Former public schoolboy accused of multiple sex attacks

A former public schoolboy accused of carrying out sex attacks on four young women had searched pornographic websites for rape videos, a court heard.

Computer equipment belonging to Chiron Hutchinson, 20, who was in the same year of school at £7,000-a-term Bede’s in Hailsham, Sussex, as model and socialite Lottie Moss, was seized by police following his arrest.

It was found to contain search phrases such as ‘rape video’, ‘teen rape’, ‘girl anal raped on first date’, and ‘beautiful girl forced against her will and then starts to like it’, a jury was told.

Some dated back to when the self-proclaimed city trader was just 17. 

Police also found an online news report about an A level student who was raped in a Tunbridge Wells nightclub toilet, a search for ‘can you test if someone has had sex with a particular person’, and an article in The New Scientist headlined ‘Test can prove rape days later’.

These were made within days of him allegedly raping a drunk woman after offering her a lift home, and before the attack had even been reported to police.

Prosecutor Christopher May told Maidstone Crown Court in Kent that police software identified 69 pornography searches, with 35 containing the words ‘forced’ or ‘against her will’.

However, he added it did not locate all the porn on the hard drive and even though the evidence suggested the internet pages had been visited, it was not possible to establish whether the videos were ever viewed, or if it was Hutchinson who carried out the searches.

Maidstone Crown Court heard the seized computer was found to contain search phrases such as ‘rape video’, ‘teen rape’, ‘girl anal raped on first date’, and ‘beautiful girl forced against her will and then starts to like it’

Now aged 20, he is on trial accused of a string of sex attacks on three teenagers and a 24-year-old French woman in secluded woodland in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, stables in the Sussex village of Berwick, or at the home he shared with his mother in nearby Uckfield, between July and October last year.

A jury heard all four alleged victims were made vulnerable either by their drunken state or by location, to which Hutchinson drove them in his mother’s hire car.

The former waiter and Tesco shop assistant also claimed to be a successful stockbroker and model with an apartment in London’s Hampstead. 

This was in a bid to ‘impress or dissuade’ them from reporting the attacks, the prosecution allege.

Giving evidence on his birthday (Fri Sept 1) he admitted lying about his background, but only because people ‘bestowed an expectation’ on him that he was wealthy.

Describing his life as ordinary and ‘not particularly rich’ despite also attending a private Montessori school as a youngster, he said: ‘The fact I had horses, spoke well and went to private school, people assumed I was incredibly wealthy and so I lived up to the expectation bestowed on me.

‘One or two things led to me lying about my lifestyle and the life I lived. This was one of them, just trying to impress people and be someone I thought people would like.’

Hutchinson, who described himself as flirtatious and having ‘a good understanding’ of what women liked, denies six offences of rape, including one of anal rape, one of attempted rape and six of sexual assault.

The court heard the first rape reported to police was that of the French woman in woodland on October 8. She was said to be intoxicated and unsteady on her feet when Hutchinson encountered her in the street within hours of another young woman rejecting his sexual advances, leaving him ‘frustrated.’

Now aged 20, Hutchinson is on trial accused of a string of sex attacks on three teenagers and a 24-year-old French woman in secluded woodland in Tunbridge Wells (pictured)

It is alleged he drove to an area known as Toad Rock on the outskirts of Tunbridge Wells where he pushed her out of his mum’s hired Subaru.

He then forced her face down on his car bonnet and raped her as she tried to fight him off, even lashing out with her lipstick.

Hutchinson then drove her to a friend’s house where she arrived in a ‘dishevelled and distressed’ state. He was arrested four days later but told police they had consensual sex.

Publicity after he was charged then led to the three other alleged victims, aged 16, 17 and 18, coming forward, the court was told.

Two were virgins, with one claiming she had been repeatedly raped both in and out of Hutchinson’s car, and then back at his home after meeting him in Tunbridge Wells nightclub MooMoo’s just six nights earlier on October 2.

Again, he claimed they had consensual sex and the court was shown phone footage he had filmed of her sitting bare-legged in his car, smiling and laughing.

He told the court she was ‘tipsy and excitable’ and denied raping her on one occasion while she slept.

Asked if at any time he thought she was not consenting, he said: ‘No, definitely not. There is no way there could be any sign of any kind of reluctance in any way. If anything, she was forward for it.’

Another of his alleged victims was driven by Hutchinson to his stables in the early hours of July 8 last year. But she told the court once at the unlit barn he repeatedly tried to kiss her against her will before pinning her on the ground, putting his hand inside her clothing and attempting to rape her.

The 18-year-old said Hutchinson was laughing throughout her ordeal, telling her she ‘wanted it’ because he had been to the gym and lost weight.

She eventually fought him off by punching him in the face, and then locked herself in his car.

However, Hutchinson continued to try to kiss her, despite her protests, after agreeing to drive her home, the court heard.

But he told the jury they were having a good time simply chatting, and nothing sexual happened between them other than flirting and him twice trying to kiss her.

He to!d the jury the allegations she had made about his behaviour were ‘absolutely unacceptable’ and he was very shocked to be arrested.

Asked by his barrister if there was any truth in the teen’s claims he had molested her, Hutchinson replied: ‘Not at all, unless attempting to kiss is considered sexual assault.’