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| Joseph McCann: Man embarked on 'series of depraved sex attacks' | Joseph McCann: Man embarked on 'series of depraved sex attacks' |
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| A man embarked on a series of "depraved" sex attacks on women and children, one as young as 11, a court has heard. | A man embarked on a series of "depraved" sex attacks on women and children, one as young as 11, a court has heard. |
| Joseph McCann is accused of 37 offences against 11 alleged victims, including rapes, kidnap and false imprisonment, over two weeks in April and May. | |
| The Old Bailey heard the 34-year-old snatched two women off London streets and told one he would "never release her" as he raped her multiple times. | The Old Bailey heard the 34-year-old snatched two women off London streets and told one he would "never release her" as he raped her multiple times. |
| Mr McCann of Harrow denies the charges. | Mr McCann of Harrow denies the charges. |
| The jury was told one 25-year-old woman was abducted as she walked home in Walthamstow, east London, just after midnight on 25 April. | |
| Prosecutor John Price QC said the defendant told her "to stop screaming or he would stab her" then dragged her into a car "and drove off". | |
| The court heard the woman was raped "many times" in various locations over the next 14 hours and subjected to acts of "shocking depravity and violence". | |
| "He made her call him 'daddy' and say that she was a child. At one point the man parked the car near to a school, saying that he wanted to make her rape a child," Mr Price said. | |
| Later the same day, and while still holding the woman prisoner, the defendant abducted a 21-year-old woman in Edgware, north London, as she walked along the street with her sister, the court heard. | |
| CCTV of the woman being bundled into a silver people carrier just after midday was played to the jury. |