The former head of children’s homes in North Wales sexually abused a child in the back of a Rolls Royce and then assaulted the boy in a hotel, a court heard.

A man in his 50s claimed he was sexually abused by the businessman, who is on trial accused of assaulting 20 children at various homes in and around the Wrexham area between 1969 and 1991.

The alleged victim, now 52, said he was placed in care at the age of 11.

When he was 14 he was sexually abused “in a Roller” and then abused at a hotel, he alleged.

It was Christmas Eve and the boys from the Bryn Alyn Children’s Home were meant to put on a show for local pensioners said the man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.

But that afternoon he went shopping with two other boys and became drunk.

He claimed Allen grabbed hold of him and put him in the back of the car.

There was an unknown man present in the car as they drove back to Bryn Alyn, he told in his police interview, a recording of which was played as his evidence in chief at Mold Crown Court on Monday.

He claimed that he was given more alcohol and then sexually abused in the car by Allen or the unknown man.

The man also alleged he was abused outside the car, which caused him to vomit.

In his evidence he said he was then taken to a hotel where he came around and was lying on a bed being abused by Allen.

He left the home some time later. “I pretty much cried my way out of there,” he said.

When playing football he said Allen would come into the changing rooms and added: He was always looking at me.

“When I was getting changed he would be there.”

The man said he had told no one what had happened because he had tried to disclose abuse by a social worker previously and had not been believed.

He ran away from Bryn Alyn after he had was abused, he said.

“I had to just get away from the place,” he explained.

The witness told how he had “suffered in silence” before later confiding in his brother what had happened.

His brother encouraged him to contact police when it was announced that a fresh police investigation was being launched into historic abuse at children’s homes in North Wales.

The defendant denies a charge of an illegal sex act against the alleged victim.

Allen, 73, of Foxglove Avenue, Needham Market, near Ipswich, denies a total of 40 charges of indecent assault and other sexual offences against 19 boys and one girl between 1968 and 1991.

He ran the Bryn Alyn Community which housed children in various homes including Bryn Alyn, Bryn Tirion and Pentre Saeson near Wrexham.

The trial continues.