Just let them die a slow painful death after been buggered and beaten 24/7 by their cell mates. Death penalty is too humane for these nonce ****s. Or maybe a good old stoning or crusifixtion.
The net is closing. A former Crewe academy player has made allegations against Dario Gradi He claims as a 14-year-old, Gradi showed him a pornographic movie at his home He also alleges that Gradi invited him on a skiing holiday but his parents declined The ex-player wants to protect his identity but has approached the FA about it The person, who is still working in English football, is set to speak to the police
Just a year. Disgraceful. Unrepentant paedophile Steven Bayes left court in the back of a prison van after being jailed for a year. The disgraced former city councillor and NHS nurse, who had also served as Humberside Police Authority chairman, was convicted by a jury of two offences of making indecent photographs of children, and one of having "extreme" images, after a Hull Crown Court trial in February. Bayes, 56 - who called himself "Lord of Darkness" on Twitter - had denied any wrongdoing and tried to lay the blame for the material found on his computers on a "vulnerable" young adult, Recorder Richard Woolfall told him when sentencing him on Friday. His barrister, Richard Thompson, conceded the offences crossed the custody threshold, but asked on Bayes's behalf for the sentence to be suspended. There were still things to be said in his favour; he had no previous convictions, had devoted much of his life to public service, and was able to provide positive character references from friends and colleagues who continued to stand by him. please log in to view this image JAILED: Steven Bayes pictured arriving at Hull Crown Court for sentencing (Image: Jerome Ellerby) Bayes still in denial But his chances of walking free from court evaporated when it emerged Bayes was still refusing to accept his guilt in his pre-sentence interview with the probation service. The judge called that "particularly worrying", and contrasted it with defendants in similar positions, who were "contrite" and "cooperative". After he was jailed, Bayes's former political boss in the city and a leading children's charity both had the harshest of words for him. Council leader 'condemns' ex-colleague City council leader Stephen Brady said in a statement: "As a parent, grandparent and someone whose political life has been focused on supporting the people of our city, I am appalled at these offences which fuel the abuse and victimisation of young people. "I condemn Steven Bayes for the actions which resulted in his conviction and sentencing today." An NSPCC spokeswoman said: "Bayes had been elected into a position of power and trust by the public and today’s sentence reflects his betrayal of that faith shown in him. "By downloading this material he has fuelled a vile trade in indecent images. Each portrays a crime scene and every time an image is shared online the knowledge that it could be repeatedly viewed, and in some cases may never be removed, causes on-going trauma that a survivor of child abuse has to live with." The indecent images included photographs and movies of child abuse at category A - the worst kind - and of boys as young as seven performing sex acts with adults and each other. The extreme images featured men having sex with horses and dogs. Child victim 'cried in pain' please log in to view this image The moment a "scuffle" broke out between "friends" of Steven Bayes and TV camera crews Claire Holmes, prosecuting, said one of the videos showed a child in "discernable pain or distress", who was "crying in pain" and said "no" as he began being seriously sexually abused by a man. The judge told Bayes he "found pleasure in the sexual abuse of children". The day began badly for Bayes, with police having to intervene when two men describing themselves as his "friends" clashed with TV crews outside court. Bayes, of Prospect Street, city centre, was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for ten years and must register as a sex offender for the same period. Detective Inspector Kevin Foster said after the hearing: "We take these offences extremely seriously and we hope that this sentence today, particularly given to an individual in Bayes’ position of authority and trust, will send a firm and robust message that we will investigate such crimes thoroughly. "Offenders who commit these types or crime will not go unpunished." Bayes thanked the judge before he was led to the cells to begin his sentence.
However, have a scuffle on the KC car park with some Huddersfield fans and you get two and a half years. Of course the Huddersfield fans who started it walked away without having their collars felt.
Who were those vermin scuffling with the Press and why? What on earth can they be unhappy about? Summat to hide maybe?
Sky News @SkyNews Paedophile football coach Barry Bennell has lost an appeal against his 30-year sentence for multiple child sex offences.
Barry Bennell has been charged with another nine child sex offences, against two boys under the age of 16, with alleged offences in Crewe, Derbyshire and north Wales. He will appear at Chester crown court on June 15th.
