Overview
- The defendant’s identity remains confidential under a 2024 anonymity order granted by a judge at his request.
- The claimant alleged she was 15 in the 1990s and said the executive raped her at his home.
- She had sought aggravated damages, alleging trespass to the person, assault and battery, and intentional infliction of injury.
- Police told the woman a criminal case could not be brought because of the delay in reporting under the law then in effect.
- The Football Association reiterated its safeguarding processes and declined to discuss the case, and no reason for the discontinuation was disclosed.