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Mother's frantic 999 call after six-year-old was snatched from bathPeter Ivor Voisey: Accused of kidnap and sexual assault of six-year-old
04 October 2006
A jury today heard a mother describe her panic when she realised her six-year-old daughter had been snatched from the bath.
The child was kidnapped, driven off in a car and subjected to two serious sexual assaults, then dumped naked in a freezing back lane on December 27 last year in North Tyneside.
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• Girl relives the night a 'bad man' snatched her at bathtime
Peter Ivor Voisey, also known as Smith, a 37-year-old from Blyth, Northumberland, denies abduction, rape and sexual assault on the little girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
The mother told Newcastle Crown Court how the little girl and her brother, a toddler, had shared a bath and that the girl had been left alone to play with her toys.
She told the jury her daughter loved bath time and enjoyed talking to all of her toys, who were her friends.
She said: "Then I heard: 'What are you doing in here?'
"She said it, she was not scared or anything.
"I thought she was talking to her toys, which would have been usual.
"I didn't respond to that comment, I wish I had now, but I didn't. Then I heard the car. I shouted: 'Are you OK?'
"Her voice was not there any more. That was unusual because she doesn't shut up but there was no response.
"The telly was on so I turned it down because I might have missed her saying 'yeah'. I called her again, again there was silence."
She told the court how she frantically searched the downstairs two-bedroom flat, even believing she may have forgotten putting the girl in bed.
"Then there was panic, running about and I phoned the police."
The jury was told the mother had left the back door unlocked because she was clearing boxes from Christmas presents into the backyard. When the intruder fled with her daughter, he left it open.
The court was played the 999 call in which the mother quite calmly explained what had happened, while her partner can be heard crying in the background.
At one point the operator asks the mother, who is separated from the father of her two children, if she has an ex-partner.
The mother replies: "I have, but this is not something he would do." Minutes later the police arrive and quickly establish that the girl has been found nearby.
The mother told the jury: "I don't know how long it was. It felt like hours but I couldn't say. I know it was not that long now."
The mother told the jury how it was more than a week later when the full extent of the girl's ordeal emerged.
The girl, who was having trouble sleeping, told her mother that the "nasty man" forced her to perform a sex act on him.
The mother told the jury: "She was six. How could she explain what had happened?
"It made her feel sick and when she told me, she put her hand to her mouth.
"She still does if she mentions it or if she thinks about it. She still gets that retching feeling."
The mother told the court how two days after the kidnapping, the family was on the way to a get-together when her daughter recognised local landmarks which she had spotted during the 15-minute car journey with the abductor.
Earlier, the jury was played a one-hour video taped police interview with the child.
In it she explained that the intruder wore a black leather coat, black hat and gloves and leather shoes. She described being abandoned in the dark.
"My feet were absolutely freezing. I didn't know where I was and he just told me, 'Just stand there."'
The girl described the man as being wary of being spotted.
"I don't want to remember anything about his face but he looked scared."
The case continues.
