Page 2The 28-year-old had denied causing grievous bodily harm with intent but was found guilty by a jury. McCutcheon was found guilty with intent, two counts of false imprisonment, two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and theft of a motor vehicle pagePage 3A man who was in the flat at the time of the attack described it as "shocking" and like a "kneecapping".The woman later told a nurse McCutcheon had microwaved water for two minutes before pouring it on her head, stopping half way through to see how she was reacting, the jury heard. The woman - seen by police to be "hysterically crying and shaking" - was taken by ambulance to a Newcastle hospital, and detained in a specialist burns unit for a week. Her scalp was noted to be bleeding and blistered, large parts of her hair were cut away and a doctor who also saw multiple bruises thought initially the head and shoulder burns covered around 10 per cent of her body.Page 4Although she told police and the nurse in the aftermath that McCutcheon had inflicted the injuries, she later changed her story and insisted she had self-harmed during a court trial. McCutcheon denied causing grievous bodily harm with intent, two counts of false imprisonment and two charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by plotting with a friend, 33-year-old Christopher Lowe, to derail the prosecution by trying to persuade the woman and the other man present in the flat that night not to assist policePage 5Jailing McCutcheon, and imposing an extended four-year license period, Recorder Jeremy Lasker observed: "You subjected her to a sustained and wholly gratuitous assault." Recorder Lasker concluded: "You are, in my view, a very dangerous man indeed. “Lowe, of Cumberland Court, Carlisle, admitted two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, and was jailed for 27 months.