Saturday, January 24, 2026 - A former Tory councillor has admitted to drugging and r@ping his ex-wife in a harrowing campaign of abuse that stretched over 13 years.
Father‑of‑three Philip Young pleaded guilty to 48 s£x
offences at a hearing at Winchester Crown Court today, Jan. 22.
The 49‑year‑old admitted to repeatedly r@ping his former
wife Joanne Young, 48, over a 13-year period.
Young pleaded guilty to drugging his unsuspecting wife
before carrying out the string of assaults, sometimes acting alone and in
several cases alongside other men.
Ms Young, who can be named after she bravely waived her
right to anonymity, was present to witness the pleas entered in Court Two this
afternoon, supported by her sister and a member of Witness Support.
Young, who was dressed in a prison issued grey tracksuit,
lowered his eyes as his former wife of more than 20 years entered the
court.
The disgraced business consultant admitted to 11 counts of
r@pe, seven charges of s£xual assault and four counts of s£xual touching, all
involving his ex-wife.
Young also admitted to r@ping his wife with an unidentified
man – who the police are still trying to trace – between April and May
2022.
Young also admitted to multiple counts of voyeurism
including secretly recording his unsuspecting wife during "private
acts" more than 200 times for his s£xual gratification between January
2010 and July 2024.
He also pleaded guilty to publishing "obscene"
material – including non-consensual intimate photographs and videos of Ms Young
– more than 500 times.
However, Young denied multiple counts of possession of
indecent images of children – including 139 of the most serious category A, and
82 "extreme" images.
Young was remanded in custody to be sentenced at a later
date.
He had served as a respected Conservative councillor in the
leafy Wiltshire town for several years, rising to be a cabinet member.
But in 2010 - the year when the abuse is believed to have
begun - Young announced he was stepping down in order to spend more time with
his family
He appeared alongside five other men accused of carrying out
a slew of s£xual offences against Ms Young which took place between 2010 and
2023.
The group appeared again at Winchester Crown Court
before Judge Angela Morris today.
Norman Macksoni, 47, of Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, entered a
not guilty plea to one count of r@pe and one count of possession of extreme
images.
Connor Sanderson-Doyle, 31, from Swindon also denied s£xual
assault by penetration and s£xual touching.
While Richard Wilkins, 61, from Swindon, denied r@pe and
s£xual touching while Mohammed Hassan, 37, also from Swindon, pleaded not
guilty to a single charge of s£xual touching.
Dean Hamilton, 47, of Butleigh, Somerset, who faces one
count of r@pe and s£xual assault by penetration and two counts of s£xual
touching, is yet to enter a plea.
The six men stood in line in the dock for the 27 minutes it
took for the charges to be read by the clerk.
During a previous hearing at Swindon Magistrates' Court,
Macksoni, Hamilton, Wilkins, Doyle and Hassan were released on conditional bail
while Young was remanded into custody.
Speaking after the court hearing James Foster, Specialist
Prosecutor of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Philip Young has
pleaded guilty to 48 serious s£xual offences committed against his former wife,
Joanne Young.
"We worked closely with Wiltshire Police to build a
thorough and compelling case that resulted in him pleading guilty to dozens of
offences today."
Young was formerly a council cabinet member for culture, regeneration and
economic development, but in 2010 he said he was stepping down to spend more
time with family.
Six months earlier, he described how he helped deliver the
couple's third child at home minutes before paramedics could arrive. The couple
have since split up.
Young has been involved in multiple consultancy businesses,
including as a director, and describes himself online as an "experienced
business leader".
He is listed as the chief operating officer for a salesforce
consultancy firm based in London. He joined the business in June 2023 with
"17 years" experience in the ecosystem running his own partner
consultancy, according to his biography on the company website.
He previously worked on projects for household names
including Aston Martin, Unilever, and BP
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