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Brian Farmer,at the Old Bailey and Danny Fullbrook
Hertfordshire Police
David Carrick now must wait until 2055 before he can apply for parole
Convicted rapist and former Met police officer David Carrick has received an additional life sentence.
The 50-year-old was found guilty on Wednesday of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s when he was 14 and raping a former partner 20 years later.
He had already been serving 36 life sentences with a minimum of 32 years after admitting 71 offences of sexual violence committed over a 17-year period.
In a victim impact statement, the woman abused as a child told the court the trauma had "followed me into adulthood".
Carrick was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault against her between April 1989 and August 1990.
He was also found guilty of two counts of rape against another woman, once in 2019 and once between December 2014 and April 2016, as well as additional counts of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour against her.
Carrick, seen here being arrested by police, shook his head repeatedly as the verdicts were read out
Prosecutor Tom Little KC said Carrick had to be treated as juvenile for the offences against the girl.
He added mitigation was "limited in its nature" and the earliest date of parole had already been set at 2054, when he would be aged 78.
Judge Justice McGowan said: "The sentence I impose today will have little if any practical effect."
She said Carrick had shown a "lack of remorse" and had "cynically" caused witnesses to attend court by denying the charges.
"Your behaviour as a sexual predator began when you were a child yourself," she told him, adding he had "bullied and manipulated" his former partner throughout their relationship.
A statement from the woman abused as a child was read to the court by barrister Gareth Munday, representing the prosecution.
It said: "I don't believe David has any remorse... I don't think I will ever be able to trust anyone completely.
"The effects of these offences are not something I can simply move on from."
