A Scottish music teacher who was convicted of raping and sexually abusing school pupils has had his MBE revoked.
Peter Antonelli was jailed for eight years in 2021 after a High Court jury found him guilty of sexual offences against six of his former pupils at schools in East Lothian.
Antonelli, who was 66 at the time of his trial, had left his victims with “considerable and lasting emotional damage”, according to a judge, due to the abuse he inflicted on them between 1980 and 2005.
The former piano teacher was awarded an MBE for services to musical education in the New Year’s Honours list at the end of 2004. However, following his conviction a petition was launched to have the award “revoked and taken
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