Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for 7 years for sexually abusing children

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Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott was sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing two children in Scotland. The abuse occurred during periods from 1993 to 1996 and 2006 to 2010, and the sentence was handed down at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in jail for sexually abusing two primary school children in Scotland in the 1990s and early 2000s. Dott, who is 49, was convicted last month of abusing a girl from 1993-96 and a boy from 2006-10, following a five-day trial. Dott appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh, where judge Lord Harrower told him he had “robbed the complainers of a significant part of their childhood.”