The jury was unable to reach a verdict on four further counts relating to Ball's time at Giggleswick School, and the Crown Prosecution Service did not wish to proceed to a retrial.Īn NSPCC spokesman said: 'The fact it has taken so long to bring him to justice raises serious questions about how he was able to continually commit these crimes over more than 10 years, and why these allegations were not thoroughly investigated at the time.' School two: Ball was also found guilty of sexually abusing three girls at his former school, Giggleswick School in Settle, North Yorkshire (pictured)Ĭlaire Matthews, mitigating, said Ball was in a 'serious relationship' with the pupil from the Kimbolton School, was a 'talented musician' and an 'intelligent, dedicated, well-educated' individual.īall, formerly of Greenwich, south-east London, and currently of Newent, Gloucestershire, admitted five counts of engaging in sexual activity while in a position of trust at Kimbolton School, and was found guilty of four counts of engaging in sexual activity while in a position of trust and one count of indecent assault at Giggleswick School. Reading her statement, prosecutor Charles Falk said the girl 'feels guilt and sadness that it took her 12 years to tell the truth and in those 12 years someone else got hurt'. One Giggleswick pupil told of her 'guilt' that in the time it took her to speak to authorities, another girl had fallen victim to Ball.

'I want to find out why he was allowed to commit such a similar crime again. He was my teacher. In her personal victim statement, she said: 'It's not like he's moved schools and tried a different method. It's almost the same and it bothers me. One of the victims, who went to Kimbolton, said her teacher 'was meant to protect' her and questioned how he was able to commit a similar crime again. He was also found guilty of sexually abusing three girls at his former school, Giggleswick School in Settle, North Yorkshire, following a nine-day trial. Oxford-educated Simon Ball, 42, was jailed for 12 years after admitting sexually abusing one girl while he was director of music at Kimbolton School near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Victims of an ex-boarding school teacher who sexually abused four pupils and had sex with one girl on his wife's wedding dress have spoken of their ordeal - with one describing how she was 'robbed of her childhood'. In the dock: Oxford-educated Simon Ball, 42, was jailed for 12 years for having sex with four girls from two top schools

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