The paedophile former coach Barry Bennell accused some of his victims of ‘Oscar’ performances here yesterday and said some of them were trying to get money out of Manchester City.
Bennell, serving a 34-year sentence for sexual abuse, gave evidence from prison for a case in which eight men are suing City for psychiatric injuries and loss of potential earnings — because they claim Bennell was working for the club when they were abused by him between 1979 and 1985.
City insist that Bennell did not work for them during that period.
Bennell, wearing a red sweatshirt and a facemask, and appearing on video link from HMP Littlehey, Cambridgeshire, repeatedly denied that he had any connection with the club at the time in question.