Cop Gives Rapist Ride Home, Faces Misconduct Hearing

0:00On March 18th, a former metropolitan police officer faces a misconduct hearing for giving serial rapist David Carrick a ride home from the station right after his arrest on rate charges. The 51-year-old armed officer is now serving 37 life sentences for assault on more than a dozen women over years. This took place on July 17th, 2021, when Carrick was first detained after a woman reported repeated rapes during their five-month. Relationship, Detective Sergeant Ray McKinnon, then with the professional standards unit, attended the station, interviewed Carrick, then drove him and a welfare. Officer back to his home in Stevenage. Prosecutors call the lift clear preferential treatment for Carrick over the victim, with no real need for it since they could have arranged their own. Transport. McKinnon denies any favoritism, insisting he was just assessing the investigation fairly. Meanwhile, the hearing revealed McKinnon flagged discrepancies in the woman's account, her talk of revenge motives, and supervised the probe.

1:02Without pushing key lines of inquiry, officials accuse him of grave dereliction of duty, possibly tied to bias over the complainant's sex or race. If gross misconduct is found, McKinnon could face dismissal as the tribunal digs deeper into early failures that let Carrick offend longer before. His full crimes came to light.