Why wasn't he STOPPED SOONER?

Thanks to women who came forward, police officer David Carrick’s 18-year reign of terror is over

David Carrick has gone down in history as one of the worst sex offenders ever. Like Wayne Couzens, who was jailed for life for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard, Carrick was a serving Metropolitan Police officer, who abused his power to commit crimes. Last week, our columnist Nicola Methven touched upon how nine times he could have been stopped after complaints were filed and ‘investigated’. But time and time again his victims were failed. We speak to one woman who suffered years of abuse at Carrick’s hands, which could have been avoided had he been s

‘HE’D GRIP ME AROUND THE NECK AND SQUEEZE UNTIL I NEARLY BLACKED OUT’

Jane*, 48, was in a relationship with David Carrick for four-and-a-half years.

I often ask myself, why did I fall for such an awful man? Why did I allow myself to be treated so terribly? Unless you’ve been in an abusive relationship yourself, you will never really understand why.

I was with David Carrick for four-and-ahalf years and they were the worst years of my life. In that time he degraded me, humiliated me, raped and abused me and left me feeling so worthless as a human being.

David would force me to clean his house naked, yelling at me to tidy up packets of Viagra and other women’s underwear, and force me to perform sex acts on him. It seemed he got his thrills out of controlling me and witnessing my vulnerable state.