A choirmaster who sexually abused a pupil who took her own life during his trial has been jailed for six years. Michael Brewer was convicted of indecently assaulting Frances Andrade when she was a student at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester.
Sentencing Michael Brewer, Judge Martin Rudland, sitting at Manchester Crown Court, said he had used his "powerful position" to groom Frances Andrade.
"You have had an impressive career but that is now at an end," he said.
"Sadly there is another side to you and it is this. You were, and you may still be, a predatory sex offender. Of that let no-one be in any doubt."
The son of a woman who was abused by a choirmaster as a teenager and took her own life has spoken of the legacy of his "wonderful mother".
Claims of sex abuse by music teachers are spreading beyond the Chetham's music school in Manchester where they began.