All monsters like Barry Bennell deserve to be punished, says Alan Brazil

THERE is only one word for Barry Bennell and people of his ilk – monster.

I was delighted to see the predatory former youth coach being handed a 31-year prison sentence for sexually abusing kids this week.

That’s a proper sentence, and it had to be.

The judge that jailed Bennell called him “the devil incarnate” for heaven’s sake.

If that doesn’t give you an idea of how evil his actions were, nothing will.

But I’ve got no doubt that there are plenty more twisted people just like him still out there.

They are people who have been entrusted with coaching children.

They are people who abused that trust and escaped justice.

I have a personal interest in this issue, as most people know.

In 1998, my evidence helped bring down James Torbett, the sick Celtic Boys’ Club coach who abused me – and others – in the ’60s and ’70s.

Seeing him convicted was a great moment.

So I would urge anybody else who endured the same nightmare as a kid – and I know they are out there – to stand up and speak out.

These animals who prey on children deserve to be punished, just like Torbett was, and just like Bennell has been.