A boarding school music teacher and choirmaster, who had worked on television and film projects including Wallace and Gromit, abused boys for more than 40 years. David Pickthall, who was made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2015 for his services to education and charity,

Former teacher who abused children over more than four decades is jailed - The defendant, who glared at the judge during sentencing, slowly put his jacket on afterwards before he was led to the cells.

A former teacher and choirmaster who carried out dozens of child sex offences over a period of more than 40 years has been jailed for 12 years.