Friday, September 11, 2015

'Suicide violinist groomed me'


A WOMAN who was groomed by a violin teacher in Caversham as a teenager has come forward after hearing the news that he shot himself last week at his Los Angeles home.

Chris Ling, 58, was facing extradition to the UK to face 77 charges of sex abuse against students at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester. Police officers went to arrest him last Tuesday but found him dead. Los Angeles police are now investigating the death as a suicide.

But before he went to teach in Manchester, Mr Ling taught private students at his home in Prospect Street, Caversham during the Eighties.

The woman, who does not wish to be named, began lessons with Mr Ling when she was 13 and he was 24, but she became increasingly uncomfortable with the way he touched her and talked to her. After two years she left and never went back. But last week when she saw his death reported on TV she contacted the police and made a statement.  (more...)


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