Overview

• Prosecutors offered no evidence on one rape charge relating to the second complainant, resulting in a not-guilty verdict on that count
• Gwyn Samuels, formerly James Bubb, denies all remaining charges, which include rape, sexual activity with a child and assault by penetration spanning 2018 to 2024
• Court was told Samuels met the first complainant on Omegle in 2018 and arranged in-person meetings, including at a Christian festival, as communications turned sexual
• Victim statements describe Samuels using Metropolitan Police training techniques during alleged assaults and instructing a complainant to perform a sex act in public at age 12
• The jury will weigh evidence presented so far—victim interviews, recorded statements and Samuels’s prepared police interview—as the trial at Amersham Crown Court continues