Snooker champion Graeme Dott guilty of child sex abuseImage source, PA MediaImage caption, Graeme Dott was found guilty of two charges at the High Court in GlasgowByJames DelaneyBBC ScotlandPublished24 August 2026Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been found guilty of child sexual abuse.The 49-year-old denied two charges of lewd and libidinous behaviour towards a girl and a boy between 1993 and 2010.During a trial, the High Court in Glasgow heard that Dott had exposed himself and inappropriately touched a primary school girl in the 1990s and attacked a young boy between 2006 and 2010.Lord Harrower told Dott, who won the World Snooker Championship in 2006, he would be sentenced at a separate hearing in Edinburgh on 29 September.Dott, from Glasgow, covered his face with his hands and shook his head while the verdict was delivered by jurors following a five-day trial.He previously called the allegations made against him “disgusting”.
