Convictions

Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick received another life sentence on Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of abusing a twelve year old girl in the late nineteen eighties and raping a former partner decades later.

Carrick who is fifty had already been serving thirty six life sentences with a minimum term of thirty two years for seventy one offences of sexual violence committed across seventeen years. The new sentence adds to a criminal record that prosecutors describe as one of the most severe ever brought against a British police officer.

Carrick was convicted of five counts of indecent …