George Madgwick, a councillor on Hampshire County Council, has been suspended from Reform UK with “immediate effect”, a party spokesperson said.
He has been bailed and is due to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on 25 November.
The charges against Madgwick, 37, relate to four victims, aged between 16 and 17 at the time of the alleged offences, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said.
They are said to have taken place between 2008 and 2021, both in Portsmouth and Wales.
Madgwick, from the Anchorage Park area of Portsmouth, has been charged with offences, which include:
- Twelve offences of rape
- Two offences of assault by penetration
- Two offences of sexual assault
- One offence of causing or inciting sexual exploitation of a child
- Two offences of making indecent images of children
- One offence of distributing an indecent image of a child
- Eight offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm
- Two offences of controlling or coercive behaviour
- One offence of stalking
- One offence of making threats to kill
- One offence of false imprisonment
- One offence of theft
- One offence of criminal damage
Police launched an investigation in July 2025 after officers received a report of sexual offence. On 6 January 2026, a man was arrested at an address in Wandsworth, London.
Madwick represents the North East Havant ward in Havant, Hampshire, and was elected in May 2026.
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