whether the allegation was true or false but I do know that for many people a false accusation is enough to provoke suicide as there seems little or no chance of proving innocence. This is what we have to stop. "Believe the victim" is an appalling attitude for police to take.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041426...ence-allegation.html

His employer clearly took the same view as the police, as he was dismissed.

Some comments from under that article:

It seems more and teachers are being targeted by savvy pupils. And instead of supporting the attacked teachers, senior management can't wait to throw them under the metaphorical bus. Something similar happened at the inner city school my wife was deputy head of at the time. A strapping 6 foot tall 16 year old approached a diminutive Sri Lankan teacher. He bent down in front of her to do his shoe laces up, and as he stood he stuck his hand up her skirt and then down inside her underwear, and molested her. Horrified, she pushed him off. That was seen, but not the assault by the student. Senior management initially didn't believe her, and she only kept her job because he did it to another female teacher a short while later. In my day the teacher would have automatically been believed.

Who'd be a male teacher today, it's just not worth it.

RIP David. He died an innocent man. Allegations are just that. People have no idea of the distress caused by being accused of such crimes, even innocent men take their own lives due to the stigma and repuational damage. An allegation alone is enough to ruin someone's life and all accused deserve anonymity unless proven guilty.
A teacher at a state secondary school in a town close to the one where I went to school was falsely accused years ago of groping by a pupil, backed up by her mother. He was suspended pending investigation and eventually reinstated but it was an extremely stressful time for him and his family and if I remember correctly he left teaching. Heard all this from a relative who was a teacher at a different school.