Paedophile football coach Barry Bennell's old club manager encouraged him to take boys home for sleepovers and did not make any background checks on him despite a complaint at a previous club, it has been revealed.
Bennell, a former Crewe Alexandra coach and Manchester City scout, was jailed for 30 years last year after decades spent abusing young boys when he was meant to be coaching them.
Evidence supplied by Dario Gradi, a former manager at Crewe Alexandra and Mr Bennell's colleague for seven years, about the scandal, has now been revealed.
Mr Gradi, in a nine-page statement, says he did not have any suspicions about Mr Bennell's behaviour while he was youth team coach at the club, as reported by The Guardian.
Bennell, (pictured left) a former Crewe Alexandra coach and Manchester City scout, was jailed for 30 years last year after decades spent abusing young boys when he was meant to be coaching them. New evidence from ex-manager Dario Gradi (pictured right) had come to light
He also said that despite Bennell's behaviour leading to a complaint while he was at Manchester City, he was not asked about the issue by Crewe Alexandra and no references or background checks were made prior to his appointment as a coach.
Gradi writes: 'Bennell had a talent for recruiting and keeping good-quality players.
'No references were checked with Manchester City, who I cannot imagine would have been particularly enamoured at the prospect of me poaching one of their sources of youth-team players.'
Gradi, who has been suspended by the Football Association since 2016 pending an investigation, also defended the club's decision to allow boys to stay overnight with coaches- with Bennell taking home £5 per evening in expenses to accomodate them.
He added: 'The simple fact that Bennell had boys staying with him was not out of ordinary for this club,'
'I had (and still have on occasions) boys staying with me and indeed all my coaches have boys staying with them from time to time.
'One has to appreciate the nature of this club. We do not have endless resources and our boys are often brought through the ranks and stay with the club out of personal loyalty.'
Bennell was later sacked in 1992, with Gradi claiming it was for not accepting instructions about a coaching session.
Bennell was found to have targeted 12 victims between 1979 and 1991 in the most recent case that came to court in February last year.
Crewe Alexandra youth team coach Barry Bennell (left), with first team manager Dario Gradi (right)
Bennell had already served three jail terms - one in the United States - since 1995 for similar offences involving 16 separate victims.
During the trial, prosecutor Nicholas Johnson QC described Bennell as a 'devious paedophile' who systematically abused vulnerable pre-pubescent boys.
Complainants told how he had a 'power hold' over them as they dreamed of becoming professional footballers.
Bennell was compared to the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, luring boys to his homes in the Peak District where he had arcade games and exotic pets including a puma and a monkey.
He also abused them on trips away and in his car while on the way to and from football training.
The jury returned guilty verdicts on 43 counts of abuse against 11 boys, involving offences of serious sexual assault and indecent assault.
Jailing him, a judge said: 'To those boys you appeared as a god... in reality you were the devil incarnate. You stole their childhoods and their innocence.'
Bennell will serve at least 15 years behind bars before being eligible for parole.
It is likely the 65-year-old, who previously had cancer, will die in jail.
Decades of abuse before he was finally brought to justice: Timeline of the Barry Bennell case
Early 1970s: Starts his coaching career aged about 18 at renowned London-based junior club Senrab FC, Bennell told police.
Mid to late 1970s: Coaches at Butlin's holiday camp in Pwllheli, North Wales, and also begins working with Manchester youth team Whitehill FC, he also tells detectives.
November 1979 to July 1981: Employed as a resident social worker at the now closed Taxal Edge children's home in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire.
1982 to 1985: Coaches youth teams in Derbyshire which provided several youth recruits for Manchester City.
Bennell taught boys at holiday camps and summer courses as well as arranging tours
1985 to 1992: Bennell is employed by or on behalf of Crewe Alexandra apart from a spell coaching in Georgia, United States, in 1989 and 1990.
1990: Marries Linda Woodward, sister of one of his abuse victims, Andy Woodward. The couple go on to have two children.
1992 to 1994: Bennell is employed by or on behalf of Stoke City.
1994: He is arrested while on a 10-week tour of the United States when coaching a Staffordshire youth team.
1995: He is convicted in Florida of four counts of indecent assault on a young boy and sentenced to four years in jail. Spends time in custody prior to his conviction. His victim was also abused by Bennell in Britain, which leads to a domestic investigation.
Bennell appearing before a US court in Jacksonville, Florida in 1995
January 1997: Bennell is featured in the Channel 4 documentary series Dispatches. Former youth player Ian Ackley waives his anonymity and tells the Soccer's Foul Play programme he was sexually abused by Bennell.
September 1997: US authorities deport Bennell to the UK at the conclusion of his sentence and on his arrival he is charged with sexual offences relating to a number of complainants.
June 1998: He pleads guilty at Chester Crown Court on the first day of his scheduled trial to 23 counts of sexual abuse relating to 15 complainants, aged from nine to 14, between 1978 and 1992. Victims include Mr Ackley and Mr Woodward. Twenty-two alleged offences are left to lie on file. He is sentenced to nine years in prison.
May 2015: Bennell pleads guilty at the same court on the first day of his scheduled trial to sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy in 1980. He is jailed for two years. His victim did not come forward in 1997 because of the effect he said it would have on his mother. When she died in 2013 he contacted police. The court hears he was abused at Bennell's living quarters at Taxal Edge while staying with him as he took part in coaching sessions in Macclesfield.
November 2016: Mr Woodward waives his anonymity to give emotional, powerful interviews to the Guardian and BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. It leads to a number of complainants against Bennell contacting police and a fresh investigation begins.
January 2018: Bennell goes on trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of 48 historical child sex offences against 11 complainants between 1979 and 1990.
February 2018: Bennell is found guilty of 43 counts of child sexual abuse against 11 victims.
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