Coronations Street actor William Roache sent signed photo after ‘attack’

Coronation Street star William Roache indecently assaulted a 14-year-old girl in the men’s toilet at the Granada TV studios in Manchester and then sent her a signed photo, a court has heard.

Coronations Street actor William Roache sent signed photo after ‘attack’

Sending the letter “was a sort of grooming as we nowadays know it,” said prosecutor Anne Whyte.

Roache “took full advantage of his stardom” to sexually abuse five young girls, a jury heard.

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