{"id":15056,"date":"2026-01-23T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15056"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:28:26","slug":"philip-young-pleads-guilty-to-drugging-and-raping-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15056","title":{"rendered":"Philip Young pleads guilty to drugging and raping wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A former Conservative councillor has pleaded guilty to committing a string of sexual offences, including multiple counts of rape, against his then-wife over a 13-year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Philip Young admitted a number of charges against him, which also include administering a substance with intent to stupefy and voyeurism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The 49-year-old, formerly of a Swindon but now of Amberley Road in Enfield, denied eight counts related to making and possessing indecent images of children and possessing extreme images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Four other men charged with sexual offences against Joanne Young also appeared at Winchester Crown Court earlier and pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A fifth man who has been charged with rape, assault by penetration and sexual assault, will appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Young, who is now divorced, served as a Conservative Swindon Borough councillor for Covingham and Nythe between 2007 and 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Philip #Young #pleads #guilty #drugging #raping #wife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Conservative councill&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}