The Guildhall School of Music has a lot to answer for. A family who complained about Pickett attacking their 17-year-old daughter in 1984 were told by the school that she should have her lessons elsewhere as no one else had complained.

In 2013, the director of music at Chetham's school of music in Manchester was jailed for six years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a pupil. The victim killed herself halfway through the trial. She was 48.

Her death prompted a nationwide police investigation after dozens of former pupils from Chetham's and other music schools and conservatoires came forward to accuse music teachers of sexually abusing them or their peers as children or young adults.