The alleged victim said he initially thought Francis Cairney was giving him a consoling hug because he was homesick
A Celtic Boys Club manager touched a 15-year-old's private parts in a shower room at Celtic Park when the teenager was feeling upset after a game, a court has heard.
The 87-year-old is charged with indecently assaulting one boy in the late 1970s and another in the 1980s at football facilities, and a third boy in a hotel room in Aviemore and a car in Cumbernauld.Cairney, who has dementia, has been found unfit to stand trial for medical reasons, and instead an examination of facts hearing is taking place at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
He said that on one occasion, after a match at Celtic Park in 1986, he was feeling homesick as he had just returned from his family home abroad to live in Glasgow, and went into the shower room of the dressing room as he was feeling upset.Prosecutor Mark Allan asked what happened next."He was holding me and then he put his hand round my lower back. His hand was on top of the side of my leg.He added: "I was still in my football kit.
He said that when he first encountered Cairney, earlier in 1986, he thought he was "loud, a bit of a bully", and said: "He was very physical towards players, he would be very verbal, aggressive."
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