Metropolitan Police rapist David Carrick has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years.
Carrick, 48, was accused of 85 offences in total, including more than 20 rapes against 12 victims between 2003 and 2020 while he was a serving officer in an elite and armed unit of the Met.
The judge said his conviction “represents a spectacular downfall for a man charged with upholding the law.”
Ms Cheema-Grubb said: “Behind a public appearance of propriety and trustworthiness, you took monstrous advantage of women drawn into intimate relationships with you.
“You brazenly raped and sexually assaulted many women, some you barely knew.”
Continuing her sentencing remarks, Ms Cheema-Grubb told Carrick he showed an “astonishing degree of moral corruption”.
The judge listed a number of key themes in Carrick’s offending, including asserting authority and enacting “extreme domination” over his victims.
The court also heard Carrick had attempted to kill himself while on remand at Belmarsh prison and was detained in a secure hospital but was found not to be suffering from any mental disorder.
Carrick, who served in the army before joining the Met, previously pleaded guilty to 49 charges relating to a dozen women.
Some are multiple-incident counts, meaning they relate to at least 85 separate offences, including at least 71 sexual offences and 48 rapes.
The charges include 24 counts of rape, nine counts of sexual assault, five counts of assault by penetration, three counts of coercive and controlling behaviour, three counts of false imprisonment, two counts of attempted rape, one count of attempted sexual assault by penetration, one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and one count of indecent assault.
During a two day sentencing, Southwark Crown Court heard Carrick’s defending described as “systematic”.
“It was a catalogue of violent and sexual offences perpetrated on multiple victims, whether he was in a controlling or coercive relationship with them or not or even if it was just a single occasion,” Tom Little KC told the court.
Mr Little said it did not matter to Carrick who the woman was, adding: “The reality was, if he had the opportunity, he would rape them, sexually abuse or assault them and/or humiliate them.”
Impact statements by victims were also read in court. One woman said she felt she had “encountered evil” after being raped by Carrick after meeting him at a bar in London.
David Carrick will serve 30 years in prison
He said “he was the safest person that she could be with and that he was a police officer” before taking her back to his nearby flat.
She “froze” when he put a black handgun to her head and said “you are not going” before repeatedly raping her.
During the attack, Carrick put his hands around her throat and said he would be the last thing she saw.
“That night I felt I had encountered evil,” she said.
Justice Cheema Grubb said Carrick showed a ‘astonishing degree of moral corruption’
Carrick would keep his victims in this cupboard under the stairs
