Rapist Met police officer David Carrick is being investigated over an alleged sex attack when he was 13 and another five women have come forward since he was jailed – as his mother says she has no plans to visit him in prison.
Carrick, 48, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years in February after carrying out a string of ‘violent and brutal’ sex attacks against at least a dozen women over more than two decades as a police officer.
But detectives are now understood to also be probing an alleged sex attack committed when Carrick was a 13-year-old – potentially widening the known timeline of his heinous crimes.
It comes as his mother has said she ‘still loves him’, but admitted: ‘I just don’t know why he has done it’.
She told The Times that, although Carrick is ‘still my boy’, she has no plans to visit him in prison and has not seen him for ten years.
Carrick, 48, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years in February after carrying out a string of ‘violent and brutal’ sex attacks against at least a dozen women
Carrick pictured performing a martial arts pose while he was serving in the army as a 19-year-old
Detectives are now understood to be probing an alleged sex attack committed when Carrick was a 13-year-old
Jean said: ‘I just don’t know why he has done it. He should have been caught a long time ago. I know he has let himself down but the Met didn’t support him very well.
‘They gave him a gun and put him in that position. Why would they do that? Now he has lost everything.’
She recalled how Carrick was ‘a normal’ and ‘good boy’ in school, but even as a child he ‘liked to get his own way’.
He became increasingly distant after his parents split, while his mother’s new partner would regularly beat her.
Carrick developed a passion for martial arts, enjoyed skateboarding and was described as ‘popular’ with ‘plenty of girlfriends’ by one schoolfriend.
But he grew to become increasingly cocky and, aged 16, mved out of the family home in Salisbury to nearby Amesbury.
He worked in a Co-op before serving in the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and the Royal Logistics Corps aged 16.
Prior to joining the Metropolitan Police, Carrick was reported to the forced over alleged burglary and theft at his ex-girlfriend’s home, but the matter was dropped when he agreed to return the items and pay for the damage caused to the property.
The same partner then reported him over alleged malicious phne calls, but Carrick was not arrested.
Despite both incidents having been reported, he passed the Met’s vetting system and became a police officer in August 2001.
During his probationary period, Carrick faced further allegations that he harassed and assaulted an ex-girlfriend, but no action was taken other than being spoken to abut his behaviour.
Between 2002 and 2008, he worked as a response officer for Merton in south west London – his first posting.
The Met received five complaints from the public regarding his conduct, including unnecessary use of CS spray, unprofessional behaviour and aggression during a stop and search.
Carrick, who routinely carried firearms as an officer, threatened at least two of his victims with guns
David Carrick, pictured here in a court sketch at Southwark Crown Court on February 6, 2020, ahead of the prolific rapist’s sentencing
Friends believe Carrick enjoyed the power of being a police officer and recall how he would often flash his warrant card during nights out.
‘I’m a police officer, you’re safe with me’ would also became an integral part of his patter, something he could trip out as part of his charm offensive when he met a woman for the first time.
His first known rape took place in 2003, two years after joining the Met, when he invited a 20-year-old woman to his flat after telling her a housewarming party was taken place.
When they arrived, there was no such gathering and he held her against her will for hours – including putting a gun to her head.
It was nearly 20 years until the victim felt the courage to approach police after seeing his name in the media in connection with another alleged sex attack.
One of Carrick’s victims was a female officer after being assigned to a traffic patrol team.
The woman, now an experienced detective, recalled attending Carrick’s flat share in south London to find a messy bedroom and photographs from his time in the army.
She consented to having sex, but was instead anally raped and felt scared he would become increasingly violent.
She reported the rape in 2021 and revealed how she felt ashamed for not having done so sooner.
David Carrick, pictured, was jailed for a minimum of 30 years after admitting to rapes and sexual offences against multiple women
Following the rape of his colleague, Carrick met a barmaid in 2008. She later joined the police and they purchased a house together, but he would rape her multiple times during their relationship.
The following year, Carrick was assigned to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection unit, where he would boast to friends that he had protected the prime minister – a lie.
Within months of being given a firearm, he was accused of abusing a girlfriend, but the case was dropped when the victim and a third party no longer wished to proceed.
Later the same year, Carrick attempted to rape a married school friend following a school reunion event, before meeting a further two victims at a martial arts club.
In 2015, he raped another schoolfriend he became reacquainted with via a dating app – sometimes within earshot of the woman’s young daughter.
Two years later, he underwent another vetting process, but only declared a single incident – that he had been given three points on his driving licence for speeding.
Between March 2017 and January 2019, he continued to work as a police officer and raped and abused a mental health nurse he was in a relationship with.
Carrick was a serving police officer at the time of all of the offences and was working for the Met at the time of his arrest
Images were released for the first time showing a tiny cupboard that Carrick locked one of the woman in as a form of punishment, as well as a whip he used on the victim.
Carrick set up surveillance cameras which he used to monitor some of his victims at his home
A court would later hear how he hit the woman with a whip and shut her in a small cupboard as punishment while ‘whistling at her as if she was a dog’.
Carrick raped a cleaner in 2018 and a further two victims he met on dating websites.
He was arrested in July 2021 after one of the woman contacted Hertfordshire Police, but no further action was taken when she dropped the complaint.
It would not be until October later the same year when a victim , inspired by the words of Sarah Everard’s mother after she was raped, kidnapped and murdered by another Met officer Wayne Couzens, that Carrick would finally be charged with an offence.
As the incident was reported and his name appeared in the media, a further five women came forward reporting abuse.
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As detectives probed the incident, they became ‘staggered’ at the enormity of his offending.
Carrick was placed on remand at HMP Belmarsh after being charged and was interviewed in prison by two female detectives.
They said that, initially, he appeared a ‘very charming person’, but became more ‘controlling’ as the interviews progressed.
Since the sentencing, a further five women have come forward with allegations of sex crimes
Carrick would eventually plead guilty to 49 offences including rape, coercive and controlling behaviour, sexual assault and false imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court.
Justice Cheema-Grubb slammed Carrick for taking ‘monstrous advantage of his position’ while serving as a Metropolitan Police officer for more than 20 years.
She told Carrick that he ‘behaved as if you were untouchable’, adding it was a ‘spectacular downfall for a man charged with upholding the law’ having lost his liberty, job and status.
Following his sentencing, Home Secretary Suella Braverman branded his crimes a ‘scar on our police’, while Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said: ‘David Carrick’s crimes were unspeakably evil. The detail is harrowing.’
Since the sentencing, a further five women have come forward with allegations of sex crimes.
Detective Chief Inspector Iain Moor, of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire’s major crime unit, said he beliees more victims are yet to come forward.
Police are working with the Crown Prosecution Service to explore more criminal charges.
The handling of complaints made to police during Carrick’s career is also under review.
