A former professional cricketer who sexually abused Canberra teenagers during private training sessions has had six months added to his minimum prison time over five fresh convictions.
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Ian Harold King, 70, is serving 19 years for repeatedly grooming and sexually abusing children he was training in a local cricket team in the 1980s and 1990s.
In June last year, he was sentenced for 25 sexual offences committed on five boys aged between 10 and 16 years.
The earliest King could have been released was May 2020.
But he now faces further time in the Alexander Maconochie Centre, where he lost an eye in a prison bashing this year, after he was sentenced on Thursday by Justice Richard Refshauge for five additional crimes.
King was one of the first indigenous Australians to play first-class cricket, representing Queensland in 1969 and 1970.
He came to the ACT in 1987 as a sports consultant, and later began coaching a local team of junior cricketers.
King invited some of the junior boys back to his home for "coaching on a private basis".
But his training sessions soon began to turn sexual.
He asked one victim about watching porn and masturbating, while told others to take off their clothes so he could inspect their muscles.
King took one to to buy a blow-up doll, gave a massage to another, and pulled down one of the boy's pants and underwear.
All five of the teenagers were seriously sexually assaulted or indecently touched by King.
Justice Refshauge said sentencing King was a complex task, given he had already been sentenced to 19 years for other offences.
King was described as an "isolated, introverted man", who had distorted thinking, and neurotic personal traits.
He was himself sexually abused during what the court heard was a deprived childhood.
But King, Justice Refshauge said, did know right from wrong.
The 70-year-old's difficult background, his guilty plea, his bashing inside the AMC, and his old age were all taken into account in the sentencing.
Justice Refshauge said there was "nothing redeeming or mitigating in these offences", but said any further prison time should not be crushing on King.
He sentenced the sex offender to an extra three years prison, and added six months to his non-parole period.
That means King will now not be eligible for release until November 2020.