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A mother-of-two who endured three years of hell at the hands of PC David Carrick is set to sue the Metropolitan Police in a landmark legal bid.
The constable, 48, was this week exposed as one of Britain's most prolific rapists after admitting 49 charges against a dozen women, including 24 counts of rape, while serving with the force between 2003 and 2020.
The victim, who lives in Hertfordshire and would like to remain anonymous, blames the force for 'failing to investigate' the disgraced officer who could have been stopped on nine different occasions.
'The police knew what he was like. They didn't investigate properly,' she told The Mirror.
A mother-of-two who endured three years of hell at the hands of PC David Carrick is set to sue the Metropolitan Police in a landmark legal bid
The constable, 48, was this week exposed as one of Britain's most prolific rapists after admitting 49 charges against a dozen women, including 24 counts of rape
'Nothing will change what happened to me and the other women but I want to take legal action because maybe that will make the police sit up and act in future.'
The woman met Carrick through Tinder in 2017 and described him as 'someone I could trust'.
However, she told the newspaper how he became violent on their first date saying Carrick grabbed her by the neck and tried to lift her top.
He also made her clean his house naked and sexually assaulted her on walks in the woods near his home.
Carrick forced her to take part in bondage and, after Wayne Couzens was arrested in 2021, threw away his sex toys.
She added: 'People will be asking, "Why did she keep going back?" No-one knows how we feel unless they go through it. People being abused still go back to the abuser.'
A Met Police spokesperson said: 'The duration and nature of Carrick's offending is unprecedented in policing.
'But regrettably he is not the only Met officer to have been charged with serious sexual offences in the recent past.
'Our work to identify and rid the Met of corrupt officers is determined and focussed.
'As the Commissioner has said, we will continue to be relentless in our pursuit of those who are engaged in corrupt or criminal behaviour using all the available tactics and techniques at our disposal.'
The victim, who lives in Hertfordshire and would like to remain anonymous, blames the force for 'failing to investigate' the disgraced officer
The woman met Carrick through Tinder in 2017 and described him as 'someone I could trust'
Carrick had faced complaints about his behaviour before he joined the force 22 years ago and numerous other times throughout his career, but no action was taken.
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