{"id":466547,"date":"2025-12-23T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466547\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:09:13","slug":"philip-young-in-court-charged-with-drugging-and-raping-ex-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466547\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Young in court charged with drugging and raping ex-wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A former councillor has appeared in court accused of a string of sexual offences against his ex-wife over a 13-year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Philip Young, 49, is charged with 56 offences, including multiple counts of rape and administering a substance with intent to stupefy his former spouse Joanne Young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Young, formerly of Swindon but now of Amberley Road, Enfield, confirmed his name and address at Swindon Magistrates&#8217; Court. He did not enter a plea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Five other men are also charged with offences against Ms Young, 48, who has waived her legal right to anonymity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Young has also been charged with voyeurism, possession of indecent images of children and possession of extreme images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Young, dressed in a pair of dark blue jeans and a black zip-up jumper, was remanded into custody earlier and is next due to appear at Swindon Crown Court for a hearing on 23 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He previously served as a Conservative Swindon borough councillor for Covingham and Nythe between 2007 and 2010. The alleged offences are said to have taken place between 2010 and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former councillor has appeared in court accused of a string of sexual offences against his ex-wife over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":466548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-466547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115768810891090024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}