The former Crewe Alexandra coach, 69, died at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.
A victim of serial paedophile Barry Bennell said he hopes the former coach’s last 10 years were as “difficult as possible”.
The Offside Trust, set up by survivors of child sexual abuse in sport, including some ex-footballers abused by Bennell, said it was aware of news of his death. Bennell, also known as Richard Jones, was jailed for 30 years in 2018 after being convicted of 50 child sexual offences against 12 boys. When Bennell was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court in 2018, Recorder of Liverpool Judge Clement Goldstone QC said he “may well die in prison”.Bennell, a former Manchester City scout, abused boys he coached in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.He was first jailed in Florida in 1994 for raping a British boy on a football tour in America, before going on to face prison sentences in Britain in 1998, 2015, 2018 and 2020.
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