Teaching ban for groping bass player

  A world-renowned musician who admitted groping three students in the 1980s and 90s has been thrown out of the teaching profession after a tribunal disregarded a High Court decision to waive a ban. Double-bassist Duncan McTier, who has taught at a string of musical institutions across the UK and abroad, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three young female pupils. He appeared at Liverpool Crown Court in November 2014 to admit two charges of indecent assault and one of attempted…