good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a serving metropolitan police officer has been revealed as one of the britain s most prolific sex offenders after he admitted dozens of rapes and sexual offences over a period of almost 20 years. 48 year old pc david carrick was working as an armed officer in the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command. pc carrick has pleaded guilty to 49 offences against 12 women including 2a counts of rape. the met has apologised after it emerged he had come to the attention of police over nine alleged incidents. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. david carrick, the serial rapist and violent sexual predator who for 20 years wore a police uniform. in his private life he told his victims, you are my slave, as he controlled and abused them, subjecting them to appalling acts of degradation. this is devastating for the victims that had to go through the pain and suffering at the hands of a serving police officer. this i
pc carrick had pleaded guilty to some offences where he would imprison some of his victims, two of them, and in one particular case one woman told police that he put her in a cupboard under his stairs multiple times in his house, he would keep her there, times in his house, he would keep herthere, intimidate times in his house, he would keep her there, intimidate her, times in his house, he would keep herthere, intimidate her, humiliate herthere, intimidate her, humiliate herand herthere, intimidate her, humiliate her and he decided when she could come out of that cupboard. and the detective from hertfordshire constabulary who led the investigation, dci iain moor, said investigation, dci iain moor, said in relation to the size of that cupboard that the woman was kept in, that he had seen bigger dog crates. shocking, abusive behaviour that we can now, as i say, report on today, a serving metropolitan police officer, a serial rapist and a violent sexual predator who carried out these att
to the bulk of them and today here at southwark crown court he again changed his pleas from not guilty to guilty for the remaining charges that were due to go to trial next month and that is why we can now report the full details of this case. in terms of the control that he had over these women, asjune mentioned in her report, he would use his position as a police officer to threaten, to intimidate these women, so that they were scared, they were fearful of going to the authorities. and just to give you some examples of what he would do to these women, the details of which are shocking, he would control what some of the women wore, what they ate, where they slept, he stopped some of them from speaking to men and even their own children. and june touched on it in her report, pc carrick had pleaded guilty to some offences
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a serving metropolitan police officer has been revealed as one of the britain s most prolific sex offenders after he admitted dozens of rapes and sexual offences over a period of almost 20 years. 48 year old pc david carrick was working as an armed officer in the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command. pc carrick has pleaded guilty to 49 offences against 12 women including 2a counts of rape. the met has apologised after it emerged he had come to the attention of police over nine alleged incidents. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. david carrick, the serial rapist and violent sexual predator who for 20 years wore a police uniform. in his private life he told his victims, you are my slave, as he controlled and abused them, subjecting them