Former Birmingham-based football coach jailed for further 10 years for child sex offences

A convicted sex offender has been jailed for a further 10 years after admitting another 17 offences of child sexual abuse.

Kevan Tudor, a former football coach from Birmingham, is currently serving a nine-year sentence after being found guilty of arranging or facilitating child prostitution and two counts of penetrative sexual activity with a child in May 2016.

He was one of 10 men jailed for their part in the historical exploitation and abuse of two teenage boys in 2002-2003 and 2009-2010. After seeing a newspaper article about Tudor’s conviction, another individual came forward in 2017 and reported that he had been abused by Tudor in the early 80s when he was just 12-years-old.

After suffering mentally since his abuse, he did not feel strong enough to support an investigation and the case was filed, however in 2019 he felt stronger and, having spent his life plagued by doubt that anyone would believe him, he approached West Midlands Police again.

An investigation was opened and the breakthrough came from an original handwritten football club statistic book from 1980-1986 with all teams, matches, goals and coach records meticulously kept by the then team manager of the club where Tudor coached. From this police traced many of the team, now men in their 50s, secured witness accounts and identified further people who had suffered abuse. Police followed the trail of Tudor’s career into private coaching and found another survivor, with no knowledge of the others, who he had abused from the age of 10.

What has West Midlands Police said about the case?

Investigating officer Detective Constable Lisa Monahan explained: “Tudor groomed the boy and his family into believing he could be a famous goalkeeper, with promises of football scouts and trials at Premier League clubs. “Those dreams were used to secure complete freedom of access to the young boy with coaching sessions many times a week, where he was made to perform sexual acts on Tudor until he was 14-years-old. “Now in his 50s, he emotively describes the time, as a teenager, when he realised that he was not good enough at football to be professional and never was.” Tudor, now 61 and previously from Birmingham, was charged with 15 counts of indecent assault on a boy under 16 years of age and two counts of gross indecency against a boy under 14 years of age, against five victims. He admitted the charges at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday (8 July) and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, reduced by five years for an early guilty plea. DC Monahan added: “These men were abused by Tudor as boys trying to follow their dreams of being footballers. They were threatened into silence with being dropped from the teams they played for. Tudor was in a position of trust and so cruelly abused his power over boys at such a vulnerable age. “The torment from this does not end when the physical abuse stops and I hope that these men can take some comfort from the knowledge that they are believed.” A message from the editor:

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