A RAPE trial jury has this morning retired to consider its verdicts. The prosecution say David Edgerton, 22, is a serial sex offender with a propensity for committing violent sexual offences. The former Deeside man denies rape, attempted rape and the attempted abduction of a child. Yesterday (Tuesday) the jury at Mold Crown Court was told he would not be giving evidence in his own defence. Edgerton, formerly of Howard Street, Connah’s Quay, is alleged to have attempted to rape a woman aged 20 in her home in Connah’s Quay, back in 2009. He told police the complainant identified the wrong man and it was not him. The defendant is alleged to have raped a woman in her 40s in Warrington last August but he told police in interview they had sex with consent. Also last August he is alleged to have tried to abduct a schoolgirl from behind the community centre at Leeswood near Mold. Edgerton told police it was not him and denies all charges. The jury has been told that Edgerton admits that later the same day he abducted another schoolgirl in Leeswood and raped her in nearby woods. Prosecuting barrister John Philpotts said the defendant had a propensity for committing violent sexual offences. John Hedgecoe, defending, said the young woman who said Edgerton had tried to rape her could not be sure that it was him, and he told the jury they could not be sure. There were no finger prints of forensic evidence to link him to the crime and her phone had not even been examined. No prosecution had been brought at the time of that offence in 2009. He said that there were a number of inconsistencies in the evidence given by the Warrington woman and he suggested that the jury could not reply on it. Mr Hedgecoe said that while the schoolgirl in Leeswood had picked out his client at an identification procedure, she could have picked him out as a man she had clearly seen in a local shop earlier, he claimed. Proceeding. | 
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