Former snooker world champion Graeme Dott has been charged with sexually abusing children.
The 47-year-old, who won the 2006 World Championship, will appear at the High Court in Glasgow on 11 June charged with historical sex offences relating to two children.
Prosecutors said the alleged offences took place between 1993 and 1996 and 2006 and 2010, when the children were around the age of 10.
Dott has been suspended from the sport ahead of this month’s World Championship at the Crucible.
The Scot won the 2006 World Championship, defeating Peter Ebdon in the final, and reached two other finals at the Crucible, in 2004 and 2010.
Now ranked 56th in the world, Dott’s suspension comes days before the start of this year’s World Championship, which gets underway on April 18. He was due to enter the qualifying rounds.
A statement from the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) said: “Graeme Dott has been suspended due to a case which is scheduled to be heard before the High Court in Scotland
“Whilst court proceedings are ongoing, it would be inappropriate for the WPBSA to make any further comment.”
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