Reform UK councillor charged with 12 counts of rape and little one intercourse abuse crimes
George Madgwick, a Reform UK councillor on Hampshire County Council, has been charged with 12 counts of rape alongside 23 other offences including actual bodily harm and possession of child abuse images
George Madgwick is a Reform UK councillor on Hampshire County Council(Image: Jonathan Buckmasterr)
A Reform UK councillor has been charged with 35 offences, including 12 counts of rape, sexual assault and child sex abuse crimes among others.
George Madgwick, the leader of the Reform UK group on Hampshire County Council, has today been charged with the series of offences following an investigation into allegations relating to four complainants between 2008-2021.
Madgwick, of Portsmouth, will appear at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on November 25. He has been charged with:
- 12 counts of rape
- Eight counts of actual bodily harm
- Two counts of assault by penetration
- Two counts of sexual assault
- Two counts of controlling and coercive behaviour
- Two counts of making an indecent image of a child
- One count of distribution of an indecent image of a child
- One count of stalking
- One count of threats to kill
- One count of false imprisonment
- One count of criminal damage
- One count of theft
- One count of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child
George Madgwick is the leader of the Reform UK group on Hampshire County Council
A spokesperson from the Crown Prosecution Service said: “The Crown Prosecution Service has decided to prosecute George Madgwick for serious sexual offences, including multiple counts of rape.
“He has also been charged with making a threat to kill, false imprisonment and stalking. Our prosecutors have worked to establish that there is sufficient evidence and that it is in the public interest to bring the case to court.
“We remind all concerned that proceedings against the defendant are now active and that he has the right to a fair trial. There should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information which could in anyway prejudice these proceedings.”
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