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A frantic 999 call made by a mother whose daughter had just been snatched from the street was played in court at an alleged serial rapist’s trial on Tuesday.

Jurors were also shown CCTV footage of the victim being dragged into a car as her terrified younger sister sprinted away from the scene to raise the alarm.

Joseph McCann, 34, is accused of raping, sexually assaulting or kidnapping 11 women and children aged 11 to 71 over a two-week period in April and May.

He did not attend the opening of his trial at the Old Bailey yesterday as the court was told of the ‘depraved’ acts he is alleged to carried out.

Among these is the abduction of a 21-year-old woman as she walked home with her 18-year-old sister in Edgware, north London, on April 25. Footage taken yards from their front door shows a silver Ford S-Max pull up beside the women, before a man in a grey tracksuit leaps out and grabs one of them.