SCHEME BOOST Ex-Celtic coach avoids jail after sex assault

ASHAMED football coach convicted of sexually assaulting a woman while her boyfriend was having a shower escaped a jail sentence. on Friday. Derek Livingston, 25, who was found guilty of groping the 21-yearold woman on May 25 last year, walked free from court.

Former Celtic coach Livingston pulled down the body suit she was wearing and repeatedly touched her breasts.

At Glasgow Sheriff Court, Sheriff Ian Miller ordered Livingston to perform 200 hours of unpaid work.

Livingston, of the city’s Pollok, was also put on the sex offenders’ register for 12 months.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons told the trial: “He exposed both my breasts and my entire breast was on show.

“He took his hand and his finger and played with my left nipple.

“I don’t remember what hand he used but his finger was on my nipple – he rolled it around.”

Earlier the accused and the couple they had watched Celtic’s Scottish Cup final win in the Walkabout bar in Glasgow.

The trio then went to a flat in Glasgow’s West End where Livingston sexually assaulted the woman.

The court heard the woman told prosecutor Amy Hunter that her boyfriend went in for a shower, and Livingston pounced.

She said: “I froze, I closed my eyes and pretended to be sleeping.

“This lasted around 30 seconds or so and it stopped because I moved my body.

“There was a second incident where he lifted my top and did the same as before and this took no longer than one minute.

“The bathroom door opened and then he stopped.”

Livingston later sent a text message to the woman saying: “I shook you to wake you up and your nipple was exposed and I touched it.”

At his trial, Livingston denied sexually assaulting the woman.