{"id":6210,"date":"2025-12-23T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6210"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:42:17","slug":"philip-young-in-court-charged-with-drugging-and-raping-ex-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6210","title":{"rendered":"Philip Young in court charged with drugging and raping ex-wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<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 living in 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<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The following men are due to appear at Swindon Magistrates&#8217; Court later, accused of offences against Ms Young: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"sc-6f869981-0 diUlgm\">\n<li class=\"sc-734a601e-0 cRgahm\">Norman Macksoni, 47, of Wood End Close, Sharnbrook. He is charged with one count of rape and possession of extreme images<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-734a601e-0 cRgahm\">Dean Hamilton, 47, of no fixed abode. He is charged with one count of rape and sexual assault by penetration and two counts of sexual touching<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-734a601e-0 cRgahm\">Conner Sanderson Doyle, 31, of Crofton Road, Swindon. He is charged with sexual assault by penetration and sexual touching<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-734a601e-0 cRgahm\">Richard Wilkins, 61, of Tattershall, Toothill, Swindon. He is charged with one count of rape and sexual touching<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-734a601e-0 cRgahm\">Mohammed Hassan, 37, of Torun Way, Swindon. He is charged with sexual touching<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Philip #Young #court #charged #drugging #raping #exwife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former councillor has appear&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6211,"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\/6210"}],"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=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}