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Ballet girl says race case left her feeling ‘violated’

November 8, 2013 06:00
Genevieve Huss: gave evidence for four hours

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Marcus Dysch,

Marcus Dysch

2 min read

The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor said she was left “haunted” after her ballet teacher made an antisemitic remark during a class.

Genevieve Huss was studying at a prestigious Scottish ballet school when Jonathan Barton told her and fellow dancers: “You look like a bunch of Jews lining up waiting to be shot in the rain.”

Speaking this week for the first time about her experience, Ms Huss said she had been left depressed and traumatised by the three-year criminal investigation into the teacher’s comment.

Mr Barton was charged with racial harassment, but his trial collapsed last week after the court decided he had no case to answer, despite finding that the comment had been “deplorable and ill-considered”.