Romans 1:26-32: Trans Met Police Volunteer Officer , 27, Is Guilty Of Sexually Assaulting 12-Year-Old Girl In Public And Raping A Woman He Met Online While Posing As 16-Year-Old Girl.

By ROBERT FOLKER, NEWS REPORTER

Published: 14:44 BST, 28 August 2025 | Updated: 16:42 BST, 28 August 2025

A trans Metropolitan Police volunteer officer has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a young girl.

James Bubb, 27, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, was also found guilty of raping a woman he met online while posing as a 16-year-old girl.

The volunteer officer groomed one of his two victims online before sexually assaulting her when she was just 12 years old.

A trial at Amersham Law Courts heard the officer sexually assaulted the girl in public shortly before her 13th birthday and was forced to pull his trousers up after a dog walker went past him.

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.

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.

All charges took place between January 1, 2018, and April 2, 2024.

James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, a volunteer Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a child

James Bubb (as seen above, right in this court sketch), who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a child

A trial at Amersham Law Courts (pictured) heard the officer sexually assaulted the girl in public shortly before her 13th birthday and was forced to pull his trousers up after a dog walker went past him

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Bubb who wore a black cardigan, glasses, and cream shirt, made no expression as the verdicts were read out but sobbed with his head in his hands after the foreman finished speaking.

The court heard Bubb met his first victim on the 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.

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.’

The court heard the defendant began training with the Met in 2020.

Judge 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, but 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.’

Jurors, who were told the defendant and the alleged victims would be referred to by their biological sex throughout the trial when discussing the allegations, reached verdicts after deliberating for six hours and 32 minutes.

The victim said Bubb used ‘BDSM and kink as a way of creating control’ over her

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Bubb, of High Street, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, will be sentenced at a date that the court has yet to set

After the verdicts, Detective Sergeant Catriona Cameron, who works in the child abuse investigation unit of Thames Valley Police, said the 27-year-old’s actions were ‘absolutely’ a breach of trust.

She said: ‘The investigation we led hasn’t identified the defendant used his position to identify and meet victims, but there was an element that he used the fact that they are a special constable in order to intimidate and they have used officer safety techniques and restraint on the victims as part of their offending.’

Asked how much of a breach of trust Bubb’s actions were, Ms Cameron said: ‘Absolutely, I mean, anybody as a police officer, in that position of trust, we get taught these things and we should only be using them as appropriate.’

The trial heard that Bubb met one of the victim when she was 12 at a Christian camp where he had been working as a steward.

Of the camp, she said: ‘One of the victims has stated that that’s where they met and it’s understood as part of the investigation that the defendant has used that position, which is a position of trust, which has therefore enabled the victim and their family to kind of have trust in what they’re doing.

Ms Cameron said of Bubb’s offending: ‘They’ve identified a vulnerable child to start off with, groomed them.

‘They then used fear, intimidation, violence and weapons to abuse the child going forward over a number of years, so very dangerous and very predatory in his offending.’

She said that while safeguarding measures on some online platforms had improved and new legislation had enhanced the protection of children, areas of vulnerability ‘absolutely’ remained.

After the verdict, a spokesperson for the NSPCC child protection charity said: ‘As a special constable, Bubb should have been someone who could be relied on to keep children safe.

‘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.’

Bubb, of High Street, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, will be sentenced at a date that the court has yet to set.