Reform councillor George Madgwick has been charged with 35 offences following a police investigation into allegations involving four complainants between 2008 and 2021.
The charges include:
• 12 counts of rape
• Eight counts of actual bodily harm
• Two counts of assault by penetration
• Two counts of sexual assault
• Two counts of controlling and coercive behaviour
• Two counts of making an indecent image of a child
• One count of distributing an indecent image of a child
• One count of stalking
• One count of threats to kill
• One count of false imprisonment
• One count of criminal damage
• One count of theft
• One count of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child
He's is due to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court on 25 November.