A COUPLE caught having sex in a shopping arcade had tried their best to hide what they were doing, a court was told.

A witness was “shocked and horrified” when she viewed CCTV and saw the couple having sex close to a road and passers-by.

David Danny Nash, 23, of no fixed abode but from Wrexham, admitted outraging public decency and other offences and received a 26 week prison sentence, suspended for a year.

He was sent on a probation service programme to try to help him sort out his chaotic lifestyle after North East Wales Magistrates Court heard he spent £10 a day on heroin.

A warrant was issued for the arrest of co-defendant Tracy Ann Myers, 34, of Lilac Way in Wrexham, who failed to attend to enter a plea to the charge of outraging public decency and other offences.

Prosecutor Rhian Jackson told the Mold court Nash was on bail for stealing chocolates in Chester when he was seen engaged in numerous and various sexual acts which included intercourse in public at Central Arcade in Wrexham on August 28.

A businesswoman monitored the CCTV and saw a man and a woman having sex.

“She was shocked and horrified by what she saw taking place a few feet from a road and passing members of the public,” Mrs Jackson said.

The CCTV footage was handed to police and the defendants were identified and arrested.

It showed them having intercourse, and indulging in other sex acts.

When arrested Nash admitted his behaviour.

She said Nash was a convicted sex offender who had registered himself as being of no fixed abode.

He should have reported weekly to the police station but had failed to do so.

When he was arrested he was found to have heroin hidden within his body.

Probation officer Rachel Woodcock said Nash had nowhere to live at the moment.

He displayed ongoing fondness for his co-defendant and told how they were “trying their best to conceal their lewd behaviour”.

Nash understood the impact of his behaviour on others but Miss Woodcock said he continued to value his own interests over the harm he would cause to others who were unfortunate witness to the behaviour.

His life was “spiralling out of control”, he used heroin and his association with like-minded peers were not assisting him.

The breach of the sex register occurred when he woke up and realised he should have attended the police station that day.

Solicitor Christie Ankers-Phillips, defending, said her client was “an extremely vulnerable individual” and she suggested a suspended prison sentence to help him with his chaotic life-style.

District judge Gwyn Jones said he had to deal with a number of offences included outraging public decency – an offence which was “unpleasant and offensive to members of the public – failing to comply with the sex register requirements, possessing heroin and thefts.

“I understand you have issues in your life which add to your vulnerability,” he told Nash.

He added Nash was not unintelligent and should try to ensure that he complied with the order.

He was being given an opportunity and if he breached it then he would end up in prison, the judge warned.