Ex-football coach admits seven child-sex charges

Barry Bennell, the former football coach, has pleaded guilty to seven child-sex offences at Liverpool Crown Court. The ex-crewe Alexandra coach, 63, admitted six offences on the first day of his trial. He had pleaded guilty to another previously.

He is still to face 48 charges, including 35 counts of indecent assault, 11 of buggery and two of attempted buggery, said to have taken place in the Seventies and Eighties.