Reform UK councillor charged with rape and sexual assault

The leader of Reform UK in Hampshire has been charged with 35 offences against four victims, including 12 counts of rape and making indecent images of a child.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Tuesday that it had charged George Madgwick with the offences, which it says took place between 2008 and 2021 in Portsmouth and Wales.

It said the 37-year-old faced charges including rape, sexual assault, controlling or coercive behaviour, and making indecent images of a child against four victims - who were aged 16 and 17 at the time.

Madgwick is the leader of the Reform UK group on Hampshire County Council, and is due to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court on Wednesday 25 November.

In total, Madgwick, who is from the the Anchorage Park area of Portsmouth, has been charged with 12 counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration and two of sexual assault.

The 37-year-old has also been charged with two counts of making indecent images of children, two of controlling or coercive behaviour and eight of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

He faces one charge each of 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.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said its investigation into Madgwick began on 24 July 2025, after receiving a report of a sexual offence.

The force said it first arrested Madgwick on 6 January 2026, before he was charged by the CPS on Tuesday.