Police have arrested former elite Australian swimming coach John Wright in Western Australia.
The 78-year-old is expected to appear in Bunbury Local Court on Thursday to face extradition proceedings over charges of historical child sexual assault.
Queensland Police assembled a task force following the ABC’s investigation into allegations that Mr Wright sexually abused boys he coached in Queensland in the 1980s.
Detectives will seek Mr Wright’s extradition from Western Australia to Queensland to face multiple counts of child sexual abuse.
The ABC interviewed multiple men who allege Mr Wright abused them when he was their coach in the 1980s.
Mr Wright is also accused of abusing boys when he was a coach at Rockhampton in the 1970s and the Gold Coast in the late 1980s.
