A youth coach with links to Celtic who sexually assaulted boys from a football academy has been jailed for 18 months.
Mark McAuley, 33, had insisted nothing “sinister” had gone on when he shared a bed with the boys. But Inverness sheriff Eilidh Macdonald said he was “not naive but deliberate and calculated”.
McAuley, of Dunfermline, was convicted over offences carried out between 2016 and 2019 in Dunfermline, Edinburgh and Tain. He ran a soccer group in Tain and had links with Dunfermline Athletic, Alloa Athletic and Celtic.
