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A ‘predatory and controlling’ Scotland Yard officer sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl when he was a teenager and repeatedly raped a woman decades later, a court heard.
David Carrick, 50, has already admitted a large number of sexual offences against 12 women committed over a 17-year period, jurors were told.
But he is now on trial for alleged sex attacks on the girl in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a woman with whom he was in an alleged coercive and controlling relationship.
He would hold his hand over the schoolgirl’s mouth to stop her screaming as he abused her – sometimes twice a week - over an 18-month period when he was aged between 14 and 16, the trial heard.
On another occasion he is said to have ‘trapped’ her between a chair and a sofa to abuse her.
Carrick was a serving police officer when he raped the woman between December 2014 and April 2015 then repeatedly forced her to perform sex acts on him in 2019, prosecutors said.
The woman initially did not report his offences because he worked for the Metropolitan Police - but after Carrick was prosecuted in 2023 she decided to come forward, Tom Little KC, prosecuting, said.
Mr Little said that the alleged victim told her mother what was being done to her when she was 14.
And Carrick allegedly admitted the abuse in a letter that was later recovered from her medical records.
In the note, Carrick allegedly wrote that the girl was ‘not crazy,’ and that what she had claimed was true – but he had stopped four months before it was written.
‘I know how (the girl) must feel. That's why I stopped and promised I would never go near her again and I have kept that promise and I always will,’ he allegedly wrote.
‘Sorry to you and especially sorry to (the girl) but she does not have to worry ever again. Please do not try to talk about it.’
More than 20 years later, he allegedly raped and sexually assaulted a woman with whom he was in a ‘toxic relationship’, jurors heard.
Opening trial at the Old Bailey, Mr Little said: ‘This case that you are now trying is primarily about sexual offending committed many years apart by this defendant.
‘But in respect of all the offending, whenever it was committed, the defendant was, we say, very predatory and controlling.
‘This was not isolated offending but part of a pattern which the defendant perpetrated over many years.’
Carrick met the woman via a dating app in 2014, the court heard. He pinned her down when she asked him to stop having sex and ‘said words to the effect of “you are not going anywhere”,’ Mr Little said.
‘That was plainly rape,’ the prosecutor added.
‘He then rolled over and apologized and hugged her. She was crying. The defendant then became upset and started crying. They did not talk about it, and they went to sleep.’
The alleged victim was in pain for six weeks afterwards, Mr Little said.
‘She did not know who to tell or whether anyone would believe her and so she did not tell anybody,’ he added.
‘Given that he was a Met Police officer it may be obvious and understandable that she took the view that at that point she would not be believed.’
Carrick and the woman got back in touch in 2019 and began a short relationship again, during which Carrick forced her to perform sex acts on him and also urinated on her when she asked him not to, Mr Little said.
The relationship came to an end after a fight spilled out onto the street in September 2019 when the woman refused to get naked and wait in Carrick’s bed, jurors heard.
‘They were on the stairs, he grabbed her hair and tried to pull her down the stairs, she fought back trying to get him off,’ Mr Little said.
‘At one stage she was holding onto the banister, which got broken. The neighbours came out and separated them and then police arrived.’
The woman did not report Carrick at the time as feared she would not be believed, Mr Little said.
‘However, that changed following the prosecution of David Carrick in 2022 and 2023,’ Mr Little said.
The woman told police about the alleged forced sex acts and said he had also strangled her while the couple were on holiday in Turkey.
When Carrick was interviewed in November 2023, he said the schoolgirl was a ‘liar’ and claimed that no sexual abuse occurred.
And he insisted that all sexual activity with the woman was consensual.
Mr Little told jurors: ‘It is to be noted that there are a number of stark similarities between the conduct that she alleges and that upon which he was previously prosecuted and pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023.’
Bearded Carrick, who wore a black suit in court, shook his head as some of the allegations were read to jurors.
He denies five counts of sexual assault relating to the girl in 1989 and 1990 and two charges of rape, one of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour towards the woman between 2014 and 2019.
The trial continues.