A transgender volunteer Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a child.
Gwyn Samuels made no expression as the verdicts were read out but sobbed with his head in his hands after the foreman finished speaking.
The 27-year-old was born as a man named James Bubb.
Bubb, of High Street, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, is currently suspended from the force.
Gwyn Samuels appearing in Amersham Law Courts
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Jurors were told Bubb was violent towards the girl when he raped and sexually abused her in her early teens, with the victim telling police he choked and punched her.
The 27-year-old defendant was also found guilty of raping a woman he met online while posing as a 16-year-old girl.
On Thursday, in relation to one complainant, Bubb was found guilty of one count of raping a child under 13, one count of sexual activity with a child, one count of assault of a child under 13 by penetration, and one count of assault by penetration.
He was found not guilty of one count of rape and one count of sexual activity with a child in relation to that complainant, and found guilty of one count of rape against another complainant.
Amersham Law Courts in Buckinghamshire
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All charges took place between January 1, 2018 and April 2, 2024.
The court heard Bubb met his first victim on chat roulette site Omegle in 2018 before meeting in person for the first time at a Christian festival a few months later.
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 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 raped his second victim, 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.
Photo of the defendant when they identified as a male called James Bubb
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The 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 will be sentenced at a date that the court has yet to set.
Amersham Courts were told that Gwyn Samuels, born James Bubb, 27, forced one victim to perform a public sex act | PAJudge Jonathan Cooper told jurors: "This has been a very challenging case, I’m sure, for you as individuals.”
He said he tells every jury not to speak about the case outside the jury room.
Judge Cooper added: "I recognise that’s a very big ask when dealing with counts that would be very, very difficult to hear.
"In this case you heard a range of things that may have been familiar to you, that may have been unfamiliar to you, and may have been unwanted."
The trial took place at Amersham Law Courts in Buckinghamshire
| GOOGLE MAPSAn NSPCC spokesman told GB News: "As a Special Constable, Bubb should have been someone who could be relied on to keep children safe.
"Instead, he posed as a teenage girl online and then used his fake profile to target and groom a young girl before repeatedly sexually abusing her.
"It is now vital that both the victims in this disturbing case receive all the support they need to move forwards with their lives.
"Bubb’s actions also highlight once again how tech companies need to be doing much more to make their platforms safe spaces for children and young people when they go online."