Gary Speed was a professional footballer, who also got to manage the Wales football team. Something went wrong, please try again later. Suddenly, it was a national scandal affecting players in clubs all over Britain. He says: 'I saw Gary come and go in Barry's life If you ask me, I would tell you that Gary will have suffered abuse at the hands of Barry.'. Former Wales manager and captain Gary Speed told police that he was not abused by disgraced football coach Barry Bennell, his family has said. And when all of that built into an unbearable weight, it is understandable that suicide even for a brief moment may have seemed the only way out. The kids would all follow him. View Barry Bethell's record in Imlay City, MI including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. A witness who gave evidence in Bennell's trial, who cannot be named, told Liverpool Crown Court that he knew of four people - including Mr Speed - who had worked with Bennell who then went on to take their own lives. See full bio More at IMDbPro Contact Info: View agent, publicist, legal on IMDbPro Biography Awards Photo Gallery Filmography (by Job) Trailers and Videos Known For What a Crazy World Dave, The Boys (1963) Anthony Hughes also told the Sunday Mirror that Bennell abused him on a sofa while making him watch hardcore porn movies. Gary Speed 'one of four men coached by Barry Bennell who went on to take their own lives' Speed was found dead by his wife at their home address on November 27 2011. They added: "The Speed family have been assured that the police investigation at the time was exceptionally thorough and there is no legitimate reason to link Mr Bennell to Mr Speed.". Gary Speed was one of four men coached by Barry Bennell who went on to take their own lives, a court has heard. During his trial, a witness said Mr Speed was one of four men linked to Bennell as young footballers who had gone on to take their own lives. He was found hanged at his home near Chester in November of the same year, aged 42. Who was Gary Speed? Gary Speed was one of the most popular and inspiration footballers before his tragic, and untimely death in 2011. He said he is involved in an ongoing civil case against Manchester City. Wales pay tribute to Gary Speed but suffer 1-0 defeat to Costa Rica. 'For me killing somebody's what you've done to them because their life's never the same.'. Presenter Barry Bethell had met children while dressed as Santa Claus three months before he was arrested for child sex and pornography offences, it has been revealed. The evidence suggests yes says DEBORAH DAVIES, who investigated the paedophile coach 20 years ago. [4] He was then imprisoned nine years in England in 1998 for abusing six young people charges of sexual assault. However, the court heard that there was no evidence to link their deaths to Bennell. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. 'The only confrontation we ever had was over Barry Bennell,' said Fleet. At Manchester City, where Bennell was an unofficial scout from 1982 to 1985, rumours were apparently rife about his behaviour. F ormer Wales manager Gary Speed was one of four men who went on to kill themselves after being coached by Barry Bennell, a court has heard. Our findings, from several sources including a tape broadcast for the first time suggest differently. And it emerged a further 86 complaints were now being probed by cops. He has been convicted of more than 40 sex offences, Ex-football coach Barry Bennell guilty of vile child sex crimes, Gary Speed tragically killed himself in 2011, found yesterday found guilty of seven more child sex abuse charges, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Speed himself denied it on two occasions to police when Bennell was being investigated in the late Nineties. Others talk of the overwhelming sense of guilt they'd felt as they watched Bennell groom younger boys to replace them and not spoken out; guilt for their fathers who'd delivered them for coaching to the door of a paedophile every weekend, guilt that they'd never been able to tell their partners the source of their nightmares. Dywedodd y dioddefwr wrth reithgor fod Gary Speed a thri dyn arall - un arall o Gymru - oedd wedi cael eu hyfforddi gan Barry Bennell wedi mynd ymlaen i ladd eu hunain. An inquest into Speed's death later on found no . Barry would abuse one of us then turn over and then abuse the other,said the victim. A victim of paedophile football coach Barry Bennell has revealed he is '99.9 per cent certain' former Wales boss Gary Speed suffered the same abuse as he did. Bennell's trial heard last month that Gary was one of four men who committed suicide after being coached by him. Giving evidence at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday, a victim of the former youth team football coach said he tried to contact Speed's parents after the Wales manager hanged himself in 2011, aged 42. The latest convictions represented the fourth time he has been convicted of serious sexual offending, including child rape, following cases in Florida and Chester in 1994, 1998 and 2015. Steven Prince died from a drug overdose in 1991, aged 20. A new documentary last right revealed one victim's account, which claims he was in the same bed as Gary Speed while the paedophile coach abused him. The ex-Wales manager, who took his own life in 2011, was coached by Bennell as a youth player and reportedly considered one of the convicted paedophile's 'protgs'. When I ask him if he's certain that means Gary was being abused he says '100 per cent, well 99.9 per cent'. In 1981 he was 11 and a huge Manchester United fan. View our online Press Pack. Speaking about contacting other alleged victims of Bennell, the victim said: "When people are breaking down on the phone, on the verge of suicide, when you hear of people who have taken their own lives". I am positive, Gary would have said. Presented by Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative) Government Bill - Northern Ireland Office. The same complainant also named Mike Grimsley, formerly a youth-team coach at Manchester City, as someone he suspected had known that Bennell was abusing him during a four-year ordeal in the 1980s. His mother, Margaret, said she holds not only Bennell, but these people in the clubsresponsible. What happened in the years after that photograph was taken gives it an almost unbearable poignancy. Football coach Barry Bennell denies 48 offences of child sexual abuse, Denies child abuse: former coach Barry Bennell, Barry Bennell standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court, You must be at least 18 years old to create an account, Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number, I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from Evening Standard. Many of Bennell's victims tell me they hope he dies in jail and for them, that will be justice. Four people from teams I have played with, with Bennell, have taken their own lives, he said. Gary never talked about it but there were some witnessed . Gary Speed stayed over at paedophile football coach Barry Bennell's home but was 'too clever' to be a victim of abuse, his dad has suggested. THE personality and radio DJ Barry Bethell had been . On February 18, 2006, Mark, 36, who had a brief career as a youth player with Burnley, hanged himself. In total, he has pleaded guilty to seven charges involving three boys but denied 48 counts of sexual offences against 11 alleged victims, from 1979 to 1991. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-TALK. Gary Speed was a very popular player with Leeds UTD when I was in my teens and I would go to watch the team play with my family. 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As well as the 43 charges he was convicted of, Bennell admitted seven more relating to a 12th victim at the start of his Liverpool Crown Court trial. Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. A man who Bennell previously admitted abusing told. 'It straddles three decades and he's been involved in football all that time. Former Wales manager Gary Speed was one of four men who went on to take their own lives after being coached by Barry Bennell, a court has heard. The father-of-two, who was a youth team player at Manchester City before going on to play for Leeds, Everton, Newcastle and Bolton, took charge of the Wales side in February 2011. ", He added: "Whether they have taken their lives due to Barry solely I don't know but all I know is how it's had an impact on me and how it could impact on other people.". 'I think Ken thought football was a man's game where it couldn't happen. 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