A Metropolitan Police volunteer officer groomed a child after meeting her online, a court has heard. The defendant, born James Bubb but now identifying as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, faces multiple charges including rape and sexual activity with a child.
Prosecutor Richard Milne told Amersham Law Courts that the first alleged victim was 12 years old when she met the defendant online. Their communications became sexual within a month, and the victim said in a statement she did not realise she was being groomed. The defendant later met her in person at a festival while working as a steward, telling her they were in a relationship despite her wearing a child's bracelet pass.
Mr Milne said the defendant raped the complainant between the ages of 13 and 15, and again when she was about 18. The second complainant met the defendant online when she was 18 and said they were 're-enacting a rape'. She claimed the defendant used 'officer training techniques' on her without consent and continued sexual activity after she said no.
The defendant was arrested on April 30 2024. Officers described their flat as 'extremely messy and dirty'. In a prepared statement, the defendant said he had 'never had any non-consensual sex' with the first complainant, then made no comment during interview.
The prosecution said the likely defences will be that no sexual activity took place with the first complainant when she was underage, and that sex with her after 16 was consensual. The defendant, of High Street, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, denies all charges, which are alleged to have taken place between January 1 2018 and April 2 2024.
