Disgraced former AFL legend Barry Cable will combat allegations he sexually assaulted a younger lady a long time in the past.
The 80-year-old pleaded not responsible at Perth Magistrates Courtroom on Thursday to 5 counts of unlawfully or indecently coping with a woman aged beneath 13.
The previous WAFL and VFL nice additionally pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of illegal carnal information of a woman of the identical age.
Police allege Mr Cable sexually assaulted the lady between January 1, 1967 and April 27, 1968 when she was aged between 9 and 10-years-old.
The allegations come nearly a 12 months after a decide in a civil case dominated present in favour of the complainants and awarded the lead plaintiff damages of greater than $800,000.
5 girls gave proof throughout the prolonged civil trial. None of them is the complainant within the more moderen prison proceedings.
Regardless of the ruling, the lead plaintiff’s attorneys since claimed it was unlikely she would obtain the cash as Mr Cable had declared chapter earlier than the trial.
The previous AFL Corridor of Famer received back-to-back WAFL premierships in 1967 and 1968 and would have been aged 24 on the time of the alleged offences.
Following the civil finds in opposition to him, Mr Cable was stripped of his spot on the Sport Australia Corridor of Fame, AFL Corridor of Fame, and WAFL Corridor of Fame.
North Melbourne additionally eliminated him from their Corridor of Fame, as did the WA Institute of Sport Corridor of Champions.
Mr Cable will reappear earlier than Perth Magistrates Courtroom on August 8 for a committal point out.
