George Madgwick, the leader of the Reform UK group on Hampshire County Council, has been charged with 35 offences spanning multiple years and involving four alleged victims. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed on Tuesday that the charges include 12 counts of rape, sexual assault, controlling or coercive behaviour, and making indecent images of a child.
The alleged offences took place between 2008 and 2021 in Portsmouth and Wales. The CPS stated that the victims were aged 16 and 17 at the time of the alleged assaults.
Madgwick, 37, also faces charges of assault by penetration, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, causing or inciting sexual exploitation of a child, distributing an indecent image of a child, stalking, making threats to kill, false imprisonment, theft, and criminal damage. He is scheduled to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, November 25.