Jury retires in trial of Met volunteer officer accused of raping two teenagers
The jury at Amersham Law Courts was sent out on Wednesday afternoon.
Last updated 27th Aug 2025
The jury in the trial of a Metropolitan Police volunteer accused of raping two teenagers has retired to consider its verdicts.
Amersham Law Courts heard that James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, assaulted the first alleged victim multiple times while she was between the ages of 12 and 18.
The two met on video chat site Omegle in 2018, when the complainant was 12 years old and the defendant was about 21, before meeting in person for the first time at a Christian festival a few months later, the trial heard.
She told police she had said to the defendant that she was five years older than she actually was when they first met, but insisted that a number of incidents while they were together would have meant he knew she was under the age of consent.
The girl said the defendant looked "paranoid" when he was with her, and she was being "hidden" when they were in public together - telling police her festival colour-coded child wristband was clearly on show.
Bubb's first alleged victim also said the defendant spoke "a lot about the powers he had" in his role with the Met as a special constable.
The court also heard the officer allegedly raped a second complainant, a woman he met when she had just turned 18, while he was in an on-off relationship with her between January 2018 and February 2023.
The alleged victim said Bubb used "BDSM and kink as a way of creating control" over her.
She said the defendant would "use police training techniques" on her, telling police: "The control, the power he got, it sure as hell wasn't consensual."
Bubb, who is now 27, started training with the Met in 2020.
The defendant changed his name to Gwyn Samuels in December 2024.
Jurors were told the defendant, who still identified as male at the time of the alleged offences, would be referred to by their biological sex throughout the trial when discussing the allegations.
Bubb is charged with two counts of rape, two counts of sexual activity with a child, one count of assault of a child under 13 by penetration, one count of rape of a child under 13, and one count of assault by penetration in relation to the first complainant, and one count of rape in relation to second complainant.
A not guilty verdict on one of the rape charges in relation to the first complainant was returned after the prosecution offered no evidence.
The defendant, of High Street, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, denies all the charges, which are alleged to have taken place between January 1 2018 and April 2 2024.
The jury at Amersham Law Courts was sent out on Wednesday afternoon.