The youth soccer coach was sentenced in 2018 on 50 counts of abusing boys between the years of 1979 and 1991.
Former soccer coach Barry Bennell has died in jail, aged 69, in the UK whereas serving a 34-year sentence for sexual offences, the Ministry of Justice mentioned.
A spokesperson for the jail mentioned on Monday that: “Prisoner Barry Bennell died at HMP Littlehey on 16 September 2023. As with all deaths in custody, the prisons and probation ombudsman will examine.”
The serial paedophile, who was affected by most cancers, was sentenced in 2018 on 50 counts of abusing boys he coached between the years of 1979 and 1991.
He was convicted of his fifth jail time period in 2020 and obtained a further 4 years after pleading responsible to 9 sexual offences, together with six counts of indecent assault towards two boys.
Police mentioned on the time that his attainable victims might quantity greater than 100.
Bennell was first jailed in Florida in 1994 for raping a British boy on a soccer tour. He additionally was sentenced to jail within the UK in 1998, 2015, 2018 and 2020.
Choose Clement Goldstone, who was presiding over the case in 2020, mentioned as he learn out the prolonged sentence: “You had been the satan incarnate. You stole their childhoods and their innocence to fulfill your individual perversion.”
“Your behaviour in direction of these boys in grooming and seducing them earlier than subjecting them to, in some circumstances, essentially the most critical, degrading and humiliating abuse was sheer evil.”
Bennell’s case despatched ripples via the British footballing world as wider allegations of sexual abuse of sexual and bodily abuse of boys at soccer golf equipment throughout Britain within the Seventies and 80s.
Former Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur participant Paul Stewart, who additionally performed for the nationwide England group, described how he was abused as a youngster through the trial.
His account got here after former Crewe participant Andy Woodward went public with allegations towards Bennell.