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An ex- Chelsea and Liverpool scout who was facing historic child sex abuse charges has been found dead.

Harry Dunn, who also worked for Rangers, was arrested earlier this year and released on bail, reports the Daily Record.

Last night, a Crown Office spokeswoman said: “Harry Dunn appeared in private, on petition at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on April 26 in connection with alleged sexual offences in the early 1980s.

“He was committed for further examination and released on bail. As a result of his death proceedings against him are now at an end.”

He’d faced one allegation of assault and sodomy and a second charge of assault and attempted sodomy.

Dunn, 84, made no plea or declaration when he appeared in court and was expected to appear again.

A series of allegations were made public about Dunn.

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In February, it merged police were investigating a complaint of attempted rape made by a former Ibrox prospect.

The man, who was 16 at the time, told cops the abuse took place at Dunn’s flat as another teenager slept in one of the other rooms.

A second victim came forward to allege he was aged 16 when Dunn assaulted him at his flat in Edinburgh before a trial for Liverpool at Grangemouth, Stirlingshire.

Another of Dunn’s alleged victims, former player Levi Stephen, waived his anonymity in a BBC Scotland documentary in April to detail the abuse he said he suffered when he was aged 13 and on a trial for Liverpool.

Dunn was thought to have been living in Edinburgh before his death.