Former Met Police volunteer guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a child

A former Metropolitan Police volunteer has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a child.

James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, assaulted the victim multiple times when she was between the ages of 12 and 18. Jurors were told Bubb, who identified as male at the time of the offences, would be referred to by their biological sex when allegations were being discussed throughout the trial.

Bubb met the victim on a video chat site in 2018, when he was around 21 and she was 12 years old. They then met in person for the first time at a Christian festival a few months later, the court was told.

The trial heard Bubb sexually assaulted the girl in public shortly before her 13th birthday, and that he was violent towards the girl when he raped her in her early teens. In relation to the complainant, Bubb was on Thursday found guilty of one count of raping a child under 13, one count of sexual activity with a child, one count of assault of a child under 13 by penetration, and one count of assault by penetration.

He was found not guilty of one count of rape and one count of sexual activity with a child in relation to that complainant, and found guilty of one count of rape against a second person. The defendant made no expression as the verdicts were read out, but sobbed with their head in their hands after the foreman finished speaking.

Bubb, who is now 27, started training with the Met in 2020. The first victim said the defendant spoke "a lot about the powers he had" in his role as a special constable.

Read more:Man arrested after racist abuse sent to England starBritish Tour de France winner in 'serious' crash The second complainant was a woman Bubb met online while posing as a 16-year-old girl. They met when the woman had just turned 18, and were in an on-off relationship between January 2018 and February 2023.

She said Bubb used "BDSM and kink as a way of creating control" over her, and that he would "use police training techniques" on her. "The control, the power he got, it sure as hell wasn't consensual," she told police.

Bubb, of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, will be sentenced at a later date..