Former football coach and serial paedophile Barry Bennell has died in prison at the age of 69, the Ministry of Justice announced.

Bennell, also known as Richard Jones, was jailed for 30 years in 2018 after being convicted of 50 child sexual offences against 12 boys. The former Crewe Alexandra coach and Manchester City scout abused boys in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Bennell reportedly had cancer, and had been in HMP Littlehey, where he was serving a sentence of 34 years, totalled up for a number of child sex offences.

He was being treated for cancer for a number of years and had operations to remove tumours from his tongue in 2004 and 2016, although he was said to be in remission in 2020.

His cause of death has not been disclosed. He died at HMP Littlehey, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, on Saturday, the Prison Service said.

Bennell was once described by a court judge as the "devil incarnate".