Graeme Dott, the 2006 World Snooker champion, has been charged with youngster intercourse offences in opposition to a boy and a lady; Warning: This story incorporates particulars which some might discover distressing. If you’re affected by this story, please go to sky.com/viewersupport
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Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been charged with youngster intercourse offences
Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been charged with youngster intercourse offences.
The 47-year-old is dealing with fees of historic intercourse abuse in opposition to a boy and a lady.
Courtroom papers allege Dott abused the lady in Glasgow between 1993 and 1996, starting when she was round 10.
He faces a second cost of sexually abusing a boy between 2006 and 2010, in places in Lanarkshire, from when the kid was aged round seven.
Dott – who gained the World Championship in 2006 – has been suspended by snooker’s governing physique, the World Skilled Billiards and Snooker Affiliation (WPBSA).
A brief assertion on the WPBSA web site learn: “Graeme Dott has been suspended by the WPBSA due to a case which is scheduled to be heard before the High Court in Scotland.
“While courtroom proceedings are ongoing, it will be inappropriate for the WPBSA to make any additional remark.”
Dott was set to enter this 12 months’s World Snooker Championship qualifiers within the second spherical on Friday.
He has the appropriate to attraction his suspension however is it unlikely that course of could possibly be accomplished in time for him to play on Friday as scheduled.
The case is because of name on the Excessive Courtroom in Glasgow in June.
