Central figure in UK soccer child sex abuse scandal, Barry (*69*), dies in prison at age 69
An English coach at the middle of a notorious child sex abuse scandal in skilled soccer has died in prison, the British authorities’s justice division mentioned Monday.
Barry (*69*), who had labored as a scout for Manchester City and a coach at Crewe Alexandra, was serving a 34-year jail time period for multiple convictions of offenses dedicated for the reason that Nineteen Seventies. He was 69.
Judges at his trials in England had described (*69*) because the “devil incarnate” and “a parent’s worst nightmare.”
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An English soccer coach convicted in a number of circumstances of child sex abuse has died in prison at the age of 69. (Fox News)
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The Ministry of Justice mentioned (*69*) died Saturday in Littlehey prison and “as with all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will investigate.”
When (*69*) was sentenced most just lately in 2020, the court docket was informed he had a indifferent retina after being attacked in prison and was in remission from most cancers.
(*69*) was first jailed in Florida in 1994 for raping a British boy on a soccer tour. He additionally was sentenced to prison in Britain in 1998, 2015, 2018 and 2020.