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		</div><p>Serial sex attacker Joseph McCann is facing life behind bars for a string of horrific attacks on 11 women and children.</p>
<p>Convicted burglar McCann, 34, had been freed after a probation service error, two months before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.</p>
<p>Over 15 days, he abducted, raped and assaulted victims aged between 11 and 71 in Watford, London and the North West.</p>
<p>He allegedly used a “support network” across the country to evade police, despite being identified as a suspect on the day of his first attack.</p>
<p>McCann, who had addresses in Aylesbury and Harrow, refused to attend his Old Bailey trial and hid under a prison blanket rather than give evidence.</p>
<p>It was claimed on his behalf that the women he was accused of molesting had consensual sex, but that was dismissed as “ludicrous” by victims.</p>
<p>On Friday, the jury deliberated for five hours to find him guilty of 37 charges relating to 11 victims, including eight rapes, false imprisonment and kidnap.</p>
<p>In the early hours of April 21, McCann snatched a young woman in Watford and raped her.</p>
<p>The woman named her attacker to police, and McCann’s details were put on the Police National Computer and a prison recall was issued.</p>
<p>But McCann remained at large and on April 25 he abducted a 25-year-woman in Walthamstow, and subjected her to a 14-hour rape ordeal.</p>
<p>Hours later, he was caught on CCTV bundling another young woman into his car in north London, as her sister ran off screaming.</p>
<p>They escaped in Watford, after the 25-year-old hit McCann over the head with a vodka bottle.</p>
<p>The Metropolitan Police circulated a CCTV image of McCann in Watford and received a tip-off with his name following a public appeal.</p>
<p>On May 5, McCann tricked his way into the home of a woman he met in a bar in Greater Manchester, tied her up and molested her children, aged 17 and 11.</p>
<p>The teenage girl, who described McCann as “evil”, jumped out of a first-floor window to alert police.</p>
<p>Later that day, McCann pounced on a 71-year-old woman. He raped her, and abducted and assaulted a 13-year-old girl in her car, before they got away.</p>
<p>As police closed in, McCann forced two 14-year-old girls into the car by threatening to “chop them up” with a machete.</p>
<p>He was captured on CCTV buying condoms at a service station before he was spotted by a patrol car, which gave chase.</p>
<p>McCann drove the wrong way on a roundabout and crashed into a Mercedes before making off on foot, leaving the “terrified” girls behind.</p>
<p>A police helicopter finally located him up a tree, he was coaxed down and arrested early on May 6.</p>
<p>The violent offender later told police: <em>“If you had caught me for the first two, the rest of this wouldn’t have happened.”</em></p>
<p>McCann was convicted of 10 counts of false imprisonment, seven counts of rape, one count of rape of a child, two counts of causing or inciting a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, 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 a sexual offence with intent.</p>
<p>Following the verdicts, the Probation Service issued an “unreserved” apology for a blunder which led to McCann’s release in February, half way through a three-year sentence for burglary.</p>
<p>A probation officer was demoted after a Ministry of Justice review found McCann should have been immediately recalled to jail for an earlier offence.</p>
<p>Four men and two women have been arrested on suspicion of assisting McCann, and released under investigation.</p>
<p>Mr Justice Edis is considering imposing a discretionary life sentence on McCann on Monday.</p>
<p>Arrangements have been made for the defendant to appear in court, or via video link.</p>
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