Coach Toni Minichiello given life ban by UKA over sexually inappropriate conduct

BANNED: Toni Minichiello has been handed a life ban from coaching by UK Athletics. Pic: Adam Davy/PA

Toni Minichiello has been banned from athletics for life after an investigation found he engaged in “sexually physical behaviour” with athletes.

Minichiello, who coached Jessica Ennis-Hill to Olympic heptathlon glory, was also deemed to have made inappropriate sexual references and gestures to athletes and engaged in “inappropriate and sometimes aggressive behaviour, bullying and emotional abuse”.