The mother of the alleged victim in the Whitstable attempted rape trial told today of the "moment of madness" she found her daughter half-naked.

She revealed how the 20-year-old had arrived home in a panic without her trousers, pants or shoes, telling the jury: "Bang - it just hit home and I thought: 'Where’s everything gone?'"

The mother was giving evidence on the third day of the trial of former police community support officer 25-year-old Michael Brock – who denies attempted rape and sexual assault.

She told the jury at Canterbury Crown Court she had gone to bed in December last year when she heard the front door being opened.

"I got up when I heard the noise. She was very panicky, very confused. I said to her: 'What’s going on?' She was all over the place. She then sat down on the steps and began saying: 'Someone’s coming after me'."

The prosecution has claimed she was attacked by Brock, pictured left, who she had met in a bar in Whitstable when she was out with friends.

Brock, of Cornwallis Circle, Canterbury, is alleged to have grabbed the girl and taken off her trousers and pants – before she managed to run away.

The mother added: "She said to me: 'He tried to rape me and he’s coming after me and my friends are out there’.

"It was a moment of complete madness. I said to her: 'Where’s your phone?' But it wasn’t until she got up that I realised she had nothing on. Bang... it just hit home... and I thought: 'Where’s everything gone?'

"All she had on was a top - there were no trousers and no shoes no nothing. She must have run all that way home like that. I had never seen her like this before. So I called the police."

Oliver Saxby, prosecuting, had told the jury earlier how the girl claimed she was subjected to an "extremely serious, violent and frightening sexual assault" as she made her way home.

The trial continues.