Roache bailed on sex charges
Coronation Street actor Bill Roache has been bailed on charges of rape and indecent assault to appear at court again on 2nd September when he will enter formal pleas. He denies the charges.
Bill Roache bailed until September over assault charges
Coronation Street actor Bill Roache has been bailed to appear at court again on 2nd September when he will enter formal pleas.
The 81-year-old actor was charged in May with two counts of raping a 15-year-old girl in east Lancashire in 1967, and last week he faced fresh charges of five indecent assaults involving four girls aged between 11 or 12 and 16.
Roache appeared today for a five-minute preliminary hearing at Preston Crown Court. His trial date is set for 13th January.
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