He joined the police force in 2001 and worked as an armed officer in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP) branch from 2009 until his suspension and subsequent sacking from his position in 2021.
[4][5] At the time of his birth, Carrick's parents, a cleaner and a Royal Artillery soldier, lived at Bulford military camp in Wiltshire.
[9] Between 2003 and 2020, Carrick abused and raped multiple women he met using the dating sites Badoo and Tinder, often in Hertfordshire.
[3][9] Using his job as a police officer to gain their trust and inflate his apparent importance, he developed several abusive relationships.
[6] Carrick degraded his victims via physical abuse with a belt, imprisonment in small spaces, urinating on them and rape.
[11] In the wake of Carrick's conviction, the Metropolitan Police said the force was re-examining past claims of domestic abuse or sexual offences against its officers and staff, affecting about 1,000 of its 45,000 employees.
On another occasion, B didn't want to have oral sex, as her daughter's friends were staying at the address and they may have heard the couple, however, Carrick forced B to take his penis in her mouth, humiliating her, gagging her, so B struggled to breathe.
Carrick was aggressive to J sexually, raping her anally and orally on many occasions, resulting in J sometimes bleeding from her anus.
J felt unable to cry out for help when her father entered the tent to ask if she was ok. During orally raping J, Carrick would cause her to gag and vomit, but carried on regardless.
One day, when W was cleaning Carrick's shower, he attacked her whilst he was naked, putting his penis in her mouth, where she gagged and was unable to breathe.
[19] On 3 March, Michael Tomlinson, the Solicitor-General for England and Wales, said that he was satisfied sentencing judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb "gave careful and detailed consideration to all the features of this case" when deciding how much time Carrick would spend in prison, and that the sentencing would not be sent to the Court of Appeal for review.
[20] In July 2023 it was announced that six of Carrick's victims were intending to sue the Metropolitan Police for breaching their human rights by failing to investigate properly.
[23] On 18 October 2023, it was reported that a total of 12 serving and former police officers were being investigated for misconduct in relation to the handling of allegations made against Carrick.
[28] Mark Lucraft KC, the Recorder of London, set a provisional trial date of 3 November 2025 and another pre-trial hearing is due to take place on 14 March 2025.