Jim Torbett: Last News

A former player with Celtic Boys Club claimed his manager asked him to wear the club’s shorts and then indecently assaulted him. The teenager told police that Jim Torbett, now aged 75, kissed him on the lips and put his hand down his shorts after he stayed overnight at Torbett’s fifth storey flat in Glasgow.

For decades, the survivors of Celtic Boys Club abuse scandal have been just that – survivors.

Celtic Boys’ Club victim Andrew Gray has demanded the SFA apologise after its child abuse report claimed his dad ignored fears he was being molested.Tragic Andrew was abused by team founder Jim Torbett while he was a schoolboy and contacted police in 2016.But the 41-year-old died in a swimming pool accident after travelling to Perth, Australia, to visit Iain Kerr, who emigrated there from Glasgow.Iain gave evidence to the Independent Review of Sexual Abuse in Scottish Football panel on Andrew’s behalf.The Scottish Football Association-commissioned report was published this month and included accounts from 33 young players describing their abuse, including rape, in cases stretching back to the 70s.But the report left Andrew’s family

predator Jim Torbett during his spell with the team.  The ex-Chelsea and Motherwell winger, 57, played for the youth setup during the 1970s and encountered convicted paedophile Torbett. Victims of sexual abuse at the Boys Club are currently locked in a legal battle with Celtic who insist the two are 'separate entities' despite sharing 'historic contacts' with each other.

Jim Torbett and for loss of earnings in a potential professional career, with more cases set to follow.Now an article from the Celtic View has emerged showing a flow-chart management structure for Celtic FC with the Boys’ Club firmly part of the set-up in the 1990s.It is significant because Celtic have said the club is a “separate organisation” from the Celtic Boys’ Club.On Tuesday, Thompsons Solicitors branded Celtic’s position “disgraceful” in the light of past – and new – evidence.Some of the sexual abuse of boys took place at the club’s then Barrowfield training ground.The Daily Record has already revealed how, in the 1980s, Celtic FC investigated Boys’ Club bosses and cleared them of any wrongdoing.

A striking photograph from more than 50 years ago haunts a victim of Celtic Boys’ Club child sex beast Jim Torbett to his core.

A man who says he was sexually abused in a toy shop by Celtic Boys’ Club serial child sex offender Jim Torbett in an appalling case of historical abuse is to write about his anguish in a book.