THE alleged victim of a sex trafficking gang insisted she was able to identify a man described as “Mr Potato Head” who was alleged to have raped her.

The woman, a teenager at the time of the allegation, was called to an identity parade in 2016 where she picked out the man who was said to have abused her in a room in the A55 Travel Lodge near Halkyn five years previously.

Barrister Phil Tully asked the woman if she was clear about picking out John McGrath from the description she had given to police.

She claimed she had been raped by a man “in his 20s with an enormous potato-shaped head who was chubby and had thin hair”.

She replied: “A face doesn’t change that much in five years.

"I had no reason to lie. They abused me and I want justice.

“It is impossible that I made a mistake identifying him.”

But Mr Tully asked: “Was the reason you didn’t provide John McGrath’s name to the police during your interview because you didn’t know him and you have never met him?”

McGrath is one of four members of the Wrexham-based traveller-community who are alleged to have taken advantage sexually of two girls in care.

They were said to have plied them with alcohol and taken them to hotel rooms where they and other men abused them more than six years ago.

The second victim said she thought the men gave the girls “false names” as they were both said they were called “Johnny” when they picked them up in a white transit van near to their care home.

In a video interview played at Mold Crown Court, she said that she had to lie down at the Travel Lodge room because she was so drunk and that was when one of the men had sex with her.

“I couldn’t move, but I said no,” she said. “They were grown men and we were children. It was disgusting really.”

McGrath, 27, of Bryn Hedd, Southsea, Wrexham, denies raping a girl aged under 16.

Co-defendant Todd Wickens, 29, of Homestead Lane, Wrexham, denies two charges of raping a girl aged under 16 and one charge of trafficking a female for sexual exploitation.

John Anthony Delaney, 33, of Ruthin Road Caravan Park, Wrexham, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of raping a girl under 16, four counts of trafficking women within the UK for sexual exploitation, sexual assault and that he arranged the commission of a child sex offence.

John James Purcell, 31, of Crescent Road in Ellesmere Port, has denied three charges of rape, four charges of trafficking and one of arranging a child sex offence.

All the offences are alleged to have taken place between December 2011 and April 2012.

The case continues.