Pictured: American pilot accused of kidnapping girl, nine, outside Harrods before drugging and sexually assaulting her

This is the erstwhile US Airforce skipper who is connected proceedings accused of kidnapping a nine-year-old French miss extracurricular Harrods earlier allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting her.

The tribunal heard Robert Prussak, 57, approached the confused kid aft she was separated from her household arsenic they entered the historical store during a vacation successful London.

CCTV shown successful tribunal shows the American aviator enjoying luncheon astatine Gaucho soon earlier helium walks past Harrods and spots the young miss looking for her parents.

After initially walking past the kid helium returns to attack her and begins talking to her via a translating app.

Prussak, who served successful the US subject for astir 20 years, was past seen starring the young miss to a serviced flat helium was staying successful fractional a mile away.

The miss is kept wrong the flat successful Chelsea Cloisters for astir 2 hours wherever Isleworth Crown Court heard she was drugged with an 'antihistamine with marked sedative effects'

Earlier she told the tribunal she sat connected his sofa watching TV, and helium offered her 2 glasses of water, which she said she drank.

She said the h2o tasted 'bitter and a spot strange', and that she felt bushed aft drinking it.

'I felt similar closing my eyes, and I felt similar going to sleep,' she said.

She said she was past taken to a adjacent park, wherever helium is alleged to person sexually assaulted her.

'He touched my tummy…He pulled down my trousers. He kissed maine connected some cheeks and the mouth,' she said.

CCTV aboriginal shows Prussak dropping the miss disconnected astatine Kensington Fire Station wherever she frantically tries to unfastened the locked the doors.

When she is incapable to enter, she runs backmost to her abductor and the brace are past approached by equipped constabulary officers who arrested the pilot.

The child's disquieted parents had raised the alarm wrong minutes of her disappearing and described their panic to the tribunal via video link.

They had told constabulary that arsenic they were entering Harrods they were 'so mesmerised by the size of the gathering that they momentarily were not paying attraction to the children'.

Her begetter said helium had spent the time travelling astir London with his woman and 3 children, visiting Buckingham Palace earlier stopping astatine Harrods.

He said the household realised that his girl was not with them erstwhile they entered the section store adding: 'We started panicking.'

He told the tribunal however his woman started searching the thoroughfare extracurricular for their child, portion helium looked wrong the sprawling store.

Harrods unit checked the CCTV and constabulary arrived who soon showed him a harrowing representation of his girl walking distant with a antheral helium did not recognise.

'I understood it was overmuch much superior than what I thought,' helium said.

'At first, erstwhile the minutes were passing by, I thought she was lost, but erstwhile I saw the representation of the antheral I thought she could person been abducted,' helium said.

The girl's parent besides described the infinitesimal constabulary showed her the photograph of her girl walking distant with a unusual man.

'I was retired of words, I could not judge it,' she said.

'I was precise stressed, but I tried to support calm for the different children.'

The assemblage besides heard grounds from, a French-speaking lawsuit services idiosyncratic astatine Harrods who translated for the parents.

She said unit astatine the section store sprung into enactment aft the parents informed them that their kid was missing.

She said the girl's begetter appeared to person a 'mental breakdown' adding: 'He was precise uncomfortable with the situation…..I retrieve determination were times I adjacent saw him crying.'

Prussak, who appeared successful tribunal from custody, denies 3 counts of intersexual battle of a kid nether the property of 13.

He besides denies 1 number of kidnapping, 1 number of committing an offence of kidnapping with an intent to perpetrate a intersexual offence, and 1 number of administering a substance with intent.

The proceedings continues.