Evil Peter Antonelli, from Gullane, East Lothian, used the same distorted techniques to mistreat girls as his former roommate and teacher teacher Christopher Ling – he was later accused of assaulting 10 girls at a leading music school in Manchester.

One of the six victims of 66-year-old Antonelli revealed that she met Ling when she visited Scotland and that she made a series of obscene comments to her and another student. Both men, who studied at the Royal College of Music in London, treated their victims, forcing them to wear underwear and have sex while taking nude photos. They were also manipulated so as not to reveal the abuse. Grace – not her real name – testified against piano teacher Antonelli last year, saying Ling referred to his friend’s students as “the walks of the future”. Ling, who lived in the US, shot himself in the head in 2015 just minutes before police arrived at his home to extradite him back to the UK to face 77 counts of sexual injustice against students at Chetham’s School of Music. Dr Ian Pace, a pianist who has worked to expose the historical abuse of students and teachers in specialized music schools, described the links of the perverts as “very important”. He said: “It would be interesting to compare how they work. How exactly did they use their techniques to manipulate, abuse and then abuse the students in their care. “Ling seems to have had his kind of abuse in a kind of art, as he would see it.” BBC Scotland Disclosure: Abused By My Teacher – which airs tomorrow on BBC1 at 10.40pm – tells the story of the survivors who brought Antonelli to justice. And it reveals the current gaps in the regulation of children’s performing arts in Scotland. Grace was one of the first victims of the teacher and the music director. She was only 10 years old when she started working at her elementary school. Antonelli – who was awarded an MBE in 2004 for his services to music education – abused her at a time when she was having difficulty at home and her ordeal began on the day of her grandmother’s funeral when she was just 14 years old and continued for the next five years. Grace was 15 years old and another victim was 13 when she met Ling. He said: “Ling said to Antonelli, ‘Look at these girls, these are the walks of the future.’ Grace had seen many photos of other girls in Antonelli’s apartment and believes the photos were passed on to other people. Another victim, Emma, ​​said she had been sexually abused by Antonelli from the late 1990s to 2005 and had kept the secret hidden for two decades. She was taught by him at school and was also on a musical theater group he led and called Musical Youth. The women reveal why they decided to go to the police and why they are determined to pursue the case after so many years. Emma said: “I wanted justice for myself, I wanted justice for other women and I want her to never be able to do it again to other children, and she can not.” Grace said: “I wanted a quiet life. But in reality you can only run away for so long and then you have to come back and face it. “That’s what I had to do.” Do not miss the latest news from all over Scotland and beyond – Subscribe to our daily newsletter here .