A former police special constable has been sentenced to 24 years in prison after being found guilty of multiple sex offenses, including the rape of a child.
James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, committed the assaults on the victim between the ages of 12 and 18.
At Aylesbury Crown Court today, Samuels received a total sentence of 32 years, which includes 24 years of imprisonment and an additional eight years on extended license. The court heard that Samuels sexually assaulted the child in public shortly before her 13th birthday.
A jury convicted Samuels of several charges, 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. However, the jury found Samuels not guilty of one count of rape and one count of sexual activity with a child concerning the same complainant. However, Samuels was found guilty of one count of rape against a second victim.
The first victim met Samuels online in 2018 when she was just 12 years old and Samuels was around 21. They met in person for the first time at a Christian festival a few months later. The second complainant was a woman who connected with Samuels online while he was posing as a 16-year-old girl. Their relationship spanned from January 2018 to February 2023, during which they had an on-and-off relationship.
Samuels began training with the Metropolitan Police in 2020. The first victim reported that Samuels often discussed “the powers he had” in his role as a special constable. The second complainant revealed that Samuels used “BDSM and kink as a way of creating control” over her, employing police training techniques to exert power in their relationship.
”The control, the power he got, it sure as hell wasn’t consensual,” she stated in her testimony to police.
By: Madeline Moore