Zev Porat

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

81 Year Old British Actor Rapes 15 Year Old

Bill Roache has played the part of Ken Barlow since 1960

Coronation Street actor Bill Roache has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 15-year-old girl.

Soap star Roache, 81, was arrested by police at his home in Wilmslow, near Manchester, accused of sexual assault of a teenage girl in 1967 in Haslingden, Lancashire. Police have searched his  home.

Roache has played the part of Ken Barlow in Britian's most popular and longest-running TV soap for 53 years. He is the world's longest-serving television actor in a continuous role.

Lancashire Police said: "An 81-year-old man from Wilmslow in Cheshire has been arrested by Lancashire constabulary on suspicion of rape.

"The man will be interviewed at a police station in Lancashire.

"The offences are alleged to have been committed in Haslingden between April and July 1967 and to involve a girl aged 15 years.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/463279/20130501/ken-barlow-bill-roach-earrested-rape-sexual.htm

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