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| Michael Brewer: Music director guilty of sex abuse charges | Michael Brewer: Music director guilty of sex abuse charges |
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| A leading choir director and his ex-wife have been convicted of indecently assaulting a former music school pupil when she was 14. | |
| Michael Brewer, 68, of Selly Oak, Birmingham, carried out the offences at Chetham's School of Music and his Manchester home between 1978 and 1982. | Michael Brewer, 68, of Selly Oak, Birmingham, carried out the offences at Chetham's School of Music and his Manchester home between 1978 and 1982. |
| The jury at Manchester Crown Court is still deliberating on charges linked to an alleged rape of the same victim. | The jury at Manchester Crown Court is still deliberating on charges linked to an alleged rape of the same victim. |
| Brewer and his ex-wife, Hilary, 67, of Rossendale, denied all charges. | |
| Hilary Brewer, also known by her middle name Kay, was convicted of indecently assaulting the same victim when she was an adult at their then family home. | |
| Brewer was cleared of one charge of indecently assaulting the victim as a child in his home. | |
| Appointed OBE | |
| The jury of six men and five women is continuing to deliberate over an allegation he raped the victim when she was aged 18 and his then-wife aided and abetted the rape. | |
| During the trial, Peter Cadwallader, prosecuting, said Brewer had also acted in an improper way towards two other female pupils - years after the alleged victim in the case left the school. | |
| In the early 1990s he was forced to resign from Chetham's after an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old girl, Mr Cadwallader said. | |
| Brewer, who was appointed OBE in 1995, directed the World Youth Choir and also worked on the BBC's Last Choir Standing programme. |