A former Halifax area teacher will not stand trial for a second time on a charge of sexual exploitation.

The prosecution withdrew the charge against Antoine Dominique Fraser today, saying the young woman who had filed the complaint in 2008 was no longer interested in proceeding.

Fraser was fired by the Halifax regional school board in July 2008 after a former student at Cole Harbour District High claimed to have had a sexual relationship with the teacher.

The provincial Education Department took away his teaching licence shortly after that.

Fraser was convicted of the charge by a jury in December 2009 and sentenced the following May to nine months in jail and a year’s probation.

But the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal overturned the conviction in July 2011, finding that Fraser did not receive a fair trial because of ineffective representation by his former lawyer, Lance Scaravelli.