A FORMER youth footballer has claimed he was sexually abused by a Celtic Boys Club manager when he was a teenager.

The man, aged 46, told the High Court in Glasgow today that 71-year-old James Torbett – who he knew as Jim – would, on occasion, stuff hundreds of pound notes into his mouth while abusing him.

He said: “Sometimes he would give you money. He would fit it into your mouth using his hand.

“One time it was £530. I remember going home with £100 notes in my pocket.”

The man, who lives in the Glasgow area, also claimed that on a trip to Noyon in France with Celtic Boys Club Torbett did “a striptease” to music before abusing him.

The witness, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told prosecutor Sheena Fraser: “I was in my bed in a dormitory. Jim Torbett was standing there with a shirt and underpants on. He proceeded to do a striptease. He took his shirt off and was dancing.”

The man told the jury that Torbett, who still had his underpants on, was moving the shirt back and forwards between his legs. He claimed that Torbett then summoned him to his room and abused him.

At times during his evidence the witness appeared upset.

James Torbett, 71, from Glasgow, denies a total of nine offences of sexual abuse allegedly committed between August 1985 and August 1994.

The trial before judge Lord Beckett continues.