Sex offender David Peers has been jailed
Husna Anjum and David Powell
16:50, 08 Jan 2026
A man had sex with an underage girl in his house as his wife was giving birth the same day.
NorthWales Live reported that David Peers would have sexual encounters with the victim in his car and his house.
A few years later Peers, now 71, had sex with another underage girl. He admitted a string of historic sex offences which all happened in the 1980s.
A judge at Mold Crown Court today jailed Peers, of Llay New Road, Llay, Wrexham for a total of eight years and four months.
Dafydd Roberts, prosecuting, said Peers' first victim, who is now an adult and cannot be named due to lifelong anonymity, was a teenager and he was in his late twenties when they met in the early eighties.
Peers drove her to a lane for their meetings in his car. He kissed her, exposed himself and asked her to perform sexual acts.
He would "instruct her what to do," the court heard.
Later that year he invited the teenage girl to his house.
She would visit when his wife was out and they would have sex and carry out other sexual acts, said Mr Roberts.
The following year the girl was walking past his house on the day his wife gave birth.
Mr Roberts said: "He called (the girl) over, invited her in, took her upstairs and they had penetrative sex in the bedroom."
Peers also committed a sex act with the girl on a coach, with Peers covering her with his coat.
Today (Thursday) the court heard Peers later met another underage girl and committed similar offences against her.
He was 21 years older than her. Once again it started with kissing in his car and then sexual activity before penetrative sex at his home.
She would skip school to meet Peers during the offences over three years, said Mr Roberts.
Today Peers’ first victim read out a powerful statement.
From behind a screen in the court, she said: "I felt isolated and emotionally burdened with the complexities of what I thought was an adult relationship.
"I felt blamed and humiliated. I felt confused and ashamed and I did not know how to deal with it all."
But it shaped how she became and she has been in a "dark place for decades believing I'm a bad and terrible person".
She said she has suffered psychologically for most of her adult life.
The second victim, in her statement, said her early teenage years were "tarnished by the methodical and calculated grooming". It had a detrimental effect in her education and social life.
Peers had taken intimate photographs of her and his threats to disclose them contributed to problems in her marriage which resulted in divorce, she said.
She took anti-depressants and is reliving the past through these court proceedings, she added.
Peers admitted seven offences of indecently assaulting his first victim who was a girl under 16.
He was also convicted of two offences of indecently assaulting his second victim who was also under 16, and of two counts of committing an act of gross indecency against that girl.
Alun Williams, defending, accepts his offences had a "profound" effect on his victims. For that Peers apologises, he said.
His client is retired with a good work history. He is not in good health having had a diagnosis of skin cancer.
He is also due to have an exploratory operation for an abdominal condition.
The judge His Honour Timothy Petts told Peers he had been significantly older than his victims.
He was not someone who had been "slightly careless about age boundaries".
He added that taking the "degrading" photos of the second victim had been an aggravating factor.
He jailed Peers for five years and four months, with concurrent sentences for offences against the first victim.
He also jailed him for three years for offences against the second victim with further concurrent sentences, with the three years to run consecutively to the five years and four months, making a total of eight years and four months imprisonment.
Peers was also made subject to the sexual offenders notification requirements for life and must obey restraining orders against his victims for life.
The judge said he hoped the sentences would bring "some closure" to the women and wished them "the best for the future".