A Reform UK councillor has been charged with 35 offences against four victims, including rape, sexual assault, controlling or coercive behaviour, and making indecent images of a child.
George Madgwick, from Anchorage Park in Portsmouth, is a Reform UK councillor for North East Havant on Hampshire County Council. He is due to appear in court later this month.
Investigation and Arrest
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary said it launched an investigation on Thursday, July 24, 2025, after receiving a report of a sexual offence.
On January 6, 2026, officers arrested a man at an address in Wandsworth, London. The allegations relate to four victims who were aged between 16 and 17 at the time of the alleged offences, which are said to have taken place between 2008 and 2021 in Portsmouth and Wales.
Full List of Charges
The offences are:
- 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.
Madgwick has been bailed to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, November 25.
