A former nurse who raped and sexually assaulted unconscious patients in hospitals and at a music festival has been jailed for 18 years. Andrew Hutchinson, 29, from Garford near Abingdon, pleaded guilty to a series of sex offences at Oxford Crown Court.
The court heard that Hutchinson used a specialist throat camera to film up a visitor's skirt at a hospital and recorded young girls changing at a swimming pool. He also groped two women who had passed out in a first aid tent while working as a volunteer paramedic at a music festival.
Hutchinson's crimes came to light after his arrest in November 2013 on suspicion of voyeurism at a leisure centre in Abingdon. Police later recovered images and films of sex offences, indecent images of children, and upskirt footage from devices seized from him.
In police interview footage, Hutchinson showed no remorse, replying 'no comment' to each question. Victims described their anguish in court, with one rape victim saying, 'It has made me feel dirty and disgusted. He took advantage of me when I was at my most vulnerable.'
Chief Crown Prosecutor Adrian Foster said Hutchinson abused his position of trust and took advantage of vulnerable victims. He was employed as a staff nurse at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford at the time of his arrest.
