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Reform UK councillor charged with 35 offences including rape
George Madgwick, a Reform UK councillor on Hampshire County Council, has been charged with 35 offences including 12 counts of rape.
George Madgwick, 37, leader of Reform UK on Hampshire County Council, has been charged with 35 offences including 12 counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, two counts of assault by penetration, and making and distributing indecent images of children. The charges also include causing or inciting sexual exploitation of a child, eight counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two counts of controlling or coercive behaviour, stalking, making threats to kill, false imprisonment, theft and criminal damage. The allegations involve four victims aged 16 and 17 at the time, with offences alleged to have taken place between 2008 and 2021 in Portsmouth and Wales. He was arrested in Wandsworth, London on 6 January 2026, following a police investigation launched on 24 July 2025. Reform UK suspended him with immediate effect. Madgwick will appear at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court on 25 November 2026.
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