内容摘要："There's no easy way through it, you've just to keep battering away. It's hard, it hurts, it's painful, and it seems like it's never-ending.

"There's no easy way through it, you've just to keep battering away. It's hard, it hurts, it's painful, and it seems like it's never-ending.

A teacher cleared of having a sexual relationship with a teenager has been told he will not face prosecution on two other charges.Jonathon Coombs, 54, from Barry, was a drama teacher at Pencoedtre Comprehensive and was involved in local theatre groups.

He denied seven charges of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.Following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court last week he was- but remained in custody after jurors could not reach a verdict on two other charges.

were nothing more than malicious rumours and that he had never admitted to sleeping with the teenager.The trial heard the defendant was involved with theatre groups for 30 years and had been a teacher for 20 years without having a complaint made against him.

The Crown Prosecution Service told Newport Crown Court on Wednesday it would not seek a retrial on the remaining charges.

Judge Eugene Egan formally found Mr Coombs not guilty of the remaining charges and he was released from custody."So many people here are traumatised by what has happened," Ms Woodall said.

"Today has been absolutely poignant."She added: "It is important for us to be here to represent all of those faces on the wall and to be among like-minded people, some of whom are very angry and upset."

Well-wishers at the National Memorial Arboretum in Burton-on-Trent heard a new poem from the writer, poet, broadcaster and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen, who spent time in hospital with Covid during the pandemic and"A shadow passed over us and hundreds of thousands of people felt the sudden and unexpected loss of loved ones," he said.