Maddy Cusack did not want Sheffield United to know about talks with club’s former chaplain, inquest told

• Dr Delroy Hall said Cusack struggled to juggle two jobs

• Cusack was found dead at her home in September 2023

The former club chaplain at Sheffield United has told an inquest into Maddy Cusack’s death that she repeatedly asked him not to inform the club that she had been speaking to him.

Dr Delroy Hall volunteered in the role at Sheffield United from 2017 until November 2023, around two months after Cusack’s death on 20 September 2023. Hall told the court on Wednesday that he thought players would come to him to discuss problems as a “last resort”. Cusack spoke to him multiple times in August 2023, including specifically on 23 August, and Hall said she asked him three or four times: “Please don’t tell anyone I’m talking to you.”

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