By Joe Middleton For Mailonline
Published: 09:43 GMT, 14 February 2019 | Updated: 13:12 GMT, 14 February 2019
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Danielle Perrett, pictured outside Ipswich Crown Court in January 2018, will have her applications for permission to appeal against conviction in London today
A 'world-famous' harpist jailed for sexually abusing a schoolboy in the 1980s has lost an appeal which would have allowed her to challenge her conviction.
Danielle Perrett, who has performed for the Queen and several prime ministers, was denied at the Court of Appeal in London today, although she could still have her sentence reduced.
Perrett, 59, was handed a prison term of four years and nine months in February last year.
She was sentenced alongside her ex-fiance Richard Barton-Wood, 68, for separately indecently assaulting the boy while he was in his early teens.
They both denied all charges but were convicted following a four-week trial at Ipswich Crown Court in Suffolk.
Perrett, from Alpheton, Suffolk, was found guilty by a jury of six counts of indecent assault.
Barton-Wood, from Wymondham, Norfolk, was found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault and of one count of attempted indecent assault.
He was also sentenced
