expect, this episode does contain discussion around those themes. |
| 0:22.8 | What you wouldn't expect is that the man perpetrating these crimes was also working |
| 0:28.4 | as a police officer in the Metropolitan Police. |
| 0:32.8 | This is one of the most shocking cases the Crown Prosecution Service has dealt with involving |
| 0:40.8 | a serving police officer. |
| 0:45.8 | For more than two decades, David Carrick, a serial rapist, hid behind his police uniform, |
| 0:52.5 | telling women nobody would believe them because he was an officer. |
| 0:59.9 | A victim of the serial rapist David Carrick has told Sky News, he used his job as a firearms officer |
| 1:06.6 | to gain her trust before subjecting her to months of physical and mental abuse, telling her |
| 1:12.9 | the safest place you can be is with me. |
| 1:21.3 | Anyone hearing of the 49 counts David Carrick has pleaded guilty to against 12 victims |
| 1:27.8 | would agree the sheer magnitude of his offending is horrifying. |
| 1:35.4 | Prosecutors describe the offenses as a, quote, relentless campaign of sexually and mentally |
| 1:39.9 | abusing women, including attempted rape, sexual assault and possessing a gun to cause fear. |
| 1:50.8 | After the shock, the outrage, the apologies and the promises yet again over a form, one |
| 1:58.4 | question remains unanswered. |
| 2:01.9 | How on earth did this happen? |
| 2:03.9 | What I can do is apologise that over 20 years the Met got this wrong. |
| 2:16.9 | Before listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times, I'm Manvine |
| 2:22.2 | Rana. |
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