A TRUSTED swimming coach who groomed one of his underage teen athletes before embarking on a sexual relationship with her has been jailed.
John McGinty’s offending was outlined to a judge, where it was heard the 59-year-old would pay the girl to do jobs and buy her affections with gifts, such as tickets to watch Manchester United.
Highly sexualised messages between the pair, recovered by police, revealed how McGinty, who has run swimming clubs in Bolton and East Lancashire, got the child to call him ‘Captain’.
The victim later said that she ‘loved’ married McGinty and he had told her that he loved her.