Barry Bennell - It was always in the public interest - David Lean

To: Home Office public enquiries From: David Lean Subject:   Bail Conditions should be imposed on child sex offenders Good Afternoon, I hope you are well as you read this massive safeguarding concern. Very recently in October this year, I was made aware of an Individual who was first arrested, then investigated then even after charges were laid being allowed to watch Junior football matches for a period of 20 months without any restrictions in place to stop this? His crime was sexual communications to what he believed to be a 12-year-old boy which was actually part of a police sting operation but I believe my concerns relate to all offences of any sexual crime to a child. I was massively concerned as a Survivor of Sexual abuse within football myself at aged 12 and wrote immediately to the LFA, FA, the local club involved and also my MP and the LADO, along with the NSPCC. I could not believe this was possible but I have now been reliably Informed now that police up and down the Country

  Who is watching your children play sport, Do we really know?                                     By  David Lean and Jason Holyhead   While both of my blogs are factual, any opinion expressed are my own.   Let me begin by making it very clear that this is a real-life situation and it did not happen twenty years ago; this is ongoing as I write and in fact, I only became aware of it myself on October 9 th 2020. I have decided not to mention names, although I have added a link to a media report from Granada Reports to add evidence to support this blog being the truth, should you wish to watch it alongside your reading. Thank you Jason for helping me write and draw attention to this Truth.   On October 8 th 2020 I was aware that Barry Bennell - the football coach who has sexually abused over 100 boys, was finally being sentenced in Court for the last time. This process had started all over again for Bennell, who was first convicted  in the 90s and when I disclosed in 201