A FORMER press officer at Bangor City Football Club is alleged to have sexually abused two young children.

David Daniel Hayes is accused of raping a girl when she was aged eight years to 10 as well as sexually assaulting her.

He is also accused of raping a boy over a period during which he was aged six to nine years.

Prosecuting barrister Sion Ap Mihangel told Mold Crown Court that the allegations emerged when the girl told her mother she had been sexually abused.

She was interviewed by police four times and later the boy also complained about Hayes’ behaviour.

“She (the girl) said that she tried to get away. She said that he threatened her and told her if she didn’t do as she was told to that she would be stripped naked,” said the prosecutor.

The girl’s underwear was forensically examined and the prosecutor said: “Significantly, the findings revealed the presence of semen which matched the DNA profile of the defendant.”

The boy told police that Hayes “used to hit him” and when he had sexually abused him he told him “not to tell anyone”.

Hayes denied the offences entirely when he was interviewed by police and said he could give no explanation as to the forensic evidence.

Hayes, 40, of Bridge Street, Llanrwst, denies 13 child sex offences.

He has entered not guilty pleas to two counts of sexually assaulting a girl aged under 13, six counts of raping a girl under 13, two counts of raping a boy under 13 and three counts of inciting a child under 13 to engage in a sexual act with all the offences alleged to have been committed between August 29, 2012 and April 24, 2015.

The trial continues.