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Manchester City will face a High Court trial over damages claims from eight men who were sexually abused by the paedophile coach Barry Bennell.
Bennell’s abuse took place while he is said to have been working for City as a scout and coach of their “feeder teams”, which featured players too young to be signed as schoolboys.
The eight men, who are now in their 40s and 50s, are all claiming damages against the Premier League club for the “very serious psychiatric injuries” they suffered as a result of the abuse.
Bennell is serving a 30-year jail term for multiple offences against 12 boys he coached, some of whom are bringing the High Court action, between 1979 and 1991.
This confuses me...how did Bennell get 30 years but the likes of Torbett etc only get a couple of years (if that)?
Bennell, who is thought not to have received an official salary from City, had two spells within the club’s youth network between 1976 and 1984.
City deny that they are vicariously liable for the abuse committed.