A victim of David Carrick, the serial rapist Metropolitan Police officer, has revealed how she was abused and taken on trips to Downing Street.
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous under the pseudonym Emma, claimed she was handcuffed, whipped with a metal chain, sexually abused and locked in an under stairs cupboard naked as “punishment”.
Carrick, 48, was this week revealed as one of Britain’s worst rapists after admitting more than 80 sex offences, including 47 rapes, before he was arrested in October 2021.
He committed dozens of depraved attacks on at least 13 women in Hertfordshire and London between 2003 and 2020, despite being employed as an armed officer responsible for protecting Parliament and government offices.
In an interview with MailOnline, Emma, a mother-of-three divorcee and care worker, said she met Carrick in 2017 on a night out with friends in her hometown about 50 miles from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, where he lived in an ex-council house.
She told the website: “He broke me. Never in my life have I felt so isolated and alone.
“I was not allowed to see family or friends… I was ridiculed, teased, and shamed. I was told what to wear, what I could eat and what amounts.
“I was instructed to walk behind, not beside or in front. I was whipped; urinated on and locked naked in a cupboard. At times, made to sleep naked on the floor... I was told I was worthless and would be better off dead.”
Emma recalled how Carrick frequently name-dropped the important people he was guarding, such as Theresa May, the then prime minister, and Boris Johnson, the then foreign secretary, and took her on a trip to Downing Street where she posed outside Number 10.
“He would laugh about Boris coming into Downing Street on his bicycle and how he’d always stop and have a chat with him,” she said.
Emma said that with her two daughters living abroad and her adult son in residential care, she quickly became “besotted” with Carrick and moved in with him, as she “felt comfortable around policemen” because her father was a retired detective.
“He said he would protect me, but said ‘I want one thing from you – that’s for you to obey me’,” she added.
She said Carrick’s behaviour “wasn’t sinister at first”, including a whip and police handcuffs, but it soon escalated to “punishments”.
She added: “He would accuse me of stealing money, or talking to some other man and I’d have to be punished. He told me to lie down on my stomach and he’d thrash me with the metal whip. It would leave me red and raw from the shoulders down almost to my knees. It was absolutely excruciating.”
'I am the law,' Carrick told victim
Emma said that Carrick installed CCTV cameras around his house to check up on her, would whistle at her and send her pictures in police uniform and of his gun, and that if she ever suggested she may call the police, he would reply: “I am the police – I am the law.”
In the wake of the Carrick scandal, all police officers will have to undergo an annual “integrity” check to identify any risks of corruption.
The new legally-enforced checks will be part of a new code of practice drawn up by the College of Policing after Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, demanded “stricter and clearer” vetting for officers.
They will have to disclose any changes in their personal circumstances in the previous year such as offences, cautions, new relationships, big purchases like a new home or debts. They risk dismissal if they try to hide any problems.
Meanwhile, Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, has vowed to put more bobbies on the beat than ever before to combat crime in London.
He pledged to deliver “London’s largest ever neighbourhood police presence” as part of a nine-point “turnaround” plan after the force was placed in special measures by watchdogs last year.
