Former world snooker champion Dott guilty of child sex abuse
The former world champion was found guilty of lewd and libidinous behaviour towards a girl and boy.
Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been found guilty of child sexual abuse, with a High Court in Glasgow convicting him of two charges of lewd and libidinous behaviour towards a girl and a boy between 1993 and 2010. During the trial, evidence emerged that Dott had exposed himself and inappropriately touched a primary school girl in the 1990s and attacked a young boy between 2006 and 2010.
Dott, who won the sport's world championship at The Crucible in 2006, will be sentenced at a separate hearing in Edinburgh on 29 September. The court heard how Dott had caressed the girl's bottom while giving her a piggyback and exposed himself to her, as well as rewarding the boy with money, crisps, and fizzy drinks after molesting him in the shower at a home in South Lanarkshire.
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