May 2015 Computer expert groomed schoolboy on Skype An American computer expert who used Skype to abuse a 15-year-old boy over the internet is facing jail. Geoffrey Gex, 51, met the teenager while browsing gay adult websites before striking up an inappropriate online conversation. The IT consultant, who was also chairman of the tenants’ group of the Kings Cross Bemerton Estate, in north London, also encouraged the lad to send him sexually explicit pictures. Gex, who works in the banking sector, then arranged a date over the video chat service Skype where the pair pleasured themselves in front of their webcams, the Old Bailey heard.