How did Met Police officer David Carrick get away with it for so long?

Failure to stop one of Britain’s most prolific rapists linked to ‘toxic culture of misogyny’ at force

David Carrick
David Carrick ‘used his position as a police officer to gain the trust of his victims’
(Image credit: Crown Prosecution Service)

Questions are being asked about how a serving Metropolitan Police officer convicted of multiple sexual offences including 24 rapes was allowed to carry on unchecked for so long despite numerous complaints against him over many years.

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