Jury in Bill Roache trial retires to consider verdicts
The jury in the trial of Coronation Street actor William Roache has retired to consider its verdicts. Roache denies two counts of rape and four counts of indecent assault.
Prosecution: Bill Roache is 'sticking to his script'
Coronation Street star Bill Roache was "sticking to his script" when he said that he did not sexually abuse five young girls, Preston Crown Court heard today.
In her closing speech, prosecutor Anne Whyte QC said: "Well, members of the jury, someone is lying.
"Five complainants have made sexual allegations against William Roache.
"He is emphatic that it just did not happen.....he is lying or literally all of them are."
She went on: "Who, of all the witnesses, is most used to rehearsing what he has to say and sticking to his script?
"Is it someone like (another alleged victim) or is it the actor William Roache, a man who has spent his entire life learning lines and delivering them for public consumption?"
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Coronation Street stars defend 'gentleman' Bill Roache
Coronation Street actor Bill Roache has been defended by some of his co-stars at his trial at Preston Crown Court.
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Bill Roache says he had 'no interest in gratuitous sex'
On his first day of evidence, actor Bill Roache denied all of the allegations against him insisting he had no interest in 'gratuitous sex'
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Alleged Roache victim: 'I blamed myself...I was a kid'
A woman has told the trial of Coronation Street's Bill Roache that the actor raped her on two occasions when she was 15 years old in 1967.