‘Serial sex attacker’ allegedly ‘raped victim, 25, next to school as he hunted for kid he wanted her to rape’
A WOMAN has claimed an alleged serial sex attacker raped her next to a school as he hunted for a kid he wanted her to rape. Joseph McCann, 34, is said to have abducted the 25-year-old just a few metres from her home in Walthamstow, London, after midnight on April 25. He was arrested hiding […]
A WOMAN has claimed an alleged serial sex attacker raped her next to a school as he hunted for a kid he wanted her to rape.
Joseph McCann, 34, is said to have abducted the 25-year-old just a few metres from her home in Walthamstow, London, after midnight on April 25.
He was arrested hiding up a tree in Cheshire after a fortnight during which victims as young as 11 and as old as 71 were kidnapped, raped, and sexually assaulted, the Old Bailey was told.
The second of McCann’s alleged victims said she was repeatedly raped during a 14-hour ordeal as he drove her to different parts of North London and into Epping Forest.
‘HORROR ORDEAL’
In a recorded police interview played in court, she said: “When it got light we had driven a long way away. He parked outside a school.
“He kept saying he needed to find a kid and he was going to make me rape a kid.
“He was talking, talking, talking all the time – he talked about child marriage and how it was legal in some countries.”
McCann allegedly raped her while they were parked outside the school and threatened to drive to Poland with her.
The woman said she could not remember how many times she was raped that night because it had been so many.
He also threatened to throw her into a canal to “wash the DNA” off her, jurors were told.
The woman said she was first dragged into his car when “someone put their hand over my mouth and told me to stop screaming – he said ‘you f***** with my sister”.
‘HE SAID HE WOULD KILL HER’
At one point he forced her to take out £250 cash and buy him a list of things from a corner shop, including a bottle of vodka.
The shopkeeper asked her if she was okay but the woman was unable to answer because McCann was standing by the door watching her, the court heard.
Just after midnight on April 25, McCann allegedly forced a 21-year-old woman into his car in Edgware, North London, while a second woman managed to escape.
The witness said: “He told the girl not to use her phone or he would slit her throat or drown her.
“He kept saying he had someone in the police and we would never escape him. He started saying to the girl he was going to kill her.”
The two women eventually managed to escape when the 25-year-old smashed McCann over the head with a vodka bottle, jurors heard.
McCann, from Harrow, north-west London, denies 37 charges relating to 11 alleged victims aged between 11 and 71.
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He faces 10 counts of false imprisonment, seven counts of rape, one count of rape of a child, and two counts of causing or inciting a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.
McCann is further charged with seven counts of kidnap, one count of attempted kidnap, three counts of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, three counts of assault by penetration, one count of sexual assault and two counts of committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence.
The Old Bailey trial, which is expected to last six weeks, continues.
