A serial sex offender is now behind bars, but his ability to evade justice has only fuelled a growing distrust and anger toward police in the United Kingdom. How may failures have prevented David Carrick from being stopped sooner?
David Carrick, a serial sex offender, served in one of Britain's most elite armed police units for years. He is now behind bars, but his ability to evade justice has only fuelled a growing distrust and anger toward police in the United Kingdom. CNN has investigated how failures may have prevented Carrick from being stopped sooner.
CNN has spoken to more than a dozen police officers from multiple forces in England and examined the Met's own guidelines on handling misconduct, to identify how Carrick's abuse could have been prevented. It was only when another woman came forward in October 2021 to report Carrick for rape that he was finally charged and Nunes da Silva decided to reopen her case.
CNN analyzed the DPS' Standard Operating Procedures: Each complaint has to meet a certain threshold of severity to be considered misconduct. This includes behaviour that "amounts to a criminal offence," which could be considered applicable to grabbing a woman's neck. The man in charge of the DPS at the time was Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matthew Horne. Horne was himself found to have committed gross misconduct for bullying and threatening staff prior to joining the DPS. He was then accused of trying to access information on the misconduct investigation into him.
In the DPS' Standard Operating Procedures, the first step upon receiving a complaint is to "check Centurion for previous complaints." If this process had been followed, CNN has established the 2019 incident would have been flagged on Carrick's record. Notably, Nunes da Silva brought her complaint at a time when police were aware of intense public scrutiny of their actions toward women. Earlier that year, police officer Wayne Couzens had brutally kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard, in a case that horrified the nation, prompted public protests and sparked a national debate about violence against women. Couzens served in the same elite police unit as Carrick for two years.
That "monster" became clear during Carrick's sentencing when Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb read out evidence concerning a small extent of his abuse. The court heard how he had threatened victims with his firearm, sending one a photo of his weapon with a message reading, "remember I am the boss."
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