I hope the rapist’s sentencing will offer closure to victims, but fear the Met will be weeding out abusive officers for some time, says former senior police officer Jack Malton
I hope the rapist’s sentencing will offer closure to victims, but fear the Met will be weeding out abusive officers for some timeProtesters outside Southwark crown court in London as the sentencing trial of David Carrick begins on 6 February.Protesters outside Southwark crown court in London as the sentencing trial of David Carrick begins on 6 February.Last modified on Tue 7 Feb 2023 07.
I hope that Carrick’s sentencing for his 49 offences will bring some sense of closure to his victims. But it should offer no sense of an ending to the. Because a running thread in the victims’ statements was Carrick’s job. He was not just a police officer who happened to be a rapist – he used his badge, his status, and even his police firearm to threaten and coerce women. “Every time I see a police car,” one victim said, “I freeze and hold my breath.
More than 30 years ago, I voiced my own experiences as a female detective chief inspector to the writer Lynda La Plante, to inform her groundbreaking TV drama, Prime Suspectand its lead character, DCI Jane Tennison . I recounted the bigotry of an institution dominated by white men, and the impact it had on the way police forces investigated crimes, based on lazy assumptions about victims of sexual assaults and domestic violence.
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