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good afternoon, welcome to the bbc news channel. a serving metropolitan police officer has admitted hes a serial rapist who carried out sex attacks over almost two decades. pc david carrick, a member of the diplomatic protection squad, has pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including 2a counts of rape. the met has apologised to his victims, after it emerged it missed warnings about his behaviour over a long period of time. our home affairs correspondent, june kelly, has more. david carrick...

What has emerged, i think, in this case is that there were indeed a series of what the met call red flags. the police neverjoined up the dots, they would just run through some of them, so before he evenjoined the force through some of them, so before he even joined the force in 2000 won, he was being vetted as a potential officer and he had already been a suspect for offences against a woman on two occasions. that didnt stop him becoming an officer. 0ne on two occasions. that didnt stop him beco...