Here is the piece shared on the BBC website

Snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for seven years for child sex abuse

by Jonathan Geddes, Glasgow and west reporter and Paul O’Hare,at the High Court in Edinburgh

Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been jailed for seven years after being convicted of child sexual abuse.

Judge Lord Harrower said Dott robbed his victims of “a significant part of their childhood” and said his behaviour bore the hallmarks of grooming.

Dott had denied two charges of lewd and libidinous behaviour towards a girl and a boy between 1993 and 2010 but was found guilty following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

The 49-year-old Scot, who won the world snooker title in 2006, showed no emotion as he was sentenced, only nodding to someone in the public gallery as he was led away.

Lord Harrower told the High Court in Edinburgh that each of Dott’s victims were vulnerable for reasons beyond their age.

He said Dott rewarded the victims with treats and disguised his abuse as being part of a game.

The former snooker champion was 16 or 17 when he abused the girl, who was about nine when her ordeal began.

There is nothing to add really, only that my thoughts are with Dott’s (ex?)wife and children. There will be very unpleasant consequences for them as well, no doubts, and they have done nothing to deserve it. They will almost certainly face questions from the neighbourhood and/or schoolmates, they maybe be “ostracised”. Where they aware of what Graeme was doing? I hope not. I hope he didn’t abuse his own children as well, something that, alas, can’t be completely excluded, I’m afraid.