Harpist loses sex attack appeal

A world famous harpist jailed for taking a schoolboy’s virginity in the 1980s lost her appeal after she unsuccessfully claimed she was discriminated against because she is a woman. Danielle Perrett, 60, who has played for the Queen and several Prime Ministers, was locked up for four years and nine months last February. Perrett’s ex-fiance Richard Barton-Wood, 68, received the same jail sentence for molesting the boy, referred to as ‘M’, while he was in his early teens. She had…