28 August 2025 , 16:08
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A volunteer Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a child.
James Bubb, who was born male but now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, groomed one of two victims online before sexually assaulting her when she was just 12 years old.
The defendant, who wore a black cardigan, glasses, and a cream shirt, made no expression as the verdicts were read out but sobbed after the foreman finished speaking.
Judge Jonathan Cooper told jurors: “This has been a very challenging case, I’m sure, for you as individuals.”
The court heard the defendant met the first victim online in 2018 before meeting in person for the first time at a Christian festival a few months later.
The victim also said the defendant spoke “a lot about the powers he had” in their role with the Met as a special constable.
The court also heard the officer raped the second victim while the pair were in an on-off relationship with her between January 2018 and February 2023.
She said the defendant would “use police training techniques” on her, telling officers: “The control, the power he got. It sure as hell wasn’t consensual.”
The defendant, of High Street, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, will be sentenced at a date that the court has yet to set.
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