A Metropolitan Police officer has appeared in court accused of carrying out sex attacks on three more women.

PC David Carrick, 46, who has been suspended from duty, was last month remanded in custody after he was charged with raping a fourth woman he met on dating app Tinder in St Albans in August last year.

Carrick appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court by video-link on Friday (November 26) from high security Belmarsh prison.

He spoke to confirm his name and date of birth before a summary was read out of 13 further charges brought by Hertfordshire Constabulary relating to three women, who cannot be identified because they are alleged victims of sex offences, said to have taken place between January 2017 and July 2020.

The new charges include three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual assault by penetration and two counts of coercive and controlling behaviour.

Carrick, who served with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, was also charged with one count of false imprisonment, one count of attempted sexual assault by penetration and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.

Carrick, of Stevenage, was not asked to enter pleas to any of the charges and Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring sent the case to St Albans Crown Court to be joined with the charge of rape relating to the fourth woman, which he denies.

His lawyer Patrick Hill made no application for bail and the senior district judge remanded Carrick in custody ahead of a hearing on December 3.

Mr Goldspring said: “Mr Carrick, you face 13 charges. Charges 11 and two are either way offences but are related to the other 11 charges, which are indictable only and therefore I have to send those charges to the Crown Court.

“The related matters, because they are related, I must also send to the Crown Court.”