Pc sacked after tying up housemate with duct tape

A POLICE officer who bound and gagged his female housemate with duct tape has been sacked by Scotland Yard.

Pc Sam Grigg, 36, told Natasha Rabinowitz, “Who are you going to tell? I’m the police”, as he tied her up in the kitchen of their shared home in Twickenham, south-west London.

Westminster magistrates’ court heard that the off-duty officer had grabbed her wrists behind her back and taped them together before repeating the same actions with her ankles and gagging her during the incident last December.

When Ms Rabinowitz, who is in her 20s, asked him why he was doing it, he replied: “Because it’s funny.”

The court heard how when she asked Grigg to be careful while cutting off the tape with a knife, he said: “Who are you going to tell? I’m the police.”

Grigg, who was attached to the South West basic command unit of the Metropolitan Police, had already pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and assault occasioning actual bodily harm when he appeared via video-link at Kingston Crown Court earlier this month.

An accelerated misconduct hearing yesterday found Grigg breached the standards of professional behaviour and he has been dismissed without notice.

During the hearing John Howey, defending, said: “Mr Grigg accepts that

‘Pc Grigg’s behaviour was totally unacceptable and I know it will cause concern among the public’

he tied up the complainant. He takes no issue with anything she says.”

The Met said Ms Rabinowitz suffered minor injuries after the incident but did not require hospital treatment.

After the misconduct hearing, Commander Jon Savell, in charge of the Met’s professional standards department, said: “Grigg’s behaviour was unacceptable and I know it will cause concern among members of the public.”

Grigg will be added to the barred list held by the College of Policing.