A police officer from a special unit that protects foreign parliamentarians and diplomats pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and illegal detention, indecent assault on a 40-year-old woman in 2003.
David Carrick, 48, admitted to 43 charges against 11 other women, 20 of them for rape, over a 16-year period to September 2020. This has generated a wave of outrage in the British territory that prompted the pronouncement of the Police London Metropolitan which apologized to the victims.
“We have failed and I am sorry. He was never meant to be a cop,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley said.
The institution had heard the accusations of rape, domestic violence and harassment, but had not applied sanctions until October 2021.
The police watchdog is reviewing how police handled the Carrick case and is also looking into other possible misconduct by other police officers.
That includes more than 1,600 cases of alleged sexual offenses or domestic violence, police said.
According to investigators, the officer met some of his victims through dating apps and social events and used his position as a police officer to gain their trust. The sentence is expected to be known in February. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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