A Metropolitan Police officer has pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and assault occasioning actual bodily harm charges.

Pc Sam Grigg, 36, used duct tape to restrain Natasha Rabinowitz in a house in Twickenham, south-west London, on December 2 last year.

It is said Grigg and Ms Rabinowitz were known to each other.

Grigg, who was attached to the South West Basic Command Unit, was suspended from duty after being charged.

Appearing via video-link at Kingston Crown Court from HMP Wandsworth in a grey sweatshirt, he pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

John Howey, defending, said: “Mr Grigg accepts that he tied up the complainant. He takes no issue with anything she says.”

The Met said Ms Rabinowitz, aged in her 20s, suffered minor injuries but did not require hospital treatment.

Grigg, of Hazel Close, Twickenham, south-west London, was off duty at the time of the offence.

Judge Georgina Kent ordered a pre-sentence report and adjourned the sentencing hearing to February 10 at the same court.

She said: “This is a serious offence.

“The ordering of the report is not an indication of the outcome.”

The incident was reported on December 6 last year and Grigg was charged two days later, appearing in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on December 8.

Commander Jon Savell, who is in charge of the Met’s professional standards team, previously said: “I recognise this news will cause concern and I would like to reassure the public that we took immediate steps as soon as the report was received by police.”

According to an earlier statement from the force, the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards was informed and a referral would be made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.