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The Independent UK · May 8, 2025

Barry Bennell victim says he hopes last years were as ‘difficult as possible’

The former Crewe Alexandra coach, 69, died at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.

The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2023

Barry Bennell, former coach and serial paedophile, dies in UK prison

The youth football coach was sentenced in 2018 on 50 counts of abusing boys between the years of 1979 and 1991.

Al Jazeera · Sep 18, 2023

Former football manager Dario Gradi stripped of honour

Gradi was suspended from the sport in 2016 following allegations he failed to act on rumours of sexual abuse.

The Independent UK · Aug 22, 2023

Dario Gradi to lose MBE after failing to protect children from sexual abuse

Complaints made by survivors in 2021 led to forfeiture this week after Sheldon Review revealed Gradi’s failure over Barry Bennell

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2023

ECB urged to conduct in-depth review of historic abuse within cricket

Ian Ackley waived anonymity to speak out about the abuse he suffered at the hands of Barry Bennell

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2022

The week in TV: Conversations With Friends; The Time Traveler’s Wife; Floodlights; Elon Musk: Superhero or Supervillain?

Ragged emotions surge through the BBC’s slow-moving new Sally Rooney adaptation; The Time Traveler’s Wife is tone-deaf; and a fine drama tells the real-life story of sexual abuse in football

The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2022

Floodlights review: Harrowing drama on the lives wrecked by the darkest side of football

The abuse of talented player Andy Woodward by paedophile coach Barry Bennell is the focus of this chilling dramatisation of a true story

The Independent UK · May 17, 2022

Floodlights review – this harrowing drama about sexual abuse in football is so, so valuable

The story of Andy Woodward – whose Guardian interview led to the jailing of youth coach Barry Bennell – is terrifically acted, full of dark resonance and breaks the silence and shame around male rape

The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2022

TV tonight: footballer Andy Woodward’s brutal story about abuse

A brutal dramatisation of football coach Barry Bennell’s sexual abuse of teenagers is powerful viewing. Plus: Don’t try this at the home – the finale of Wim Hof’s Freeze the Fear. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2022