London — London's Metropolitan Police pressure provided a public apology on Monday after a serving officer admitted to finishing up intercourse assaults on a dozen ladies over an almost two-decade interval. Constable David Carrick, 48, has admitted to 49 offenses in whole, together with 4 counts of rape, false imprisonment and indecent assault on which he entered responsible pleas Monday.
In whole, Carrick has now admitted in court docket to 24 counts of rape, two counts of tried rape and 14 counts of sexual assault, along with the opposite expenses, most of which had been associated to sexual violence or coercion.
Britain's PA Media information company stated Carrick admitted in court docket to raping 9 ladies, some on a number of events over months or years, and to having locked a few of his victims in his dwelling with out meals and forcing them to wash his home bare. He stated he whipped one lady with a belt, urinated on a few of his victims and advised them after they might eat and sleep in a sample of violence and controlling conduct spanning 18 years.
Carrick used on-line courting websites together with Tinder and Badoo to satisfy a few of his victims, after which used his place of authority to achieve their belief, in keeping with PA's account of the court docket proceedings.
The Assistant Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police, Barbara Grey, stated authorities ought to have achieved extra after his conduct was reported years in the past, and added that the pressure was "actually sorry" for lacking alternatives to take away Carrick from his place.
The officer had been dropped at the eye of British authorities over 9 incidents, together with allegations of rape, home abuse and harassment between the years 2000 and 2021, however was solely suspended from the Met police pressure after being arrested over a second rape grievance in 2021.
Carrick had denied an extra rely of rape in September 2020, regarding a lady whose allegation triggered the investigation. British prosecutors determined it was not within the public curiosity to proceed to trial on the cost at the moment.
Carrick's abuses are simply the newest in a critical of scandals which have engulfed London's Metropolitan Police over the previous two years.
The rape and homicide of 33-year-old advertising govt Sarah Everard in March 2021 by then-Met officer Wayne Couzens introduced world scrutiny and sparked widespread protests throughout the U.Okay. in opposition to violence in opposition to ladies.
Couzens assaulted Everard after falsely arresting her underneath the guise of imposing coronavirus lockdown restrictions that had been in place on the time. He was sentenced to life in jail in September 2021.
The previous Commissioner of the Met, Cressida Dick, resigned in February of final 12 months after Mayor of London Sadiq Khan expressed dissatisfaction with the police's response to the Everard case.
In her resignation assertion, Dick stated that Everard's homicide had "broken confidence" within the Metropolitan Police.
Responding to the newest revelations about Carrick's crimes, Khan stated "critical questions should be answered about how he was in a position to abuse his place as an officer on this horrendous method."
"I stay in shut contact with the brand new Met Commissioner about this case and the work to reform the tradition and requirements of the Met has already began," Khan stated in an announcement on Monday. "It is important that each one victims of crime believe in our police, and we merely should do extra to lift requirements and empower police leaders to rid the Met and all different police companies of these officers who're clearly unfit to serve."