A FORMER gymnastics coach and Eton College teacher has been jailed after raping a 14-year-old girl in the 1970s. Jeffrey Quirk, of Reading Road, Stratfield Turgis, Hampshire, was found guilty of four counts of indecent assault and four counts of rape after he abused...
A former teacher who used his position as a football coach to groom and sexually abuse a primary school pupil has been jailed. David Jones, 33, of Southport, invited his victim to join the team he coached, Liverpool Crown Court heard. He denied sexually assaulting the...
A former elite acrobatic gymnast has become the first to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced in the sport. Eloise Jotischky says Andrew Griffiths subjected her to inappropriate weight management techniques and verbal harassment...
A Hampshire football coach has been convicted of sexually abusing three young boys. Alfie Morel was found guilty following a trial of eight offences including attempted rape, sexual communication with a child and sexual assault of a child under 13. Prosecutors said he...
A former police officer and children’s football coach convicted of multiple counts of sexual abuse of children over more than four decades has been sentenced to 29 years in jail. Stephen Henry Walker, 68, was found guilty of 40 charges of sexual assault relating to 15...
A disgraced former Metropolitan Police officer and south London football coach who sexually abused 15 children during 40 years of offending has finally been jailed. Shamed ex cop Stephen Walker, 68, was found guilty of 40 charges of sexual assaults against 15 victims,...
The cases include one coach who was arrested for engaging in sexual communications with a child. In a separate case, another was arrested for voyeurism at a place of work after placing a camera in female toilets. Both incidents occurred in 2019. In a statement, the...
"Significant institutional failings" by the Football Association meant it "did not do enough to keep children safe" - according to the findings of an independent review into historical child sexual abuse in the game. It found the FA was "too slow" to have sufficient...
A FORMER martial arts instructor who was jailed on Thursday for sexually abusing a young boy had already been given 12 years’ worth of jail time for similar offending. Colin Stratton, now 62, was handed a 21 month sentence after he admitted nine counts of indecent...
A former badminton coach who groomed and sexually abused more than a dozen boys has been jailed for 20 years. Timothy Mawer, 52, targeted teenagers he met while coaching in schools and through trainspotting before subjecting them to "vile" sex attacks. One victim...
For many decades, Neil Harris abused his position as a dance and gymnastics teacher to sexually assault and abuse his vulnerable victims. In June 2020 he was jailed for a second time. Some of Harris's victims have told of the impact the childhood attacks have had on...
British Gymnastics has announced an independent inquiry into “shocking and upsetting” allegations of serious physical and emotional abuse made by multiple elite athletes, including fresh claims of fat-shaming by one London 2012 Olympian.Francesca Fox, who competed as...
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