England's 1966 World Cup hero Sir Geoff Hurst faces calls to be STRIPPED of his FA roles amid anger at his 'abhorrent' reluctance to be interviewed by inquiry into child sex abuse at Chelsea... with victims insulted he didn't meet investigators please log in to view this image England hero Sir Geoff Hurst's position as an FA ambassador and McDonald's representative is under threat after he was condemned for his reluctance to be formally interviewed by the inquiry team looking into child abuse at Chelsea. Clive Sheldon QC last week published his long-awaited four-year investigation into sexual abuse in football between 1970 to 2005 and pointedly drew attention to the fact that England's World Cup hat-trick hero had declined to be formally interviewed by Chelsea's own inquiry into sexual abuse crimes committed by Eddie Heath, a chief scout sacked by Hurst in 1979, during Hurst's time as Chelsea manager. Both Charles Geekie, who led the Chelsea inquiry, and Sheldon, who investigated abuse across football, have drawn attention to Hurst's failure to meet formally with the inquiry team and pointed to gaps in the evidence as a result. please log in to view this image Sir Geoff Hurst's position as an FA ambassador and McDonald's representative is under threat please log in to view this image England's World Cup hat-trick hero (centre) had declined to be formally interviewed by Chelsea's own inquiry into sexual abuse crimes please log in to view this image Sir Geoff has insisted he had no relevant information and that he spoke to the Geekie inquiry team by phone twice and left a voicemail. But survivors of Heath's abusive regime say they consider it an insult that Hurst wouldn't find the time to meet investigators. Gary Johnson, who was abused by Heath as a schoolboy and who has waived his right to anonymity, said: 'I find it abhorrent that someone in his position and someone people look up to doesn't want to get involved and couldn't find the time to speak formally to an inquiry. 'For someone to be manager and then sack the chief scout, now well known for being a paedophile, I would like to know, and I'm sure all the other victims at Chelsea would like to know, what is the reason you sacked him? 'I don't think he should be an FA McDonald's ambassador. I don't think you can have your cake and eat it. He's got to give his version. It's no skin off his nose. It's an insult to the victims and their families not just at Chelsea but at every club.' please log in to view this image Sir Geoff has insisted that he had no relevant information and that he spoke to the Geekie inquiry team Eamonn Manners, also abused by Heath and who has also waived his right to anonymity to speak out, said: 'I am surprised he didn't cooperate. My view is that anyone who is asked to engage should do so. It's as simple as that.' Chelsea held their own inquiry into Heath's predatory behaviour, led by Geekie QC, who was eager to speak to Sir Geoff because he had sacked Heath as chief scout. Hurst has always maintained that he sacked Heath because he wasn't good at his job but the Geekie inquiry, which reported in 2019, said 'this appeared to be at odds with a number of comments by witnesses that (whatever criticisms there may be of his sexual conduct) Mr Heath was a good and effective scout. The Review Team [the Geekie inquiry team] wished to explore this with Sir Geoff.' Geekie's team wrote to Sir Geoff three times, including once with a covering letter from club chairman Bruce Buck and the final time 'stressing the importance of the issue' and need for an interview. please log in to view this image Hurst has always maintained that he sacked Eddie Heath because he wasn't good at his job Sheldon's report drew attention to a lack of formal cooperation by Hurst. 'The Geekie Review Team was not able to carry out an interview with Geoff Hurst as he did not want to be interviewed,' wrote Sheldon. 'It is noted in the Geekie Report that "there remains an unsatisfactory gap in the evidence that has been made available to the Review". I agree with that statement.' On Saturday, Sir Geoff said: 'Within the first six months of my tenure at Chelsea I sacked Eddie Heath from his position at the club. It was purely a footballing decision as, in my opinion, he wasn't fulfilling his role correctly. 'Whilst I have incredible sympathy for his victims, neither at that time, nor subsequently, did I have any knowledge regarding his abuse of the young players at the club. It came as a complete shock to me at the time of the inquest. 'When it emerged into the public arena, I was in Phoenix, Arizona, and I was interviewed three times, each time explaining that I had no knowledge whatsoever of the situation. In actual fact, right up until the inquest of a few years ago, I knew nothing untoward had ever occurred. To say that I was not interviewed at the time the allegations arose is incorrect. please log in to view this image Clive Sheldon QC's report drew attention to a lack of formal cooperation by Hurst 'I explained the situation, which remains the same today as then. At no time were there rumours from the club, any of the players or the coaching staff regarding Eddie Heath. The revelations came as a complete shock to me. 'To reiterate, I at no time had any knowledge of the situation and therefore have not had anything more substantive to say but I must emphasise I feel incredible sorrow for the victims.' The FA and McDonald's declined to comment.
Well done to Dave merrington one of the few who can hold their head high in all this. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/s...igures-centre-footballs-sex-abuse-report.html
Another good article in the DM. I see Charles Hughes gets a slating. He should do just for his coaching philosophy, full of BS about the POMO, trying to win thrown ins and corners because of the amount of goals scored from them, long balls as they led to throw ins, not dribbling and shooting because according to him most goals came from moves involving 3 passes or less. Terry Dolan was a big adherent of his. Say no more.
