A volunteer with London's Metropolitan Police who identifies as transgender was found guilty in court of raping and sexually assaulting a young girl as well as one count of rape against another woman. The man, who goes by Gwyn Samuels, cried in court after the foreman delivered the verdict.
Samuels, 27, was born James Bubb before changing his name and deciding to pretend he was a woman. He was accused of raping and punching the girl under age 13. All of the charges for which he was convicted occurred between 2018 and 2024.
He was 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," GB News reports.
The girl told the court that they met on Omegle, a chat roulette site, and then in person at a Christian festival where she wore a child admittance wristband and he seemed "paranoid." He tried to impress her by talking about working with the Met Police, she said.
The girl, who was under 13 years old at the time, told police that he choked her and punched her. She was not the only one to accuse Bubb of rape and violence.
"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 another complainant," they report. That victim was a woman he met when she was just 18. They were romantically involved from 2018 to 2023.
She said he controlled her with "kink" and "BDSM." He has been suspended from the Metropolitan Police force. His sentencing is to follow.
"As a Special Constable, Bubb should have been someone who could be relied on to keep children safe," said a National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children spokesperson.
"Instead, he posed as a teenage girl online and then used his fake profile to target and groom a young girl before repeatedly sexually abusing her," they continued.
"It is now vital that both the victims in this disturbing case receive all the support they need to move forwards with their lives. Bubb’s actions also highlight once again how tech companies need to be doing much more to make their platforms safe spaces for children and young people when they go online."
