A former Met Police officer who carried out crimes in Wiltshire has been charged with eight sexual offences against two women.

The Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed that David Carrick, 49, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, has been charged with five counts of indecent assault, two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.

In January 2023, Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 charges relating to 12 different women – four of which occurred in Salisbury.

The first three of the Salisbury charges occurred between Friday, August 28 and Tuesday, September 1, 2009, and Carrick admitted to two counts of assault by penetration and one count of attempted rape.

He also pleaded guilty to a rape charge which the court said occurred on Saturday, November 7, 2015.

His behaviour was described by the Crown Prosecution Service as a “relentless campaign of sexually and mentally abusing women.”

Two police officers who failed to adequately investigate the allegations about Carrick five years before the former constable was first arrested were given final written warnings for misconduct.

The investigation into the behaviour of David Tippetts, who was a police sergeant at the time and is now an inspector, and PC Emma Fisher, began in July 2023 following a referral from Wiltshire Police to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).

Wiltshire Police reviewed its systems following Carrick’s conviction and discovered a report from 2016 which had not been investigated thoroughly at the time from a woman who reported that Carrick had abused another female.

PC Fisher spoke to the woman who made the report and later requested the case to be closed, with the approval of her supervisor Sgt Tippetts, but the victim was never contacted about the allegation.

But the IOPC said PC Fisher had updated the force’s computer system to say the woman said the matter had been investigated sometime earlier, despite it never being investigated and no previous record being held on Wiltshire Police’s systems.

Both officers faced a gross misconduct hearing and the panel determined they had breached the police standards of professional behaviour and were imposed final written warnings, which will last for two years.

In February 2023, the 49-year-old, who previously served with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command within the Metropolitan Police, was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years in prison for his offences.

Carrick will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on October 17.