Head of Music at £37,000-a-year top private school is suspended amid sex assault claims against a 12-year-old schoolboy from three decades ago

UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail

By Isobel Frodsham For Mailonline

The head of music at a £37,000-a-year top private school in Berkshire has been suspended following claims he sexually assaulted a s 12-year-old boy three decades ago.

Sean Farrell, 49, was removed from his post at Wellington College, in Crowthorne, ‘several months ago’ after a police investigation commenced.

His ex-wife applied for a gagging order to prevent his workplace and job being named when Farrell appeared at York Magistrates Court last week.

However, after it was challenged, the order was lifted, according to The Times.

He is accused of two charges of indecent assault and two charges of gross indecency against a boy at Ampleforth College, in North Yorkshire, in the 1980s. Farrell denies the claims.

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