A serving Metropolitan Police officer who falsely imprisoned and beat a woman has been jailed.
PC Isaque Rodrigues-Leite, attached to the Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC), also used coercion, control, and regular threats and intimidation against the woman, whom he knew, with the offending culminating in 2019.
A judge on Thursday ruled PC Rodrigues-Leite, who joined the force in 2019, did pick up a knife and threaten to kill the victim and himself, as Mr Recorder Daniel Dyal sentenced him to two years and three months imprisonment at Croydon Crown Court.
Following a 10-day trial, PC Rodrigues-Leite was found guilty on 10 November of four counts of false imprisonment, two counts of assault by beating, one count of coercive and controlling behaviour and one count of criminal damage.
In an impact statement read to the court, the victim said: “It got to the point where I was terrified to leave my house… It’s caused me to also feel scared of police officers.”
The woman had contacted police in September 2020, after which PC Rodrigues-Leite was arrested.
He has been suspended from the Met and will now also face misconduct proceedings.
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