George Ormond was ‘classic groomer and manipulator’, jury told

The former Newcastle United coaching assistant George Ormond was a “wicked” groomer and manipulator who sexually abused young boys dreaming of becoming professional footballers, the jury at his trial has been told.In a speech closing the prosecution’s case that Ormond sexually abused boys and young men over a 25-year period, the barrister Sharon Beattie asked the jury at Newcastle crown court to consider a person in authority telling children that they were very good footballer