Fatal car crash happened minutes before former football youth coach’s sex abuse trial due to begin A former youth football coach and scout whose car crashed into a tree on the day he was due to go on trial on historical sex abuse charges died of a traumatic brain injury, an inquest has heard.Michael “Kit” Carson, 75, had denied 12 counts of indecent assault and one of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. The allegations involved 11 boys under the age of 16, between 1978 and 2009.They were touched intimately by Carson.They were routinely made to strip and exercise so their muscular development could be examined in the UK and while on trips abroad.They were instructed to wrestle in muddy puddles just in underwear with each other, told to swim naked or massage each other with oil. Continue readingreadfullarticle
