A predatory hospital nurse who raped two patients while they were unconscious under general anaesthetic has been jailed for 18 years. Andrew Hutchinson, 29, molested two women at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford between 2011 and 2013.....
The A&E nurse filmed the horrific attacks, storing them on a computer at his home alongside 'hundreds' of other indecent images.
He has been jailed for 18 years following a trial at Oxford Crown Court where he admitted 25 other offences including voyeurism and outraging public decency.
Alongside footage of the hospital rapes was a cache of 'up skirt' images and indecent photographs of children, some of which had been taken on a camera stolen from the hospital.
One of the images was taken up the skirt of a woman as she stood at her sickly friend's bedside, the court heard.
The court heard how Hutchinson told police had filmed or taken photographs of up to 50 women without their knowledge over a period of 12 years in Abingdon, Oxford, and in Batley, West Yorkshire, where he used to live.
He carried the endoscope camera around John Radcliffe Hospital with the sole intent of photographing both patients and women visiting them.
The rapist used a similar tactic while volunteering at the 2012 London Olympics, filming women as they walked up the escalators of the Tube.
While working as a volunteer paramedic at a musical festival he also groped two women and indecently assaulted them while they were unconscious in a medical tent, the court heard.
He was finally caught by police after trying to use his mobile phone to film two young girls as they changed in a cubicle at the White Horse Leisure Centre in Abingdon.
Hutchinson admitted 23 sexual offences and four of a different nature at an earlier court hearing. He showed no emotion as he was sentenced today.
Describing his abhorrent offences, Judge Ian Pringle said it was 'impossible to conceive a greater breach of trust in our society'.
Earlier the court heard how Hutchinson had abused his position as a trusted health worker to abuse vulnerable women on several occasions.
While working as a volunteer paramedic at the Wilderness Music Festival at Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, he filmed himself assaulting two youngsters who had passed out.
He had been put in charge of the nursing operation at the festival, a position he maneuvered to gain time alone with his victims.
While they lay unconscious in the tent, he used the stolen camera to film their genitals before assaulting them.
Prosecuting Matthew Walsh said his 'depraved' behaviour was an 'extraordinary breach of trust'.
'In his role he was tasked with treating and caring for patients who at the time were at their most vulnerable and these sexual acts were committed against these women at a time when they were unconscious and receiving medical care,' he said.
In one horrifying episode Hutchinson used his mobile phone to film up the skirt of a woman as paramedics frantically tried to resuscitate her collapsed friend at John Radcliffe Hospital.
'What this defendant was doing, rather than assisting in the process, he was placing his mobile phone up the skirt of the woman stood by the bed,' added Mr Walsh.
'He was more concerned with his own gratification than with that woman's welfare.'
The court heard evidence from some of Hutchinson's victims - the youngest of whom was just nine - via harrowing police statements.
One of the women who he raped while she was unconscious in John Radcliffe Hospital told of the horrifying moment she had to identify herself in the footage when it was brought to her by police.
Investigators tracked the women down by cross-referencing patient admission records. When they showed them the footage, neither had any knowledge of the attacks they had endured.
In a statement read to the court one of the women, who were 18 and 35 at the time of the rapes, said: 'I think that what he has done is much worse that doing it in the street because I had no idea what was happening, so I had no opportunity to fight back.'
Another said: 'I thought I had been cared for properly by the nursing staff, which is what you would expect from the NHS.
'My life has completely changed. It has been on my mind every day. My emotions have been up and down.'
One told how she could no longer trust men after learning she had been filmed naked while another said she felt 'pure hatred' towards the nurse.
Another child said she was too scared to return to the White Horse Leisure Centre in Abingdon where he had filmed her, while one teenager said the 'embarrassing and degrading' crime would stay with her for the rest of her life.
Speaking after the sentencing, Detective Chief Inspector Mark Johns of Thames Valley Police, who led Operation Bream to trace Hutchinson's victims and bring him to justice, said: 'I have no doubt that Hutchinson would have continued to offend had he not been arrested so I am delighted that this prolific offender will now be behind bars for a significant period of his life.
'This has been a particularly complicated, unusual and sensitive case as the victims of his sex offences were not aware that offences took place because they were not conscious.
'I would like to thank the victims for the great courage and dignity they have shown during our investigation. I cannot imagine the distress they have been through since we had to inform them they were a victim in this complex investigation.
'I hope the victims feel some sense of justice now Hutchinson has been convicted and sentenced.'
He said that all victims who could be identified had been contacted by police.
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