A serving Metropolitan Police officer who falsely imprisoned and beat a girl has been jailed.
PC Isaque Rodrigues-Leite, hooked up to the Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC), additionally used coercion, management, and common threats and intimidation towards the lady, whom he knew, with the offending culminating in 2019.
A choose on Thursday dominated PC Rodrigues-Leite did decide up a knife and threaten to kill the sufferer and himself amongst his offences, as he sentenced him to 2 years and three months imprisonment at Croydon Crown Court docket.
In one other incident, the listening to heard how the Met Police officer accelerated his automotive in direction of the lady, forcing her to leap on its bonnet. He drove backwards and forwards for a couple of minutes, ultimately inflicting the lady to fall off, leaving her mendacity within the street, the court docket was informed. The choose caveated that the suspected low speeds would have meant her accidents had been “not vital” – however he described it as “nonetheless a critical incident”.
Passing sentence, Mr Recorder Daniel Dyal stated: “I’m happy that you just had been aggressive and extremely unstable… your mood was so dangerous right now that you just made her concern violence can be used.”
In an affect assertion learn to the court docket, the sufferer stated: “It bought to the purpose the place I used to be terrified to go away my home… It’s brought about me to additionally really feel terrified of cops.”
The listening to was additionally informed of a number of events when PC Rodrigues-Leite would lock the lady in rooms and forestall her from leaving for a couple of minutes.
Following a earlier 10-day trial, PC Rodrigues-Leite was discovered responsible on 10 November of 4 counts of false imprisonment, two counts of assault by beating, one depend of coercive and controlling behaviour and one depend of felony harm.
The lady had contacted police in September 2020, after which PC Rodrigues-Leite, who joined the Met in 2019, was arrested.
He has been suspended from the power and can now additionally face misconduct proceedings.