A fatal accident inquiry heard James McCafferty had been 'in very poor health', needed a Zimmer or a wheelchair to get around, was suffering from mild to severe dementia.
A paedophile Celtic youth football coach who abused young players over decades died alone at a top security jail with multiple health conditions, dementia, and a brain tumour, a court was told today.
A fatal accident inquiry at Falkirk Sheriff Court heard McCafferty had been "in very poor health", needed a Zimmer or a wheelchair to get around, was suffering from mild to severe dementia, had suffered a series of strokes, multiple hospital admissions for sepsis, and needed daily nursing. He also had a kind of benign brain tumour, known as a frontal lobe meningioma.
Disgraced McCafferty was convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh in 2019 for a string of sex attacks on players at Celtic from 1972 to 1996. He had pleaded guilty to six charges of indecent assault, four charges of indecently assaulting children, lewd and libidinous practices and behaviour boys against boys aged as young as 11, and breach of the peace, all while he was a football coach at Celtic Boys Football Club and Celtic Football Club.
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