Choreographer Liam Scarlett has committed suicide on charges of wrongdoing.
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A former Royal Ballet choreographer on allegations of sexual assault committed suicide after being "humiliated" by claims and press reports, hearing investigations. Liam Scarlett, 35, told the Royal Opera House that there were grounds for disciplinary action.
He left the company in March 2020 also was found by his parents in his Suffolk apartment on April 12 of that year. He suffered a heart attack also died four days later at Ipswich Hospital. The Ipswich investigation revealed that he had suffered a brain injury and his parents, who find him at his house in Bramford, agreed to stop treatment regard to the poor prognosis.
He had left a note for the family members.
Suffolk investigator Jacqueline Devonish wrote that she died by suicide and said: "From her own words, it is clear that everything that has happened in connection with these allegations has a feeling of humiliation."
Leah Hearst, director of legal and business affairs at the Royal Opera House, told the court that the indictment views "inappropriate physical contact during exercise and other conditions, sexual behavior outside the workplace, as an inappropriate choice [and] wrong for casting." " Becomes...
"There are also allegations of drug use," he said. Mr. Scarlett has taught at the Royal Ballet School since the age of 11, joined the Royal Opera as a dancer in 2005, and became its artist at the Residenz in 2012.
The press wrongly stated this month that the allegations were related to children, said Ms. Hearst. At the same time, a statement from the Royal Opera House clarified that "there are no questions about the students of the Royal Ballet School."
Further charges were filed via the irregularities hotline, he said in the investigation. Before disciplinary proceedings began, he said that Scarlett contacted the Royal Opera House through her lawyer and said she wanted to leave. "It's been a difficult process on all sides," he said, adding that help had been offered to Scarlett.
Deborah Scarlett, Liam's mother, said they spoke about the allegations a
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