It is Dean Radford’s description of what happened in court which makes you wonder where he found the resolve to keep up the fight against the Southampton football coach who abused so many young players like him.
Radford’s February 1989 evidence against Bob Higgins, offered at a time when very few felt able to speak out, saw the paedophile brought to trial in the early 1990s.
Higgins’s barrister then attempted to reduce Radford’s credibility and testimony to shreds, by claiming that his parents’ separation somehow made his evidence invalid. Radford left the courtroom feeling like he was the criminal.