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Pitcairn Islands magistrate and child rapist (born 1954)

Brian Michael John Young (born 10 September 1954) served as Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of the Pitcairn Islands from December 1984 until 1 January 1991. In 2007, Young was found guilty of rape and indecent assault, and was sentenced to six years and six months in prison.

Young served as a Magistrate on the Pitcairn Islands and was made Council Representative to the School Maintenance Committee in 1994. He later moved to New Zealand.^[1]

During a special sitting of the Pitcairn Supreme Court in New Zealand, Young was found guilty of child sex offences during his time on the Pitcairn Islands in January 2007.^[1] Two years earlier, the 2004 Pitcairn Islands sexual assault trial had resulted in six men being found guilty on 35 charges of similar crimes. A third of the men on the island were charged during the trial and the result was said to have shocked the islanders according to the New Zealand Herald.^[1][2] Young was tried alongside Shawn Christian, a descendant of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and a future mayor of the Pitcairn Islands.^[1][3] After the trial, Young was extradited to the Pitcairn Islands to be sentenced.^[1] In March 2007, Young was sentenced to six and a half years in jail by Chief Justice Charles Blackie of the Pitcairn Supreme Court.^[4]