Paedophile cricket coach gets further 23 year jail term for sexually abusing three boys in the ACT

Paedophile cricket coach Ian Harold King, already serving a lengthy prison term for the abuse of minors, has been sentenced to a further 23 years behind bars for sexually abusing three boys in the ACT.

The sentence in Canberra this week followed the 80-year-old former Queensland Sheffield Shield cricketer having pleaded guilty in the ACT Supreme Court late last year to eight charges relating to the abuse of the victims between 1997 and 2003.

What's next? He is already serving a lengthy prison term for the abuse of 11 other boys, with the ACT Supreme Court hearing he will likely die in jail.

Notorious paedophile cricket coach Ian Harold King has been handed a 23-year sentence for the sexual abuse of three teenagers in the ACT in the late 90s and early 2000s.

The Court previously heard King had offered his victims one-on-one training sessions before luring them to his home where he would abuse them.

Victims described him as a "master manipulator and predator" with one man telling the Court King told him the abuse was necessary for him to become "a better cricketer and man".

Justice Baker said King had himself been abused while growing up in Queensland and "cognitive distortion" meant he believed his victims would "enjoy the offending because he did as a teenager".

During King's trial, one of his victims advised "to this very day, neither Cricket ACT or Cricket Australia show any form of compassion, empathy, compensation or public acknowledgement that they did nothing to prevent or stop this type of abuse from happening."

King received a discount to his sentence due to his guilty pleas.

His sentence ends in 2049 and he will not be eligible for parole until 2033.

The Court heard he will likely die in jail.

Lower image: Ian King during his time as a coach in the ACT.