A coroner will today deliver his verdict in the case of a concert violinist who died a week after giving evidence at the sex abuse trial of her former music teacher.
Frances Andrade died from an overdose at her home in Guildford, Surrey, on January 24 2013, after testifying about abuse she suffered as a teenager at the hands of ex-Chetham’s School of Music choirmaster Michael Brewer.
The 48-year-old mother-of-four, known as Fran, did not live to see her abuser jailed for six years for five counts of indecent assault two months later.
Woking Coroner’s Court heard she discovered that a judge had instructed the jury in Brewer’s case to find not guilty verdicts for several charges on January 23.
Her husband Levine Andrade, 59, said in his evidence that his wife told him she felt as though she had been the one on trial during cross-examination by her abuser’s counsel.
In April this year, a serious case review by Surrey Safeguarding Adults Board said Mrs Andrade’s death ”could and should” have been prevented and mental health services failed to recognise she was vulnerable as she made repeated suicide bids.
Brewer, who taught at the prestigious Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester before going on to direct the World Youth Choir, was later stripped of a music services OBE after being jailed for the assaults when Mrs Andrade was aged just 14 and 15.
Coroner Richard Travers is expected to give his conclusion this afternoon.
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Verdict due on violinist's death
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