The mother of a police officer who has admitted to being a serial rapist said she reported him following a "serious allegation" made against him when he was a teenager, it is claimed.
David Carrick, 48, pleaded guilty to 49 offences at Southwark Crown Court this morning. This included 24 counts of rape on eight women, as well as false imprisonment, controlling and coercive behaviour and sexual assault.
As reported by the Mirror, the Met Office had received nine complaints about the armed officer - who has targeted at least a dozen women over the course of two decades - but he was still allowed to continue working. His mother Jean has now spoken out and revealed that she also raised a concern about him when he was a teenager.
Carrick had been "normal-ish" while growing up and he did "fairly well" at school, she told The Guardian. She also said she eventually stopped asking about all the girls he brought home as there was "so many" of them and because he "used to change them quite a lot".
But, after a serious allegation was made about Carrick, she also recalled reporting him. “After that, he changed,” Jean told the paper.
“He just sort of kept himself to himself and away from the family. And that’s when I had my two other children.
"I didn’t know this until recently, but my other son told me: ‘He’s a horrible man. He used to kick me on the back of the legs.’”
Carrick worked in a local supermarket after leaving the family home before joining the army at 19 years old, where he served in the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire regiment. His mother, from Salisbury, said she thought he could have joined "because he wanted to carry a weapon".
The sex attacker then went on to join the Metropolitan Police in 2001, where he was nicknamed "B*****d Dave" by his colleagues and boasted about protecting the Prime Minister. Jean separated from Carrick's father when he was a teenager and revealed that she hasn't had contact with her son for about 15 years.
She added: "He just didn’t like my other kids. Maybe it’s jealousy or something, or maybe he blamed me for the break-up of our marriage."
But she was still shocked by his crimes, she said: “He’s still my boy, still my son. I just don’t know why he’s done it. You know, when he was doing well, and now he’s lost everything. He’s going to lose a lot – the Met police, everything.”
Carrick subjected his victims to horrific and degrading attacks - most of which took place in Hertfordshire, where he lived. The former soldier told them that they wouldn't be believed because he was a police officer.
He urinated on some of them, forced one victim into a small cupboard under the stairs at his home, made another drink her own urine and dragged one by her hair before whipping her with a belt. The officer was arrested for rape in July 2021 but was allowed to return to his job until he was finally suspended in October 2021 after a woman came forward and told police that he had raped her after they met on Tinder.
Carrick was arrested and more victims then came forward, including some who had reported him previously. The Met Police has apologised after it was revealed that the sadistic rapist, who was in the Dip Protection command, was allowed to stay on the force despite being accused of rape, assault, harassment, burglary and domestic abuse.
Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gray, the Met’s lead for Professionalism, said: “We should have spotted his pattern of abusive behaviour and because we didn’t, we missed opportunities to remove him from the organisation.
“We are truly sorry that being able to continue to use his role as a police officer may have prolonged the suffering of his victims."
Detectives believe that he may have attacked more women and have appealed to them to come forward.
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