Sentence of David Carrick.


85 offences against 12 women, over a period of 17 years. A serving copper.

How does this happen? How does a man hate women this much, to this extent? And no-one intervened?

I can't imagine how someone gets as twisted and fucked up as that. He fits the profile of a serial killer, of the type your TV criminologists and psychologists analyse on True Crime shows with a laundry list of psychological disorders, fucked up childhood etc etc.

You've got to ask questions of the culture of a police force that lets him do 20 years in the job without anyone picking up on behaviour and conduct that makes him unsuitable to be a copper. Same with Wayne Couzens. There was sufficient concern about his time at Kent police to not hire him but the Met took him on and gave him a firearm.

As Frankie Boyle said on the radio the other day - The Met's response is always "we're shocked and surprised by these totally unexpected revelations about the officer whose nickname among his colleagues was Dave The Serial Rapist"
 
30 years is absolutely ridiculously short. Adam Johnson got 6 years FFS. Added to that, the two lads in Sunderland last week pretty much got away with murder. Sentencing in this country is a joke.
 
In cases like this where the person is in a position of trust then the sentence should be longer. I think thirty years is about right as long as he does that time.

He has to serve 30 years before being considered for parole.

Then again, he might appeal.
He's also tried to top himself once. Chances are he'll do it again.
 
85 offences against 12 women, over a period of 17 years. A serving copper.

How does this happen? How does a man hate women this much, to this extent? And no-one intervened?
Why should he hate woman? I’ve never thought of rapists as woman haters before. I thought it was about the power.
This is what’s doing me in today, the fact that he’s such a sick bastard that they can’t tell us what he did.

Keep going luv
 
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How do you categorise murder?

The law has always categorised murder.

At one end of the spectrum you have a pensioner putting a pillow over the face of their terminally ill partner. It's illegal but nobody would expect a prison sentence as they aren't likely to do it again. At the other end you have premeditated serial killers who show no remorse.
 
The video of his arrest he's trying to claim it doesn't fit necessity, the snake.

Hopefully he never gets out.
 
This is what’s doing me in today, the fact that he’s such a sick bastard that they can’t tell us what he did.


It feels very much like they’ll trot out the “bad apple, isolated case” line. As if this isn’t part of an entirely unsurprising pattern.
This is a very difficult line for the media for all the reasons she explains in that thread. However, IMHO and after consultation with the victims, full detail should be given. I don't know what it's going to take to make the criminal justice establishment, and wider society, wake up to the horror of the violence that some men dole out to women, and that it's more or less possible to rape with impunity in this country, but maybe showing exactly what these crimes involve will go some way to doing that. Separately I listened today to how Emmett Till's mother insisted his casket was open so that the world could see exactly what a lynching involved, and many argue that in doing so she helped kick off the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Sadly, sometimes we need to show people the full nature of the horror in order to get the change that we so badly need.
 
This is a very difficult line for the media for all the reasons she explains in that thread. However, IMHO and after consultation with the victims, full detail should be given. I don't know what it's going to take to make the criminal justice establishment, and wider society, wake up to the horror of the violence that some men dole out to women, and that it's more or less possible to rape with impunity in this country, but maybe showing exactly what these crimes involve will go some way to doing that. Separately I listened today to how Emmett Till's mother insisted his casket was open so that the world could see exactly what a lynching involved, and many argue that in doing so she helped kick off the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Sadly, sometimes we need to show people the full nature of the horror in order to get the change that we so badly need.
They have been in the sentencing remarks, it's very grim reading.
 
Thanks. Here's one incredibly powerful quote (it's not graphic):

"The police officer you lived with F, and D from your martial arts club, both said they didn’t report being raped because they thought they would not be believed because you were a police officer. This widespread attitude illustrates an astonishing degree of moral corruption in the way that complainants, in sexual offences are seen and treated in society."

I completely agree. As a society, we are guilty of moral corruption in the way we treat victims of sexual offences.
 

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