A glimpse into Bennell’s recent years paints a grim picture. The court, during his 2020 sentencing, was made privy to an unsettling detail: an eye injury due to an assault in jail. Adding another layer to his bleak existence, he was battling cancer and was in remission.
But Bennell was no stranger to prison walls. His tryst with incarceration began across the Atlantic in Florida in 1994, where he was penalized for sexually assaulting a British boy during a soccer expedition. The chapters of his life thereafter saw him making recurring appearances in British prisons in 1998, 2015, 2018, and the latest in 2020.
