A Derby chef accused of online grooming of a 13-year-old boy and meeting him for sexual activity collapsed in the dock with a seizure today.
An ambulance was called for Brendan Conway, 28, of Border Crescent, when he collapsed at Gloucester Crown Court this morning.
It happened shortly before he was due to enter pleas.
Judge Jamie Tabor QC at Gloucester Crown Court said Conway was too ill to enter his pleas today but the indictment would be put to him at the next hearing when he is sentenced on February 12 after a pre-sentence report has been prepared.
Conway made two appearances in the dock this morning. After the first, he was sent back to his cell for his lawyer to speak to him about his pleas to the charges.
When he returned to the dock just before lunchtime he doubled up, holding his stomach and his face was contorted.
His barrister, Emma Scott, said: "He suffers from some form of seizures and he is obviously in a great deal of pain."
As the hearing came to a close, custody officers in the dock started to help Conway back towards the steps leading down to the cells but he then collapsed to the floor, shaking uncontrollably, and lay there for several minutes.
When he had recovered enough to be taken to the cells he was helped down the stairs by two custody officers and a short time later ambulance paramedic arrived to examine him.
Conway was remanded in custody.
