Met Police officer tied woman up and warned her ‘who are you going to tell, I’m the police’

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. I’m the police.” Judge Lodder KC said Grigg “knew the likely effect” of the statement, over a year after the murder of Sarah Everard and months after the arrest of Met Police rapist David Carrick. “I take account of the pleasure that you appeared to derive and your professional role as police officer, which you utilised in an attempt to prevent her from reporting what happened.” The judge sentenced Grigg to four years in prison for false imprisonment and actual bodily harm, with a two-year extended licence when he is released, and imposed a restraining order banning future contact with his victim. The court heard that there was a delay in it reaching Metropolitan Police detectives because the “system understood that she was trying to make a complaint against a police officer rather than reporting a crime”. Sam Grigg was sacked from the Met after admitting the offences, which come amid a waveof prosecutions against police officers Grigg has no previous convictions, but after seeing news of his prosecution a former partner came forward to tell police that Grigg had “an obsession” with BDSM and had used police handcuffs during sexual acts.