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Former Unity employee Rod Stafford sentenced to 22 years for sexual offences

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Last updated: 02.07.2025 13:01
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Former Unity employee Rod Stafford has been given a 22-year prison sentence after being charged with 33 sexual offences.

Oxford Crown Court confirmed to Game Developer that Stafford, who also used the names Roderick Bryce-Hagin and Roderick Bryce-Stafford, was sentenced yesterday (July 1).

Stafford formerly represented Unity as a senior client partner.

His conviction “includes a five-year extended license” and will “be subject to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.” He has also been placed on the UK sexual offenders register.

As reported by Oxford Mail, which details the charges, the trial took place in April 2025 during which Stafford denied being a “predator”.

Game Developer noted that Stafford “represented Unity as recently as 2024” at Develop:Brighton during which he hosted a talk called ‘The Challenges of Launching & Sustaining Multiplayer Games’. Stafford was listed as a member of its cloud and games services team.

He also spoke at Reboot Develop 2024 during a talk titled ‘The Future of Multiplayer Game Hosting’.

Game Developer’s senior news editor Chris Kerr noted on BlueSky that DICE Summit and Develop have since pulled Stafford’s information from its websites.

Game Developer reported that it has seen “documentation” that suggested Stafford was still with the company as of April 2025, when the trial took place.

In a statement issued to Game Developer, Unity said: “We’ve become aware that a former, UK-based employee is currently involved in a criminal case. The individual in question is no longer at Unity and his criminal case has no connection to Unity or its operations.”

Game Developer also highlighted a report from The Belfast Telegraph in 2004, which detailed Royal Scots captain Roderick Bryce-Stafford “was jailed for three-and-a-half months for preying on male and female comrades at Ballkelly Army base in 2002”.

It highlighted that Stafford confirmed he left the army in 2004 on his LinkedIn profile.

Kerr said that since publication, “Unity still hasn’t responded to my questions concerning how it managed to hire a man with a public history of sexual misconduct and when Stafford actually left the company.”

GamesIndustry.biz has reached out to Unity for further comment.

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