• Hyde Peters accused of failing to alert club to husband’s ban• ‘There can be no compromise on welfare and safeguarding’Zara Hyde Peters’ position as the new chief executive of
UK Athletics is under review after questions were raised over whether she allowed her husband to coach at a local athletics club after he had an “inappropriate relationship” with a 15-year-old schoolgirl.
Hyde Peters, who is due to start her £200,000 role on 1 December, is accused of failing to alert members of Coventry Godiva Harriers about her husband Mike Peters’ teaching ban when she was coaching co-ordinator and vice-chair at the club between 2012 and 2017.