Former Met officer David Carrick claims woman made up claims because of ‘MeToo Movement’
Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick claimed a woman made allegations against him because of the “MeToo movement”, a court heard.
The 50-year-old convicted sex offender is on trial accused of molesting a girl in the late 1980s and raping a woman during a toxic relationship more than 20 years later.
Jurors at the Old Bailey heard the new allegations came after Carrick pleaded guilty to 71 counts of sexual violence against 12 different women over 17 years in 2022 and 2023.
The offenses included 48 rapes, as well as attempted rape, indecent assault, assaults by penetration and sexual assaults.
He also admitted three charges of controlling and coercive behavior towards women, the Old Bailey was told.
In November 2023, police visited Carrick at Full Sutton prison in Yorkshire and interviewed him about new allegations against him, according to agreed facts read to the court.
Carrick denied the woman’s allegations against him and said their sex was consensual, jurors heard.
He also denied assaulting her and claimed Hertfordshire Police failed to investigate when he assaulted her and caused criminal damage to her home, ending their relationship.
Jurors were told police filed a domestic assault report for him as a suspect in that case.
Asked what led Hertfordshire Police to believe he was a suspect, Carrick said: “This is a corrupt police force making up their own stories. Anti-Meth rhetoric.”
Asked if he was controlling the woman, he said: “Oh shit, it’s the same story over and over again, isn’t it?
“It’s the same story you sold to the media and they just copied the same story over and over again, that’s what it’s all about.”
Asked if he had made up the woman’s allegation of controlling behaviour, he said: “Yes, because of the Me Too movement.”
He said that the woman is always in control during sexual intercourse and that if the woman had said “no” she would have stopped immediately.
Carrick was also asked about allegations that he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl.
He told police the incident was being investigated by Wiltshire Constabulary at the time and there was a record of what happened.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC told jurors that checks had been made with Wiltshire Police and there was no record of any police investigation into any allegations made by the girl in 1989 or 1990.
As part of a set of facts agreed by both defense and prosecution lawyers, jurors were told Carrick had worked for the Metropolitan Police since 2001.
Carrick has denied two charges of rape between 2014 and 2019, including one of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behavior towards women.
The defendant, formerly of Stevenage in Hertfordshire, denied five charges of sexual assault against the girl in the late 1980s.
None of the alleged victims in the case can be identified for legal reasons.
At the end of the prosecution case, Mrs Justice McGowan adjourned the Old Bailey hearing until Monday, November 17.
