Pool playing child champion is now a sex predator who preyed on teenage girls

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A child champion pool player who represented his country at the age of just 10 can be exposed a sex predator who preyed on teenage girls.Sean Sneddon – now 20 – was heralded as a prodigy who could become one of the top names in the sport.But at the age of just 12 he began six-year reign of terror against four young women in his hometown of Oban.Sneddon was convicted of 11 charges following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow and was jailed for six years last week.Three victims were either raped or sexually assaulted by Sneddon.They were also hounded for naked photos, as was the fourth victim, in offences which occurred between 2016 and 2022.In 2015, the then “pocket rocket” made headlines after he was the picked as the youngest member of Team Scotland in the junior European pool championships.Sneddon said at the time: “I started to get really good and was beating my aunt, so she entered me in some competitions and that is how it started.”But jurors heard how not long after this he targeted his first victim who he went on to rape.He was described by prosecutors as acting “casually and callously” with the girl during her ordeal.

She could not state the exact number of occasions she was preyed upon but did say it occurred “lots of times”. In his speech to jurors, advocate depute Wojciech Jajdelski said: “Sean Sneddon would beg her not tell anyone and she was scared of what he would do.”The next girl, who was also raped, had her pre-recorded testimony played to the court.She knew one of the other victims but prosecutors asked jurors to dismiss any suggestion she spoke to police purely to support her friend’s accusations.The court heard, instead, she only reported the sex attacks a year or so after they happened.The third