A respected football coach inflicted a 19-year reign of sexual terror over boys, including the rape of a young player. Russell Conn, who managed teams for over 26 years in Ayrshire, targeted teenagers when they were alone.
The 59-year-old “groomed and abused” three boys between 1995 and 2014, leaving them “deeply damaged”. Conn, who also worked as a delivery driver and a painter and decorator, abused two of the boys in his work vans.The court heard he earned their trust and had sexual conversations with them before the attacks.
The jury was told he was guilty of “the grooming and manipulation and sexual abuse of teenage boys” and would often give victims money and cigarettes.His first victim, now 42, blamed himself for the abuse and said he had planned to die without ever revealing what had happened.
He said he “buried” what happened to him and “withdrew” into his “shell”, adding: “I had made peace with myself and thought I’d take it to my grave with me.“I put it in a wee box at the back of my head but there’s barely been a day gone by where I’ve not thought about it.” His second victim tried to kill himself within seconds of being forced on to a couch and abused in Conn’s home.Now a 27-year-old dad of three, he is unable to hold down a job because of mental health problems and struggles to go to the toilet due to the abuse.
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