{"id":7001,"date":"2023-09-19T03:04:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/central-figure-in-uk-soccer-child-sex-abuse-scandal-barry-bennell-dies-in-prison-at-age-69\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T03:04:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:34:42","slug":"central-figure-in-uk-soccer-child-sex-abuse-scandal-barry-bennell-dies-in-prison-at-age-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/central-figure-in-uk-soccer-child-sex-abuse-scandal-barry-bennell-dies-in-prison-at-age-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Central figure in UK soccer child sex abuse scandal, Barry Bennell, dies in prison at age 69"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An English coach at the center of a notorious child sex abuse scandal in professional soccer has died in prison, the British government\u2019s justice department said Monday.<\/p>\n

Barry Bennell, who had worked as a scout for Manchester City and a coach at Crewe Alexandra, was serving a 34-year jail term for multiple convictions of offenses committed since the 1970s. He was 69.<\/p>\n

Judges at his trials in England had described Bennell as the “devil incarnate” and “a parent\u2019s worst nightmare.”<\/p>\n

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An English soccer coach convicted in multiple cases of child sex abuse has died in prison at the age of 69.<\/span> (Fox News)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Ministry of Justice said Bennell died Saturday in Littlehey prison and “as with all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will investigate.”<\/p>\n

When Bennell was sentenced most recently in 2020, the court was told he had a detached retina after being attacked in prison and was in remission from cancer.<\/p>\n

Bennell was first jailed in Florida in 1994 for raping a British boy on a soccer tour. He also was sentenced to prison in Britain in 1998, 2015, 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n

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