{"id":13739,"date":"2025-09-11T06:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/13739\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:12:13","slug":"former-premier-league-referee-david-coote-charged-over-child-abuse-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/13739\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Premier League referee David Coote charged over child abuse video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ex-official, aged 43 and from Collingham, is due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Thursday\n<\/p>\n

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Former Premier League referee David Coote has been charged with making an indecent image of a child.<\/p>\n

Former Premier League referee David Coote has been charged with making an indecent image of a child.<\/p>\n

The ex-official, aged 43 and from Collingham, is due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The charge of making an indecent image of a child refers to activities such as downloading, sharing or saving abuse photos or videos.<\/p>\n

The allegation relates to a video recovered by officers from Nottinghamshire Police in February, the force said.<\/p>\n

Coote was charged on August 12 and is on conditional bail.<\/p>\n

Coote was sacked by Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) in December, after a video of abusive comments he had made about former Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp in 2020 came to light.<\/p>\n

He was also banned by European football’s governing body UEFA until June 30 2026 after a different video emerged of him snorting a white powder through a bank note while in Germany for Euro 2024.<\/p>\n

In January Coote came out as gay and said a lifelong struggle to hide his sexuality had contributed to the rant about Klopp and his apparent drug use.<\/p>\n

In August this year he was also given an eight-week suspension by the Football Association over the Klopp footage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 The ex-official, aged 43 and from Collingham, is due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-13739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}