A rape victim has described the trauma she experienced after the offender was jailed for nine years. John Hutton, of Old Rectory Close, Barham, had denied raping a woman back in July 2021 but was unanimously convicted by a jury at Ipswich Crown Court on May 3 after a trial. The court heard that Hutton, 34, raped the woman after walking her home from the Fox pub in Elmswell where he had met her and her friends on a night out.
The woman said she recalled being unable to move during the assault. During the trial, the court heard she shouted for him to leave twice but he did not and her 10-year-old daughter was witness to her mother arriving back with Hutton. In a statement to the court, she described the serious toll the attack had taken on her and said she felt compelled to leave her home, where the offence took place.
Barham man John Hutton has been jailed (Image: Suffolk Police) The victim said: “I felt almost dead emotionally and physically. “The happy times I should have been experiencing with my loved ones have been lost and everything that should have brought me joy was stained by this event. “It made me hate my body.
I would feel physically sick when I looked at it and before this happened I was thriving in life.” She explained how she hated the place where it happened. “I no longer felt safe and was constantly triggered.
The home I had loved became just the house I was raped in.” She continued and said it was not just her own suffering, but also that of her .