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• Former Met officer David Carrick jailed for life over rapes

Here’s more on those comments Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb made earlier to Carrick (see 11.46am). She said:

These convictions represent a spectacular downfall for a man charged with upholding the law and empowered to do so even to the extent of being authorised to bear a firearm in the execution of his duty.

Behind a public appearance of propriety and trustworthiness you took monstrous advantage of women.

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Source: The Guardian