{"id":14549,"date":"2019-05-06T06:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=14549"},"modified":"2019-05-06T06:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:40:15","slug":"joseph-mccann-arrested-after-new-abductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/05\/06\/joseph-mccann-arrested-after-new-abductions\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph McCann arrested after new abductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Police hunting a fugitive over the abduction and rapes of three women in and around London have arrested a man after two others were abducted in Cheshire.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest attack on Sunday, two women were forced into a black Fiat Punto in Congleton town centre.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph McCann was found in a tree on a rural lane following a car chase.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old was spoken to by police negotiators and arrested, Cheshire Constabulary confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Punto was seen in Congleton on Sunday evening by officers. Following a short chase, the car stopped on Obelisk Way having been in a crash with another car.<\/p>\n<p>The women were left behind as the driver ran off. They were uninjured but have been left &#8220;extremely shaken&#8221;, the force said.<\/p>\n<p>Offices revealed they had found a suspect shortly after 23:00 BST.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/1059A\/production\/_106807966_mediaitem106807965.jpg\" alt=\"Scene of the crash at Obelisk Way, Congleton\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">The car carrying the two abducted women crashed with another vehicle near Obelisk Way<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr McCann was also wanted for questioning over the abduction and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the early hours of 21 April.<\/p>\n<p>During that attack, the victim was approached by a man holding a knife in Hagden Lane at about 03:30 BST.<\/p>\n<p>She was forced into a Ford Mondeo and driven around the town for six hours before being raped.<\/p>\n<p>The Met Police launched an appeal to find Mr McCann after two women in their 20s were snatched off streets in London on 25 April.<\/p>\n<p>A woman was abducted in Chingford at about 00:30, and another at 12:15 in Edgware.<\/p>\n<p>Both women, aged in their 20s, were raped before being driven to a hotel in Watford, where the attacker attempted to book a room but left when one was unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>The women escaped following a struggle in Osborne Road at about 14:30.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-48170106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Police hunting a fugitive over the abduction and rapes of three women in and around London have arrested a man after two others were abducted in Cheshire. In the latest attack on Sunday, two women <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/05\/06\/joseph-mccann-arrested-after-new-abductions\/\" title=\"Joseph McCann arrested after new abductions\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,4],"tags":[6197,3912,6198,6199,20,5395],"class_list":{"0":"post-14549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-uk","10":"tag-abduction","11":"tag-cheshire","12":"tag-congleton","13":"tag-joseph-mccann","14":"tag-rape","15":"tag-watford","16":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14551,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions\/14551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}