Former Chelsea Player Claims Club Paid Him £50k to Keep Silent Over Sex Abuse

Published on: 02 December 2016

​Former Chelsea first team player Gary Johnson has revealed that the club paid him off with £50k, in order to silence him over allegations of sexual abuse as a youth player from former club head scout Eddie Heath. The latest former player to tell his horrific story, amidst the recent set of revelations about sexual abuse in club and grassroots youth systems, is Johnson, who played for the Blues' from 1978 to 1981, after admitting to being indecently abused as a 13-year-old. After approaching...

Source: 90min.com

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