Gavin Boa Paisley Sex Offender Paramedic
Gavin Boa Paisley Sex Offender Paramedic

Gavin Boa, the Paisley Sex Offender Paramedic, is alleged to have sent one woman up to 30 lewd messages a day and demanded to see her breasts before allowing them to leave a call-out to a sick patient.

Two women claim they were bombarded with sexual messages and harassed by a senior colleague in the Scottish Ambulance Service but were too afraid to complain.

At a trial at Paisley Sheriff Court a senior male paramedic said the service had a culture of “ sexual banter”, but described Gavin Boa as one of the “best young paramedics” he had worked with.

Gavin Boa, 31, is charged with five counts of sexual offending including indecent communications, exposure and sexual coercion involving two trainee ambulance technicians.

From behind a screen, the women told how they were subjected to vile abuse by Gavin Boa, who was in charge of grading their work to allow them to qualify when the incidents are said to have occurred between May and December 2023.

During one stop at the Royal Alexandra Hospital one woman said Gavin Boa had gone into the back of the ambulance. She said: “I heard him calling to me.

He was lying on the trolley and asked me to come and ‘sit on him’. He kept saying to come through, he said he had a ‘h*n’ and wanted me to sit on him. He did it several times and thought it was funny.”

One woman said she was sent graphic pornography the first time they worked together and despite repeatedly telling Gavin Boa not to send her sexual content he messaged dozens of times a day, made sexual comments and sent graphic images.

She said he sent a video in which he claimed he was having sex and another of his private parts while she was on holiday with her husband and son.

She said the behaviour escalated until December 3, 2023, when Gavin Boa asked her for sex twice during a 12-hour shift and said he was “out of control”. Later, Gavin Boa demanded “show me your t**s” before they were allowed to leave a call-out to another patient, she claimed.

She said: “He asked me to touch him in his groin area and said ‘Show me your t**s’. I felt trapped and humiliated. I lifted my t-shirt up. “He wouldn’t move the ambulance until I did. I felt completely ashamed.”

When they returned to the depot, she said he approached her in the TV room.

She said: “Gavin asked me to stroke him”. She claimed he then exposed himself and performed a sex act, and added: “I froze and felt sick.”

Asked by Gavin Boa’s solicitor Anna Mackay if she had instigated the sexual communication and had “made up” the claim about the TV room incident, she said: “No. I didn’t consent. I have to go into that room and relive it and it’s very upsetting. I would never make something like that up.”

The second woman said Gavin Boa had sent her similar pornographic videos and memes, and made sexual remarks about her and another colleague.

She said: “He would make lots of innuendos. It made me really uncomfortable but I didn’t want to ostracise myself. I was new to the ambulance service.

In usual Scottish Justice Fashion, in May, Gavin Boa was found guilty of five sex offences after a trial at Paisley Sheriff Court but given no prison time. And, last week he was ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work, banned from contacting his two victims for a period of 12 months and also added to the sex offenders register for two years.


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