Manchester City cannot be held responsible for Barry Bennell abuse, court rules

High court judge makes ruling over abuse suffered by eight schoolboy footballers more than 30 years ago

Manchester City cannot be held responsible for the abuse suffered by eight men at the hands of the paedophile Barry Bennell more than 30 years ago, a high court judge has ruled.

The claimants, now in their 40s and 50s, say Bennell, now 68, abused them when they were playing schoolboy football for teams he coached in north-west England between 1979 and 1985.

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