Former Motherwell youth coach Bob Allan caged for 18 months for sex attacks on young boys

He took Motherwell 15s when i was there with John Park. Tam Forsyth was around for the bigger games and was crazy. Bob Allan always came across as the good cop, full of praise never a negative. Makes you shudder thinking back. Wasn't there for very long which was devastating as a young player, but with hindsight a blessing. Awful what these people with power over the young have done.
 
Not a long enough sentence .

At sentencing today he was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.



A former youth coach at Motherwell has been caged for 18 months for sex attacks on young boys.
Bob Allan, an ex-youth development officer at the SPFL club, was found guilty of historical child abuse during the 1980s and 1990s.
At sentencing today he was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
During a two-day trial the 69-year-old pled not guilty to charges at Glasgow Sheriff Court which forced the victims to recount the horror of abuse.
It came after the Daily Record first published detailed allegations of child abuse carried out by Allan.


Allan sexually assaulted one youngster – aged between 13 and 16 – on an occasion between May 21, 1984 and May 20, 1986, at an address in Cambuslang, near Glasgow.

And on April 7, 1993, at the same address, he carried out another sex attack on a boy of 15.
Allan, who is believed to have started his role with Motherwell in the early 90s, was cleared of unrelated sex offence allegations in the US, which were reported in the Record at the time.


The pervert ran a company – Inter-Global Sports Travel – which organised football trips for youngsters. He was charged in 1997 with committing a lewd and lascivious act upon a child, after a 15-year-old called police in Florida claiming he had been indecently assaulted.
Allan was away with three boys, aged 14, 15 and 16, on a two-week coaching trip.
But just three days into the trip, the boys were sent home and Allan flew back after paying a bail bond of about £1700, and then went into hiding.
I was training with fir Park Boys club, with a view to joining them when the florida attack happened. Had I went to them months earlier, I'd have been in florida with them. The talk at the time was that there wasn't enough beds, so player/ coaches had to double up. It put an end to the training for a while, so I never went back.
 
I can’t remember him at all when i was at motherwell,,the guy I remember most was the physio john hart,he was an absolute deviant,,how he never ended up embroiled in all this baffles me,he died years ago tho
 
He took Motherwell 15s when i was there with John Park. Tam Forsyth was around for the bigger games and was crazy. Bob Allan always came across as the good cop, full of praise never a negative. Makes you shudder thinking back. Wasn't there for very long which was devastating as a young player, but with hindsight a blessing. Awful what these people with power over the young have done.

We may have been team mates, i was in his motherwell 15's side in 1995.
 
As a country, Scotland is fecked, child abusers getting the equivalent of a slapped wrist, no comments from the football authorities, or the government, in other words they don’t give a toss.
 
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