
- A volunteer Metropolitan Police officer, James Bubb, now identifying as Gwyn Samuels, has been jailed for 24 years for raping and sexually assaulting a child and a woman.
- Samuels was found guilty of grooming a 12-year-old girl online before sexually assaulting her, and raping a woman met online while posing as a 16-year-old girl.
- The former special constable received a total sentence of 32 years, consisting of 24 years' imprisonment and an additional eight years on extended licence.
- Judge Jonathan Cooper stated that Samuels 'abused the most intimate trust of your victims' and posed a 'very significant risk to women', a judgment based on criminal status, not trans status.
- Samuels was also made subject to a lifelong sexual harm prevention order, banning contact with young women, following offences committed between January 2018 and April 2024.




