Violin teacher Henry Stayt-Mackey has been convicted of sexually molesting a young girl a dozen times while giving her lessons at his family home in Redmarley.

Stayt-Mackey, 23, insisted all the girl's allegations were untrue but at the end of a three-day trial the jury found him guilty of all 12 charges by a majority of 10-2.

Judge William Hart bailed Stayt-Mackey until July 14 for a pre-sentence report to be prepared. He told Stayt-Mackey he had not yet considered what the appropriate sentence would be.

The jury had been told that the girl, now aged 15 and from Ledbury, was aged between seven and nine when Stayt-Mackey molested her while she was playing her violin.

He also hit her once with a ruler, she alleged.

Stayt-Mackey, 23, committed the offences at his parents' home at The Old Police Station, Redmarley. He now lives in Osbourn Road, Weston-super-Mare.

At the start of the trial he had pleaded not guilty to seven charges of indecent assault on the girl between September 2003 and April 2004 and five charges of sexual assault on her between April 2004 and January 2005.

Prosecutor Nick O'Brien said at the start of the trial: "We say that constantly, and on virtually every occasion when there was a music lesson, he touched her inappropriately in a sexual manner.

"He was about 16 himself at the time of the offences. He gave her music lessons and we say when no-one else was about he repeatedly touched her sexually."

The offences happened, he said, in a building in the grounds of the family home known as The School House.

In the summer of 2008 the girl confided in a friend and told her what had gone on. Later she told an adult at a youth club and police were called and Stayt-Mackey was arrested.

He denied the allegations from the outset.

It emerged during the trial that another girl had made similar allegations against Stayt-Mackey in 2004/5 but they had never been proceeded with.

The jury also heard that the police had offered Stayt-Mackey a caution if he admitted the current offences but he rejected the chance to avoid prosecution and trial by accepting his guilt.

Members of his family, including his two brothers George, 22, and William, 20, were in court and reacted with dismay as the jury returned its verdicts after a retirement of about four hours.