A former UK native politician has been charged with repeatedly drugging and raping his then-wife over 13 years — with 5 different males additionally accused of raping or assaulting her.
Philip Younger, 49, appeared in court docket in Swindon on Tuesday, charged with 56 offenses — together with 11 counts of rape and the identical variety of drugging to permit intercourse — in opposition to now-ex-wife Joanne Younger, 48, in a horrific ordeal between 2010 and 2023.
The previous native councilor was additionally charged with “voyeurism on no less than 200 different events” — and with possessing lots of of porn pictures, together with of children, animals, rape and dying.
5 different males had been additionally charged with abusing Joanne Younger, who waived her proper to anonymity to publicize the case, cops stated.
A 46-year-old homeless man, Dean Hamilton, was charged with rape, sexual assault by penetration and two counts of sexual touching.
Two others — Norman Macksoni, 47, and Richard Wilkins, 61 — had been charged with rape and different offences, whereas Connor Sanderson Doyle, 31, was charged with sexual assault by penetration and sexual touching. Mohammed Hassan, 37, was charged with sexual touching.
Investigators are nonetheless attempting to determine one other man tied to the alleged abuse, a police spokesperson instructed the BBC.
All six appeared at Swindon Magistrates’ Courtroom on Tuesday the place the accused-rapist husband spoke solely to substantiate his title and deal with, the BBC reported. He didn’t enter a plea and was remanded in custody.
The 5 others had been launched on bail on the situation that they don’t contact the accuser.
Younger served as a Conservative councillor between 2007 and 2010, the yr the allegations begin.
His ex-wife is being supported by specifically educated officers. “We’d ask that her privateness is revered at the moment,” Wiltshire Police stated within the assertion.
