Latest ✍️ : A Premier League boss has been granted a High Court anonymity order in a civil case against him for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl. https://t.co/nSGuI52AqX
— Hannah Price (@HannahPrice___) May 9, 2024
A leading figure in Premier League football has won a High Court anonymity order to prevent his identity being revealed in a civil case being brought against him for alleged sexual abuse of a teenage girl.
– The person is high-profile and holds a leadership position in a Premier League football club in England
– The offence took place in the 90s
– The court documents (seen by The Athletic) stated he “committed trespass to the claimant’s person (assault and battery) and intentionally inflicted injury“
– The judge ruled that the disclosure of his name is “not in the public interest” and that his identity must be protected (more details on the discriminatory legal loophole in The Athletic, but tl;dr – she was a girl under 16 before the new sexual offences act in 2003, and therefore had to report the incident within one year)
– The Athletic learned that the same man has many other alleged non-recent sexual offences, including rape and sexual abuse of other teenage girls
– The BBC has evidence that 7 out of 20 Premier League clubs have had players or bosses investigated by the police for sexual offences since 2020
– The Football Association (FA) are aware of these allegations and, despite their commitments to ‘safeguarding’, they are all still there, working in proximity to women and young girls
– Twitter’s guess is that it’s the West Ham chairman, billionaire and former pornographer (with a very sketchy history) David Sullivan, as he was spotted walking out of a police station a few months ago (just emphasising here his connection to this case is NOT confirmed)
Sources:
The Athletic
BBC
Twitter Source
This is so strange and scary. This man is a dangerous risk with multiple allegations, he’s still there working with no consequences, and hardly anyone is reporting it in England. So much for supporting women in football.
