A FORMER Welsh Ambulance Service boss met a 15-year-old boy for sex after grooming him on Facebook, a court heard.
Basildon Crown Court heard Anton van Dellen drove the boy to a secluded spot, locked the doors of his car and encouraged him to carry out a sex act after the pair flirted on the social networking site.
Van Dellen, a qualified medical doctor and barrister, denies meeting a child aged under 16 after sexual grooming between May and June last year.
The 41-year-old, of Stamford Brook Avenue, Hammersmith, west London, served for two months as interim chief executive of the Welsh Ambulance Service until August 2006.
He was previously deputy chief executive of Staffordshire Ambulance Service and was studying at the University of Cambridge at the time of the alleged offence.
Mr Shroff told jurors that van Dellen had befriended the boy on Facebook about a week before the meeting.
Proceeding.
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