Former West Australian champion footballer Barry Cable has been found not guilty of historical child sex abuse charges dating back to the 1960s.
Cable had consistently denied the charges in a judge-alone criminal trial, which heard he had allegedly abused a girl aged about eight or nine at his family home.
The 82-year-old learned his fate in Perth’s District Court on Monday afternoon, which was handed down by Judge Michael Bowden.
Prosecutors had alleged Cable abused the girl at his family home when she was staying with him and his wife, Helen, for about a month.
The woman reported the alleged abuse to police in 2023 when she spotted Cable on television, telling the court during the trial that it had “brought back memories of what he had done to me”.
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