Former champion Graeme Dott has been removed from World Snooker’s Hall of Fame after being convicted of sexually abusing two primary school age children.
Dott, who won the World Snooker Championship in 2006, was found guilty on Monday of two counts of lewd, indecent and libidinous behaviour towards the children. The 49-year-old Scot also reached the final at the Crucible in 2004 and 2010, losing the former to Ronnie O’Sullivan and the latter against Australia’s Neil Robertson.
“Following his conviction yesterday (August 24 2026) at the High Court in Glasgow, WST has taken the decision to remove Graeme Dott from the World Snooker Tour Hall of Fame with immediate effect,” World Snooker confirmed in a statement on Tuesday.
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) responded to the court verdict on Monday by saying it had permanently revoked Dott’s membership with immediate effect.
open image in galleryThis followed an emergency board meeting board where it was unanimously agreed to remove him from the sport.
A five-day trial heard how Dott had subjected a girl and a boy to multiple incidents of abuse, with the girl targeted between 1993-1996 and the boy between 2006-2010.
During the trial, jurors heard from one of Dott’s victims, a woman now in her 40s, who told the court Dott had sexually abused her on multiple separate occasions while she was a child.
She said the abuse had started with Dott “caressing” her bottom over her clothing while giving her a piggy back.
The woman also described an occasion when she said Dott suggested playing a “guessing game” where she had to guess what he was doing.
She told the court she lay down and he exposed himself to her and then began touching her with different parts of his body, including his penis.
The woman told the court that Dott told her not to tell anyone he was sexually abusing her.
open image in galleryThe second victim, a man who is now in his late 20s, said he was sexually abused by Dott on multiple occasions, with the snooker player touching him inappropriately, kissing him, and performing sexual acts.
He told the court a lot of the abuse took place while he was in a shower, when Dott would come in either partly or completely undressed.
“He would… come into the shower and put soap on my body and wash me in the shower,” the man told the court.
“While he was washing me he would touch me in inappropriate places.”
He said looking back at it now, Dott was “clearly getting sexual gratification from it”, and he was “pleasuring himself” while this was taking place.