Trans Met volunteer officer groomed child and told her 'she enjoyed being raped', court hears

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A transgender Scotland Yard volunteer officer raped two young girls after grooming them online, a court heard.
Gwyn Samuels, who was born a man named James Bubb, told one victim she 'enjoyed being raped' and forced her to perform a sex act in public which was interrupted by a dog walker, prosecutors said.
The 27-year-old groomed both victims, one of whom was just 12, on internet 'chat roulette' site Omegle while posing as a 16-year-old, jurors heard.
They arranged to meet the first girl at a Christian festival where she was camping with her parents, before sexually assaulting her shortly before her 13th birthday, Amersham Courts heard.
Samuels began a 'BDSM' relationship with their second alleged victim when she was 18 and is said to have refused her calls to stop while they were 're-enacting' a rape scenario.
Samuels, who now identifies as a trans woman, denies seven counts relating to the first alleged victim - including rape of a child under 13 - and with one count of rape relating to the second victim.
Richard Milne, prosecuting, said Samuels' first victim believed she was in a relationship with them and they first met in person at Soul Survivor festival in 2018 when Samuels was working as a steward.
Samuels had never asked her for proof of age, and she had a child's bracelet pass for the event – a different colour to those for adults, the court heard.
Gwyn Samuels, who was born a man named James Bubb, told one victim she 'enjoyed being raped' and forced her to perform a sex act in public which was interrupted by a dog walker, prosecutors said
The 27-year-old groomed both victims, one of whom was just 12, on internet 'chat roulette' site Omegle while posing as a 16-year-old, jurors heard
'[Samuels] confirmed to [the girl] that they were in a relationship, but that it had to be hidden when they were in public,' Mr Milne said.
The following year, when the girl was staying in London with her parents, the pair met again in a park and Samuels told her to remove her tights before groping her through her underwear, the court heard.
She asked Samuels to stop, but then they forced her to perform oral sex before pulling up their trousers 'in a panic' after spotting a dogwalker, the court heard.
They met again in 2020, when the girl was 13 or 14, and Samuels took her to their flat in northwest London and allegedly raped her.
Samuels would 'choke, punch and hit' the girl during this activity, the court heard, and told her she 'enjoyed being raped.'
This sexual activity carried on for three years, before the girl overdosed and was in hospital for two and a half weeks, the court heard.
Samuels' trial is expected to last six days and is taking place at Amersham Law Courts
She reported Samuels on the Metropolitan Police website and officers who arrested them last year also interviewed another female who had been in a relationship with them for about five years.
'She describes the relationship as not healthy,' Mr Milne said of the second female.
'She told police some of the sexual encounters were not entirely consensual.'
She said Samuels would engage in 'knife play' in the bedroom, enacted rape scenarios and Samuels would use 'officer training techniques' to restrain her without permission.
'[The complainant] stated that she would say no or stop to [Samuels] when she no longer consented and [she] would carry on,' Mr Milne said.
'[The complainant] cannot recall how many times this happened.'
Samuels, from Buckinghamshire who appeared in the dock dressed in a white shirt and black cardigan with glasses and long red hair, denies the charges.
The trial, which is expected to last six days, continues.