UNITED KINGDOM
London Evening Standard
TONY PALMER
PAUL CHESTON
Published: 27 April 2015
A leading composer of church music who taught at private schools including one attended by Nigella Lawson and Kate Beckinsale has escaped prison after police found images of child abuse at his home.
John Barnard, 66, a former German and French teacher at the £18,000-a-year Godolphin and Latymer school in Hammersmith, was arrested after officers raided his house in Harrow.
He pleaded guilty at Harrow Crown Court to three counts of making indecent images of children and one charge of possessing indecent photographs, which relate to 29 pictures found in his bedroom. Most of the images depicted boys aged between 14 and 16. …
Barnard is currently suspended as head of choir at John Keble Church, Edgware.
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