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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 between December 2014 and April 2016 then in 2019, as well as additional counts of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour against her.
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