UNITED KINGDOM
Hull Daily Mail
A FORMER teacher has walked free from court during a trial into alleged sexual abuse at a Market Weighton school.
Charges of assault causing actual bodily harm and indecent assault against Michael Curran, 62, were dropped during the trial at Leeds Crown Court on Monday.
Judge Geoffrey Marson QC directed the jury to formally find Mr Curran not guilty on the two charges and he left the court a free man.
It was the second time Mr Curran has faced charges following a police investigation into allegations of abuse at the school. Last year, Humberside Police paid damages to Mr Curran and faced a legal bill that may run to £500,000 after two officers deliberately sought to secure his dismissal from his job in education, even though he had been cleared of any wrongdoing at court.
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