Club statement regarding Barry Bennell's conviction

[Ric]

Couldn't agree more, my one issue is I also don't think it's acceptable to try to hide behind... everyone seemed to be doing it(not that I'm suggesting you are using that defence).
The club needs to try to do what it can, sadly it seems like it will be too late for some, but City should lead the way with regards to fixing this

No, I'm certainly not using that defence. With regards what the club does now, as you say they can't right past wrongs, but I think they are handling this in the best way possible at the moment.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

I feel for the poor guys who aren't gonna get justice. I fear that now a high profile case with a high profile club has happened, the FA will sweep all the rest of this under the carpet. I hope I'm wrong.
P.s. the BBC want suing. Bennell never worked for Manchester city. Ever.

 

[petrusha]

This is one of the murders, I presume:

http://www.blackkalendar.nl/content.php?key=14554

Ronnie Bennell was Barry's cousin, as Rascal says above: http://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-record/20180216/281904478647606

Served 12 years, came out, got married and hen committed the second murder.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Which C*** was in charge when all this was going on ? Peter ******* Swales! If he knew what was happening ( which some people are saying) then it's unforgivable. OK, it had nothing to do with this organisation what is in power now, but it was still MCFC and we have to try and do what's right for the poor sods who's lives were ruined.

 

[BlueAnorak]

I think you need to be logged in to read that link Petrusha.

 

[lancs blue]

I feel for the poor guys who aren't gonna get justice. I fear that now a high profile case with a high profile club has happened, the FA will sweep all the rest og this under the carpet. I hope I'm wrong.
P.s. the BBC want suing. Bennell never worked for Manchester city. Ever.

The FA can't sweep anything under the carpet now, there are too many police investigations going on into this scandal.

 

[DontLookBackInAnger]

I feel for the poor guys who aren't gonna get justice. I fear that now a high profile case with a high profile club has happened, the FA will sweep all the rest og this under the carpet. I hope I'm wrong.
P.s. the BBC want suing. Bennell never worked for Manchester city. Ever.

This reminds me a little of when I lived in the US my wife had to go to a Workman's Compensation Court and one of the other cases was a cleaner who had fallen and broken her leg in the parking lot of an office block she cleaned(this was her only assignment). She claimed that it was a workplace injury because she was in the company parking lot and she was going in to clean the offices, the agency that she worked for said that because she worked for the agency and not the company she was in the parking lot of, it wasn't. In the end the court(rightly in my view)ruled that while she didn't work directly for the company they took on an assumed level of responsibility, as it not unreasonable for her to assume she would not be placed in danger even though she was an agency worker.
The fact Bennell did not ever work for the club doesn't necessarily absolve them.

 

[petrusha]

I think you need to be logged in to read that link Petrusha.

Doesn't make me log in but maybe it does others. In any case, it's only a short extract from the Daily Record. I'll type it out for anyone who can't read it:

COUSIN WAS A RAPIST AND MURDERER

Bennell's cousin was a notorious sex killer who raped and murdered two women.

Ronnie Bennell hanged himself in his prison cell before he could face trial for his second killing.

Ronnie was 18 when he raped and killed Lynda Stewart in Burnage, Manchester in November 1970.

She was seven months' pregnant and suffered massive head injuries. Ronnie beat her to death with his bare hands and raped her as she lay unconscious.

He was found guilty and given a life sentence in 1971 but spent just 12 years behind bars.

He married in June 1989 but eight months after the wedding, he raped and murdered mum of three Pamela Noone, 42, in Bramhall, near Stockport.

Like the first victim, she was beaten unconscious before being raped.

 

[Wanchope n me Dickov]

As a parent of young kids this is heart breaking. My 10 year old daughter has just come back from camping with school and as a direct consequence of Bennell I have a paranoia that something may have happened to her while she was away.

Gutted this shit goes on.

 

[Hart of the Matter]

I think it is also important to find out what City did in the 90s once he had been convicted in America. If not then this is equally significant and informative of the clubs culture and attitude to safeguarding at the time.