Fed:Canberra teacher pleads not guilty to having sex with student

AAP General News (Australia)
04-14-2009
Fed:Canberra teacher pleads not guilty to having sex with student

A Canberra teacher's denied having sex with a 15-year-old female student .. at a court
hearing today.

DEREK SIDDON .. a former music teacher at Canberra's Daramalan College .. is facing
10 counts of having sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16 after charges
against him were upgraded.

The offences are alleged to have been committed in 2005.

The 31 year old pleaded not guilty to all charges at an arraignment hearing in the
ACT Supreme Court today.

A trial's due to start in August.

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KEYWORD: SIDDON (CANBERRA)

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