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Barry Bennell has been charged with eight further counts of non-recent child sexual abuse. Photograph: PA/PA Archive/PA Images
Press AssociationThe former football coach Barry Bennell has been charged with eight further counts of non-recent child sexual abuse following an investigation by Cheshire police, the Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed.
The 63-year-old is due to appear at South Cheshire magistrates’ court via video-link on 13 March to face the charges, which relate to two complainants and are alleged to have taken place between 1980 and 1987.
A CPS spokesman said: “Today, 7 March, former professional football coach Barry Bennell, 63, was informed he has been charged with eight counts of non-recent child sexual abuse, following an investigation by Cheshire police.”
Bennell has been charged with five counts of buggery with a boy aged under 16, two counts of indecent assault on a boy aged under 14 and one count of indecent assault on a boy aged under 16.
The former Crewe Alexandra coach has previously been charged with seven counts of indecent assault on a boy and one count of attempted buggery.
Those offences were alleged to have happened between 1981 and 1986, when the complainant was under the age of 16.
He pleaded not guilty to those charges at Chester crown court in January and was remanded in custody until a further hearing on 20 March.
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