groomed one of his two victims online before sexually assaulting her<\/a> when she was just 12 years old.<\/p>\nThe 27-year-old, from Chesham in Buckinghamshire, was also found guilty of raping a woman he met online while posing as a 16-year-old girl.<\/p>\n
Amersham Law Courts was told the defendant, who still identified as male at the time of the alleged offences, would be referred to by biological sex throughout the trial.<\/p>\n
Bubb began to volunteer with the Met Police Central West team as a special constable on 19 September 2020.<\/p>\n
He was suspended from volunteer duties immediately after his arrest by Thames Valley Police on 30 April 2024.<\/p>\n
The offences took place between 1 January 2018 and 2 April 2024.<\/p>\n
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The trial took place at Amersham Law Courts<\/p>\n
The crown court trial was told that Bubb met his first victim on the online chat site Omegle in 2018 – before meeting in person for the first time at a Christian festival a few months later.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Bubb was a volunteer steward and the victim was wearing a colour-coded child’s wristband that was clearly on show.<\/p>\n
The officer sexually assaulted the girl in public shortly before her 13th birthday and was forced to pull his trousers up after a dog walker went past.<\/p>\n
His victim also said Bubb spoke “a lot about the powers he had” in his role with the Met as a special constable.<\/p>\n
Bubb was found guilty of one count of raping a child under 13, one count of sexual activity with a child, one count of assault of a child under 13 by penetration, and one count of assault by penetration – all relating to the same complainant.<\/p>\n
He was found not guilty of one count of rape and one count of sexual activity with a child in relation to the same complainant.<\/p>\n
Bubb was also found guilty of one count of rape against a second complainant.<\/p>\n
The court heard the officer raped the woman, who he met when she had just turned 18, while he was in an on-off relationship with her between January 2018 and February 2023.<\/p>\n
She said the defendant would “use police training techniques” on her, telling police: “The control, the power he got. It sure as hell wasn’t consensual.”<\/p>\n
‘Safe spaces’<\/p>\n
Judge Jonathan Cooper told jurors after the trial the case must have been “very challenging, I’m sure, for you as individuals”.<\/p>\n
Jurors reached verdicts after deliberating for six hours and 32 minutes.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the NSPCC child protection charity said Bubb should have been relied on to “keep children safe”.<\/p>\n
“It is now vital that both the victims in this disturbing case receive all the support they need to move forwards with their lives,” they said.<\/p>\n
“Bubb’s actions also highlight once again how tech companies need to be doing much more to make their platforms safe spaces for children and young people when they go online.”<\/p>\n
After the verdicts, Det Sgt Catriona Cameron, of the Thames Valley Police child abuse investigation unit, said Bubb’s actions were “absolutely” a breach of trust.<\/p>\n
“There was an element that he used the fact that they are a special constable in order to intimidate and they have used officer safety techniques and restraint on the victims as part of their offending,” said Det Sgt Cameron.<\/p>\n
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