Gary Speed 'one of four players coached by Bennell to have killed themselves'

Former Wales manager hanged himself years after playing in team coached by Barry Bennell, court hears

Gary Speed was one of four players from Barry Bennell’s junior football teams who killed himself in later life after being coached by the man now charged with multiple sex offences against young footballers, the jury at Bennell’s trial was told.

Speed, the former Wales manager, hanged himself in November 2011, aged 42. One of Bennell’s victims whom he admitted abusing in 1998 told the court that he knew other boys from the same teams who had been left destitute, suicidal and addicted to drugs or alcohol.

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