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Ex-AFL legend cleared in sex abuse trial
Judge Michael Bowden found the 82-year-old former football great not guilty after a three-day trial over allegations from the late 1960s.
- On Monday, former Australian Rules football legend Barry Cable was acquitted of seven historical child sexual abuse charges at Perth's Western Australian District Court after Judge Michael Bowden delivered a not guilty verdict.
- The 82-year-old faced a judge-only trial over allegations he abused a girl aged about eight or nine at his family home in the late 1960s, with prosecutors alleging the abuse involved penetrative sex on multiple occasions.
- Judge Bowden acknowledged he considered it "more probable than not that she is telling the truth," but concluded the evidence did not meet the threshold of guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
- Cable's son Shane Cable said outside court his family was "pleased and not surprised," while one alleged victim expressed disappointment, stating "the system has failed his victim-survivors."
- The criminal acquittal follows a 2023 civil trial where Cable was ordered to pay $818,700 in damages for abuse; he was subsequently stripped of his Australian Football Hall of Fame honors by the West Australian Football Commission.
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