Rapist forces victim to stab another woman in the leg

A MAN who held two women hostage, raping one after forcing her to stab the other, has been jailed for 16 years.

Anthony Hutchings used a machete, knife, saw and hammer to torture his victims in an argument over drugs at an outbuilding at his home.

Hutchings, 27, made one woman strip and endure an internal search for “stolen” drugs.

He kicked and punched both

BRUTE Anthony Hutchings

women and held a machete to one’s throat, Canterbury crown court heard. Hutchings, of Seasalter, Kent, then made one of his prisoners stab the other in the leg. The knifed woman fled but her captor raped his remaining victim three times and made her take medication that was not hers. Hutchings was convicted of a string of offences including rape. Judge Simon James told him: “You pose a serious risk of causing harm to women.”