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| Danielle Perrett: Renowned harpist jailed for abusing schoolboy | Danielle Perrett: Renowned harpist jailed for abusing schoolboy |
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| A renowned harpist and her former partner have been jailed for sexually abusing a schoolboy in the 1980s. | A renowned harpist and her former partner have been jailed for sexually abusing a schoolboy in the 1980s. |
| Danielle Perrett - who has performed for The Queen - took the boy's virginity and performed sex acts on him, Ipswich Crown Court heard. | Danielle Perrett - who has performed for The Queen - took the boy's virginity and performed sex acts on him, Ipswich Crown Court heard. |
| Richard Barton-Wood sexually assaulted the boy on sailing and camping trips. | Richard Barton-Wood sexually assaulted the boy on sailing and camping trips. |
| Perrett, 59, from Alpheton, Suffolk, and Barton Wood, 68, from Wymondham, Norfolk were jailed for four years and nine months after being found guilty. | Perrett, 59, from Alpheton, Suffolk, and Barton Wood, 68, from Wymondham, Norfolk were jailed for four years and nine months after being found guilty. |
| Perrett was convicted of six counts of indecent assault while Barton-Wood was found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted indecent assault. | Perrett was convicted of six counts of indecent assault while Barton-Wood was found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted indecent assault. |
| Both denied the charges but sentencing them, Judge Rupert Overbury said they had been regarded as "pillars" of the community. | |
| 'Systematic abuse' | |
| "One of you a teacher and dedicated employee of the museums service who gave time to his community, the other a world-famous harpist with a reputation for kindness and integrity," the judge said. | |
| Judge Overbury added both had a "darker side" and were involved in "systematic abuse of a teenage boy". | |
| During a four-week trial, the court heard that Barton-Wood was a substitute teacher at the school the boy, now an adult, attended in his early teens. | |
| The jury was told that Perrett stripped naked and got into bed with the boy, where she had sex with him, and Barton-Wood followed suit by sexually assaulting him. | |
| The pair had claimed the allegations were untrue and the accuser was trying to blackmail them. |