Met Police officer to stand trial over alleged sex attacks on four women

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A Metropolitan Police officer is set to go on trial after he was accused of carrying out sex attacks on four women.

PC David Carrick, 46, from Hertfordshire, is alleged to have raped one woman he met on dating app Tinder, falsely imprisoned another in a cupboard beneath his stairs and sexually assaulted three of the complainants by urinating on them.

He has been suspended from duty and faces 20 charges relating to the incidents which occurred between March 2017 and September last year.

Carrick, who served with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, appeared at St Albans Crown Court in Hertfordshire on Friday via video-link from Belmarsh prison.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges related to the four women.

The charges include seven counts of rape, five of sexual assault by penetration, two of false imprisonment, two of controlling and coercive behaviour and one of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.

Patrick Hill, defending, did not make a bail application and Judge Michael Kay QC remanded Carrick in custody.

The judge set a provisional trial date of April 26 for the case which is expected to last around six weeks at St Albans Crown Court, although it may be heard at the Old Bailey.

Carrick will next appear in court for a mention hearing on January 28.