Former WA football champion Barry Cable faces child sex abuse trial.

Former West Australian football champion Barry Cable, 82, awaits a verdict in a judge-only trial over historical child sexual abuse allegations. He pleaded not guilty to multiple counts involving a girl aged eight or nine in the late 1960s, which prosecutors say occurred at his Perth home. The alleged victim reported the abuse in 2023 after seeing Cable on television. A separate civil trial in 2023 found Cable liable for abusing another girl, resulting in an $818,700 damages award and the stripping of his football honors.