Football's darkest secret brought into the light... new BBC documentary reveals shocking failures 2hrs ago please log in to view this image It is Dean Radford’s description of what happened in court which makes you wonder where he found the resolve to keep up the fight against the football coach who abused so many young players like him. Radford’s February 1989 evidence against Bob Higgins, offered at a time when very few felt able to speak out, saw the paedophile brought to trial in the early 1990s. Higgins’s barrister then attempted to reduce Radford’s credibility and testimony to shreds, by claiming that his parents’ separation somehow made his evidence invalid. Radford left the courtroom feeling like he was the criminal. please log in to view this image Dean Radford showed incredible resolve in court to keep up the fight against Bob Higgins please log in to view this image A new three-part BBC documentary shows what those fighting against Higgins faced ‘I didn’t go back to court after I’d testified,’ he says. ‘I just kept ringing the police to find out how the trial was going and whether he’d been convicted. I didn’t get a call back. I tried so many places for support. The Professional Footballers’ Association couldn’t help. And then I found out that he’d been acquitted.’ It was an extraordinary verdict. Five other young players had also testified to Higgins’ crimes - but a decision was taken that six separate trials should be held. When Higgins was found not guilty in the first of them, the other five were dropped. Higgins marched out of court with his wife and another middle-aged woman on each arm, grinning broadly. He would go on to abuse dozens more boys at Peterborough United. A new three-part BBC documentary which begins on Monday on football’s child abuse scandal reveals far more vividly than last week’s 710-page Sheldon report what boys like Radford were up against in Higgins, who held their football dreams in his hands. ‘Football’s Darkest Secret’ reveals cine film footage of the coach’s young players chanting his name on training runs. ‘It was like a cult and he was the Messiah,’ Radford says. ‘We ran around on warm-ups, chanting out his name. And as you ran by you would shout it as loud as you could, because you wanted him to hear your voice above everyone else’s.’ please log in to view this image Victims and their families after Higgins' sentencing for sexually abusing schoolboy footballers Higgins abused in plain sight. His deliberate touching up of boys as they land from jumping exercises was inadvertently captured by local TV crews, who saw nothing in it. He basked in his own profile. The documentary also reveals him posing for photographs in the lounge of his home, his paunch hanging out over a tight T-shirt. It was in that same home that he abused boys like Radford. ‘Love him or loathe him, Bob Higgins is a star-maker,’ declared one local TV reporter for a package broadcast after his acquittal. The notion that the abuse was simply a product of the time is exploded by the fact that another Southampton coach, Dave Merrington, challenged Higgins when he heard the boys talking about it. Merrington ensured Higgins was drummed out of the club and faced trial. ‘Dave’s actions were monumental, in saving so many of us from facing more of the abuse,’ Radford reflects. ‘Yes, those were the 1980s but they weren’t the Dark Ages. It was still possible to see right from wrong like Dave did.’ please log in to view this image The Sheldon report supports claim there were no grounds for concern about Higgins' conduct The Sheldon report has not brought Radford the solace he might have expected because its conclusions about what Southampton and the FA knew are baffling, to say the least. Sheldon supports an FA claim that there were no grounds for concern about Higgins’ conduct with young children until 1995 - long after he had abused Radford. Yet his report documents a meeting between the FA, the Football League and Southampton in February 1989, to discuss concerns about Higgins, who was then running a football academy. The report concludes it cannot prove the concerns were abuse-related. Also in 1989, Crewe manager Dario Gradi wrote to FA director of coaching Charles Hughes, tipping him off about Higgins’ academy and implying it should be shut down. Again, the report concludes there is no proof that suspected abuse was the reason. In 2019, Higgins was found guilty of 46 counts of indecent assault on 24 victims, predominantly Southampton and Peterborough United trainees, between 1971 and 1996. please log in to view this image Dario Gradi wrote to FA director of coaching in 1989 tipping him off about Higgins' academy Radford is campaigning to reform the double jeopardy law so that sexual offenders like Higgins could potentially face retrial for previous abuse allegations. The All-Party Parliamentary Group for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse has formally recommended such a change to the law. As of last night, a change.org petition raised by Radford had garnered over 11,000 names. ‘It’s taken some time to get my head around all the detail of the Sheldon report,’ he reflects. ‘But parts of it trouble me deeply. It goes to every length to give people the benefit of the doubt and see the other side. The crimes were actually going on right in front of their eyes.’ Football’s Darkest Secret begins on Monday at 9pm on BBC One. It will then be available on iPlayer.
I've watched 2 episodes so far, it's a really difficult watch, but it certainly brings to your attention the horrors these young boys had to endure, which has clearly affected their whole lives. It seems inconceivable that many in the game who say they didn't know it was going on, in reality, turned a blind eye to it, as many were producing good players which teams were benefiting from.