Maid tied up for 36 hours was told to have sex with employer
A COUPLE tied up and imprisoned their maid for three days after the wife launched a plot to pay the woman to sleep with her husband and so give her grounds for divorce.
Zekri Gris, 56, hired the young woman as a cleaner and child-minder for his four children in February 2015. But his wife Dina, 35, then offered her £200 to have sex with him and record it.
After that plot backfired. Mr Gris, who owns shops including newsagents and post offices, accused the maid of stealing £12,000 in cash from him, Bristol Crown Court heard.
He and his wife then used rope and handcuffs to tie the woman to a chair in their £650,000 home in Bishop Sutton, Somerset. The maid – who is from the Philippines and had overstayed her visa duration and become an illegal immigrant – was threatened with a knife to make her “confess” to the theft – with the couple even filming her 36-hour ordeal, which began on June 24 last year.
After three days, the woman, known only as “Narissa”, wriggled free of her binds and used the rope to climb out of a first-floor window. She was then spotted by a neighbour running down the street, wearing just a nightie and the handcuffs, and police were called.
Mr Gris admitted one count of false imprisonment and was jailed for three years on Tuesday. His wife pleaded guilty to the same charge in December and will be sentenced at a later date.
Judge William Hart said: “You were not prepared to accept her denials. She was physically intimidated and treated in a degrading fashion. ”
Ian Penny, prosecuting, said: “On the video we saw an extraordinary scene in which a man was interrogating a person in a manner which has more resemblance to a World War Two film than in society today.”