UNITED KINGDOM
London Evening Standard
Rashid Razaq
15 May 2013
Friends of a talented violinist who was driven to suicide after giving evidence against her abuser will perform a new piece of music written in her memory.
Frances Andrade, 48, a mother of four from Guildford, Surrey, took her own life on January 24, six days after she gave evidence at the trial of her former teacher Michael Brewer.
He was accused of a string of sex crimes against her when she was a pupil at the prestigious Chetham’s school of music in Manchester.
Brewer, 68, the former director of music at Chetham’s, was jailed for six years in March after he was convicted of indecently assaulting Mrs Andrade when she was 14 and 15.
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