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Former public schoolboy Chiron Hutchinson, raped two women in Tunbridge Wells

A former public schoolboy who carried out rapes on two young women is facing jail.

Self-proclaimed city trader Chiron Hutchinson, who attended fee-paying St Bede’s, where model Lottie Moss was in the same year, was convicted yesterday of three offences of rape.

Neither victim had met him before they were attacked within six days of each other in Tunbridge Wells.

Chiron Hutchinson
Chiron Hutchinson

Both were described as drunk and in vulnerable states when Hutchinson drove them in his mother’s hire car to secluded areas on the outskirts of the town and attacked them.

Two other alleged victims also came forward as a result of subsequent publicity.

Hutchinson denied six offences of rape, six of sexual assault and one of attempted rape in relation to all four between July and October last year.

He was found guilty on majority verdicts of two rapes of a 17-year-old on October 2 and one rape of a 24-year-old on October 8, and cleared of all other charges.

The jury deliberated for more than 33 hours but was unaware that the 20-year-old had already pleaded guilty to two offences of sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl in September 2016.

But he openly confessed to the court when giving evidence that he was ‘an opportunist’ when it came to having sex, and went out to bars and clubs in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in the hope of ‘getting lucky’.

He also admitted he repeatedly lied about having a successful and wealthy career as a stockbroker and model to impress people.

Other revelations made by the Tesco shop worker included him confessing that he trawled the internet for rape videos and pornography, using search terms such as ‘teen rape’, ‘forced sex’ and ‘against her will’ when he was 17.

The 17-year-old met Hutchinson in MooMoo Clubrooms in Tunbridge Wells.
The 17-year-old met Hutchinson in MooMoo Clubrooms in Tunbridge Wells.

At the time he was studying for his AS levels at the £7,000 a term private school, in Hailsham, East Sussex where he said fellow pupils included the children of former Chelsea footballer Didier Drogba and rock musician Nick Cave and his wife Susie Bick.

Sentencing was adjourned by Judge Mark Dennis QC until October 16 and Hutchinson was remanded in custody. Rape carries a maximum life sentence.

Hutchinson put a hand over his mouth and pushed his head back when the guilty verdicts were announced.

On his arrest in October last year police also discovered he had looked at an online media report about a student being raped in toilets at a Tunbridge Wells nightclub, as well as one in The New Scientist about a test to prove rape.

The searches were carried out on his laptop within days of the three rapes he committed.

Well-spoken Hutchinson encountered a 24-year-old French woman by chance as she wandered home alone and drunk in Tunbridge Wells, in the early hours of October 8 last year.

He offered her a lift in his mother’s hire car, only to drive her to secluded woodland, push her out of the vehicle and attack her from behind on the bonnet.

She repeatedly tried to fight him off, at one point even hitting him in desperation with her lipstick.

Hutchinson eventually drove the woman to a friend’s house. She was ‘distressed and dishevelled’ and screaming she had been raped, Maidstone Crown Court heard.

Prosecutor Christopher May said the attack occurred when Hutchinson was ‘feeling frustrated’ after another young woman spurned his sexual advances in his car less than two hours earlier.

Following his arrest four days later and being charged with rape, the court was told three teenagers aged 16, 17 and 18 came forward.

The 17-year-old had twice been raped just six days earlier on October 2 after meeting Hutchinson in MooMoo Clubrooms in Tunbridge Wells.

She was attacked both inside and outside his mum’s car after he drove to a wooded area.

The pair were jailed at Maidstone Crown Court
The pair were jailed at Maidstone Crown Court

Hutchinson, of Mount Pleasant Road, Uckfield, East Sussex, was 18 and 19 at the time of all three rapes.

During his four-week trial the court was shown footage Hutchinson filmed on his mobile phone of one victim drunk and sitting bare-legged in his mum’s Subaru.

He however described her as being ‘tipsy and excitable’.

He also boasted in a call to a friend about taking another girl’s virginity in a play-fight, as he described it, only for his friend to reply: “It sounds like rape.”

Hutchinson was cleared of all offences alleged against her, including rape.

Another victim claimed he sexually assaulted and tried to rape her after driving her to his stables late at night in the Sussex village of Berwick.

She told the court he continuously laughed as he pinned her on the unlit barn floor, put his hands under her clothing and told her she ‘wanted it’.

However, she said she fought him off by punching him in the face.

Again he was cleared of all offences relating to her.

Hutchinson spent three days giving evidence in court, starting on what was his 20th birthday.

He denied any sexual activity at the stables, other than mutual flirting and him twice trying to kiss the girl.

He said the three other victims all consented to sex.

Hutchinson told the jury he had always had a lot of female friends, preferring their company as he was bullied as a child, and was in a relationship until early 2016.

Describing himself as flirtatious, he added: “I have always found it easier to engage with women. I learned a lot about what women liked and didn’t like, and what they found attractive, and have a good understanding of women.”

Before attending St Bede’s to study for AS levels, Hutchinson was a pupil at Uckfield Community Technology College as well as a Montessori private school.

St Bede’s school, Sussex.
St Bede’s school, Sussex.

His fake claims about enjoying a wealthy lifestyle also included boasts of having an apartment in London’s Hampstead and clients wanting to invest hundreds of thousands of pounds in his trading firm. He told one victim he could ‘open doors’ for her.

But in reality he lived at home with his mum, Louise, and had only ‘dabbled’ in stockbroking by setting up an account.

She was in court throughout his trial but did not attend once the jury began its deliberations or for the verdicts.

Hutchinson told the court he regularly lied about his background because people ‘bestowed an expectation’ on him due to his private education, well-spoken voice and owning horses.

He was originally charged with a further three offences of rape, one of attempted rape and two of sexual assault in relation to a fifth woman between November 1, 2015, and April 1 last year.

However, no evidence was offered before his trial started in respect of all six offences after the alleged victim stated she no longer wanted to support the prosecution.

After the verdicts, an NSPCC spokesperson said: “This is a shocking case in which Hutchinson deliberately targeted vulnerable victims for his own sexual gratification.

“Each has shown immense courage in speaking out about their ordeals and it’s important that they continue to receive all appropriate help and support.

“Anyone who is concerned about a child can contact the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 800 5000. Children and young people can call Childline on 0800 1111 or get help online via www.childline.org.uk

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