Harpist denies sex abuse charges

A world-renowned female harpist has denied sexually abusing a schoolboy and told a trial that the boy sexually assaulted her while she was in the shower.

Danielle Perrett, 59, is on trial alongside her ex-fiance Richard Barton-wood, 68, accused of sexually abusing a boy in his early teens in the 1980s.

The schoolboy, who is now an adult, claims Perrett took his virginity and performed a sex act on him in the shower the following morning, and that Bartonwood indecently assaulted him on sailing trips and camping trips.

Perrett, of Bridge Street, Alpheton, Suffolk, has denied six counts of indecent assault. Bartonwood, of Church Street, Wymondham, Norfolk, has denied seven counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted indecent assault.