Breaking: Chethams rape trial ends in non-guilty verdict

Breaking: Chethams rape trial ends in non-guilty verdict

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norman lebrecht

June 08, 2015

Malcolm Layfield, former violin teacher at Chetham’s School of Music and head of strings at RNCM, has been found not guilty of rape, according to journalist tweets from Manchester Crown Court. The jury took less than two hours to reach their verdict.

Layfield, now 63, had insisted his sexual relationship with the teenager had been consensual, as it had been in his relations with other students around the same time, in the 1980s.

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