Malcolm layfield biography

Malcolm Layfield, 63, admitted to shameful behaviour with several female students but said sex with year-old in s was consensual....

The trial of former Royal Northern College of Music Head of String, Malcolm Layfield has commenced in a UK court.

He has had a distinguished teaching career for many years and in he was appointed Head of the School of Strings at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Malcolm Layfield, 63, admitted to shameful behaviour with several female students but said sex with year-old in s was consensual.

Double Concerto in F Major for Violin and Keyboard, I. Allegro moderato.

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Malcolm Layfield is innocent. What now?

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norman lebrecht

June 09,

Slipped Disc editorial

The former Chetham&#;s violin and head of strings at Royal Northern College of Music was cleared within 90 minutes by a jury of the single charge on which he was tried; the alleged rape of an 18 year-old female student some 30 years ago.

Layfield, 63, is under British justice, cleared of all stigma and is free to resume his career.

But the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse at English music schools has not gone away.

In court, under oath, Layfield admitted with regret to having several affairs with his students at Chetham&#;s during the s.

He was not the only teacher to do so. Evidence was heard that Chetham&#;s was, at best, negligent during that period in exercising its duty of care towards vulnerable teenagers. Further evidence indicated that complaints by students against teachers who abused their authority in this way were not dealt with in an appropriate manner.

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