A FORMER Llangollen children’s home supervisor charged with sexual offences against 11 boys in his care has been branded an "arrogant, unrepentant paedophile".

The comment was made by prosecutor Daniel Moore during his summing up of the case at Mold Crown Court.

Bryan Davies, 71, now of West Redhill, Surrey, denies 38 charges in total, including allegations of indecent assault and serious sexual assaults on boys in the 1970s as well as charges of making indecent images of children and inciting children to indulge in sexual acts over the internet.

Twenty-nine of the offences are alleged to have happened at Ystrad Hall and an annex named Eirianfa at Llangollen, which was run by a private organisation named Care Concern.

Davies was later charged with further offences relating to the making indecent photographs of children between 2007 and 2013 and inciting children over the Internet to indulge in sexual acts dating back to 2011 and 2012.

Some of the images depicted adults involved in penetrative acts with children – and he had also incited young boys over Skype to indulge in sexual acts, it was alleged.

Davies, who at the time in the 1970s lived at Stryd Isa in Penycae, Wrexham, had appeared at Llangollen Magistrates Court in September 1978 where he admitted three charges of indecent assault against two residents of the care home.

In 2014 he had failed to answer bail and fled the country before eventually being tracked down to the island of Gozo near Malta.

As he began summing up the case against Davies, Mr Moore invited the jury to consider "who is the real Bryan Davies?"

"The real Bryan Davies fled to Malta where he hid for three years and four months," said Mr Moore.

"The real Bryan Davies has tried to hide himself in front of you, but if you look carefully you can see him for what he is: an unrepentant sexual abuser.

"The Skype chats demonstrate who he really is - he always asks the age of the boys he is talking to.

"Why ask if he was not interested?

"The Skype chats show he is still interested in young boys, only now he is an older man and there is a lot less physical activity.

"He is an arrogant, unrepentant paedophile."

Ystrad Hall was investigated as part of the larger overall investigation into child abuse in North Wales as part of the Waterhouse Inquiry.

Allegations were made by a number of former pupils there that they had suffered physical and sexual abuse by more than one of the staff members at the school which was established as a school for handicapped pupils in the socially maladjusted category.

Mr Moore told the jury that social workers only visited the school every six months: "It left boys there even more vulnerable," he said.

"The abuse going on there went undetected and all three of the top men there were paedophiles.

"What did they talk about when they met up in the pub?

"The weather? Or little boys?"

The case continues.