George Madgwick, a Reform UK councillor on Hampshire County Council, has been charged with 35 offences, including 12 counts of rape, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
Investigation and arrest
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary launched an investigation on July 24, 2025, after receiving a report of a sexual offence. On January 6, officers arrested Madgwick at an address in Wandsworth, London.
Full list of charges
George David Madgwick, 37, from the Anchorage Park area of Portsmouth, has been charged with:
- Twelve offences of rape.
- Two offences of assault by penetration.
- Two offences of sexual assault.
- One offence of causing or inciting sexual exploitation of a child.
- Two offences of making indecent images of children.
- One offence of distributing an indecent image of a child.
- Eight offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
- Two offences of controlling or coercive behaviour.
- One offence of stalking.
- One offence of making threats to kill.
- One offence of false imprisonment.
- One offence of theft.
- One offence of criminal damage.
Next steps
He has been bailed to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates on November 25.
