March 2011 Rapist jailed for 17 years for attacks on schoolgirl A computer engineer has been jailed for 17 years for repeatedly raping a schoolgirl. Jason Cutts, 43, had denied the allegation but was last month found guilty by a jury at Ipswich Crown Court. Cutts, of Birdwood Road, Cambridge, also introduced the 14-year-old to business partner Phillip Skinner, 60, who also raped her. The court heard that Cutts and Skinner had each watched as the other had sex with the girl on a sofa. She became pregnant. Judge John Devaux imposed an extended sentence on Cutts totalling 27 years, with 17 years to be served in prison. Cutts was also ordered to be placed on the Sexual Offenders Register indefinitely. A laptop computer seized by police from Cutts and found to contain child pornography will be destroyed. Judge Devaux told Cutts a lengthy prison term was the only appropriate sentence because of the “extremely serious” nature of the offences. Cutts was convicted of six offences of rape, two of indecent assault, 13 of making indecent images of children, one of possessing an indecent image of a child and one of distributing an indecent image of a child. The offences took place between March 2001 and November 2005, some of them in Haverhill. Following the rapes by Cutts the girl, from Haverhill, who is now 24, fell pregnant and he helped arrange for her to have a termination. Giving evidence, Cutts claimed the girl’s allegations were “just a fantasy” and said he had not been responsible for her becoming pregnant. He also denied having put indecent images of children on his computer. Cutts had run a computer business with Skinner from premises in Hollands Road, Haverhill, and with shops in Sudbury and Halstead. Skinner, of Kitchen Hill, Bulmer, near Sudbury, was also found guilty of an offence of raping the same girl between December 2005 and November 2006. He had already pleaded guilty to possession of indecent images of children following the seizure of his laptop as part of the same investigation. The prosecution alleged Skinner had offered Cutts cash payments in return for arranging sex with the girl. Skinner, who has served a previous prison sentence for possession of child pornography, admitted that he was attracted to girls aged between 11 and 14 and enjoyed viewing indecent images of them but denied ever having sex with a girl of that age.