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A former youth coach at Motherwell has been caged for 18 months for sex attacks on young boys.

Bob Allan, an ex-youth development officer at the SPFL club, was found guilty of historical child abuse during the 1980s and 1990s.

At sentencing today he was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.

During a two-day trial the 69-year-old pled not guilty to charges at Glasgow Sheriff Court which forced the victims to recount the horror of abuse.

A third charge against Allan for failing to turn up to the first diet was admonished after it emerged he tried to take his own life which left him hospitalised.

It came after the Daily Record first published detailed allegations of child abuse carried out by Allan.

Allan sexually assaulted one youngster – aged between 13 and 16 – on an occasion between May 21, 1984 and May 20, 1986, at an address in Cambuslang, near Glasgow.

And on April 7, 1993, at the same address, he carried out another sex attack on a boy of 15.

Allan, who is believed to have started his role with Motherwell in the early 90s, was cleared of unrelated sex offence allegations in the US, which were reported in the Record at the time.

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The pervert ran a company – Inter-Global Sports Travel – which organised football trips for youngsters. He was charged in 1997 with committing a lewd and lascivious act upon a child, after a 15-year-old called police in Florida claiming he had been indecently assaulted.

Allan was away with three boys, aged 14, 15 and 16, on a two-week coaching trip.

But just three days into the trip, the boys were sent home and Allan flew back after paying a bail bond of about £1700, and then went into hiding.

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