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Crime · 19 November 2025

Ex-police officer guilty of more sex crimes.

Ex-police officer guilty of more sex crimes.

David Carrick, formerly an armed officer with the Metropolitan Police, has been convicted on nine further sex offences at the Old Bailey. These include the indecent assault of a 12-year-old in the late 1980s and the rape of a woman between 2014 and 2019. Carrick is already serving 36 life sentences with a minimum term of over 30 years for 71 sexual offences against 12 women Hertfordshire Police commended the victims and encouraged others to report incidents. Evidence presented included a 1990 letter where Carrick admitted to child abuse.

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