A YOUNG choirmaster took a vulnerable student's virginity just months after she confided in him that she had been abused by another music teacher.

A court heard that Edward Moore was working in his first job as assistant director of music at King Edward's School, Witley, when he had consensual sex with the 16-year-old student in his office.

After the incident, the 24-year-old teacher said to her:

Moore, from Ascot, Berkshire, was jailed last Friday after admitting two counts of sexual activity with a girl aged between 13 and 17.

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