Ex-Preston boarding school 'house father' cleared of indecent assaults on former pupil after prosecution offer no evidence
A man who used to work at Preston's Derby School has been cleared of a string of historic alleged sexual attacks on a teenage schoolboy in the 1970s and 1980s.
Terence Hepworth, 62, of Holmfield, Halifax, West Yorkshire, had denied seven indecent assault charges and was on trial at Preston Crown Court.
The school closed in 1988 and the building is now privately owned.