{"id":16165,"date":"2019-12-09T08:20:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=16165"},"modified":"2019-12-09T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:20:23","slug":"serial-rapist-joseph-mccann-given-33-life-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/12\/09\/serial-rapist-joseph-mccann-given-33-life-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial rapist Joseph McCann given 33 life sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"

A serial rapist who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and children across England has been given 33 life sentences.<\/p>\n

Joseph McCann’s victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.<\/p>\n

He was found guilty of 37 offences at the Old Bailey on Friday.<\/p>\n

Mr Justice Edis said he had no doubt McCann, of Harrow, was “a threat to children and a paedophile”.<\/p>\n

The judge also called for an “independent and systematic” investigation to be held as to why “the system failed to protect” McCann’s victims.<\/p>\n

McCann, a convicted burglar, had been released from prison following a probation error in February before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old’s “spree of sex attacks” started in Watford in April before he moved to London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire over two weeks.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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