Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott is to stand trial charged with child sex abuse.<\/p>\n
The 48-year-old Scot is accused of lewd and libidinous behaviour towards two children between 1993 and 2010.<\/p>\n
The allegations include claims he inappropriately touched a girl, instructed her to remove her clothes and exposed himself to her, as well as molesting a boy, making sexual remarks and watching him shower.<\/p>\n
Dott, who won the world title in 2006, has pled not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n
A trial has been scheduled for next year. <\/p>\n
Both charges state the alleged incidents occurred on “various occasions”, at addresses in the east end of Glasgow, South Lanarkshire and in a car.<\/p>\n
The case called for a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow, where the attendance of Dott was excused.<\/p>\n
His lawyer Euan Dow told the hearing there was one defence witness listed, but there could potentially be more.<\/p>\n
Mr Dow told the court that his client was not currently ready for trial, but asked for a date to be set.<\/p>\n
Lord Mulholland confirmed a five-day trial would begin on 17 August 2026. <\/p>\n
Dott remains on bail. <\/p>\n
He was suspended by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association when the charges were announced earlier this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott is to stand trial charged with child sex abuse. The 48-year-old Scot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-343897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115027245279760228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}