Top English boxing coach Mick Driscoll, 54 – who is well-known by the sports’ biggest names – is charged with three counts of sexual assault… a year after he was sacked following allegations against him
- Boxing trainer Mick Driscoll has been charged with three counts of sexual assault.
- The England boxing team’s Driscoll is well known to some of the biggest names in the sport.
- Last year, the coach was fired after numerous allegations were made against him.
An England boxing coach well known to some of the sport’s top figures has been charged with sexual assault.
Mail Sport reported last year that the coach was sacked following a series of allegations made against the Sheffield-based organization, which commissioned an independent review.
Police, who had previously received complaints, subsequently reopened an investigation they had previously closed and have now confirmed that former top performance coach Mick Driscoll, 54, has been charged with three counts of sexually assaulting a woman.
Driscoll became the first national recipient of the European Boxing Confederation’s Coach of the Year Award in 2018. It won three golds and a bronze for English wrestlers at the Youth Olympics and has helped the country’s youth win 34 major championships medals during its existence.
A Sussex Police spokesman said: “Michael Driscoll, 54, from Portsmouth, has been charged with three counts of sexual assault of a female. “He remains released and will appear at Crawley Magistrates’ Court on January 19, 2024.”
Driscoll, himself a former boxer, has won two national elite championships. He competed for England and narrowly missed out on qualifying for the 1988 Olympics as a welterweight.
Prominent England boxing coach Mick Driscoll has been accused of sexual assault.
Police confirmed he has been charged with three counts and will appear in court in January 2024.