Police responded to a “fear for welfare incident” at an address at Stevenage on Friday night.
Paedophile football coach Barry Bennell, the man at the centre of the child sex abuse scandal that has come to light this month, has been taken to hospital after he was found unconscious at an address in Stevenage on Friday night.
According to The Guardian, police responded to a “fear for welfare incident” after Bennell was found unconscious on Friday night. He was subsequently taken to hospital by ambulance.
Thames Valley Police issued a statement which read: “Police officers attended an address in Knebworth Park, Stevenage just before 11pm on Friday, November 25 in connection with a fear for welfare incident.
“A 62-year-old man was located and was taken to hospital in order to receive medical treatment, where he remains. At this stage of enquiries, it would be inappropriate to comment further.”
The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, meanwhile, said: “We received a call on Friday at 10.50pm to reports of an unconscious man on Knebworth Park in Stevenage to which we sent an ambulance crew to. The crew arrived within eight minutes to treat the man… before taking him to Lister Hospital for further care.”
Earlier this month, former Crewe Alexandra player Andy Woodward told The Guardian (waiving his anonymity to do so) about the abuse he suffered at the hands of Bennell in the 1980s.
Prompted by Bennell’s revelations, a number of other footballers followed suit and told their story about being abused by Bennell, who was sentenced to four years in prison for raping a British boy on a football tour of Florida in 1994 and a nine-year sentence in 1998 for 23 offences against six boys in England.
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