Monday, 28 November 2016

Paedophile football coach Barry Bennell in hospital after being found unconscious

• Bennell in hospital in Hertfordshire after ‘fear for welfare incident’
• Bennell sexually abused young players, including at Crewe

The paedophile football coach Barry Bennell has been taken to hospital after police responded to a “fear for welfare incident” at an address in Stevenage on Friday night, where he was found unconscious.

Bennell, a youth coach who worked for Crewe, Manchester City, Stoke and several junior teams in north-west England and the Midlands, was given a four-year sentence for raping a British boy on a football tour of Florida in 1994 and then a nine-year sentence in 1998 for 23 offences against six boys in England.

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