An 81-year-old actor of the English series was arrested for rape of a 15-year-old girl

In the UK, on ​​May 1, a sensational arrest of the star of the popular opera "Coronations Street" Bill Rouch, the star of the soap opera, took place. He was arrested on charges of raping a 15-year-old girl back in 1967.

According to The Daily Mail , an 81-year-old actor who for five decades played the role of a respectable moralist Ken Barlow in the series, was detained by the police during breakfast in his luxurious house in Wilmlow, County Cheshire.

- a colleague of Rouch on the "Coronations Street" is suspected of a whole series of rape of children
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Currently, the roof is interrogated in the police station. As it is assumed, criminal actions against a minor were carried out by him in the town of Haslingen between April and July 1967. There are no other details yet.

ROUCH caused the fire of criticism after his many statements that people should not rush to condemn pedophiles, and sometimes it is necessary to "completely forgive" them. Receiving the Order of the British Empire in 2001, he called for the anonymity of the persons accused of pedophile crimes before they were officially convicted. In March, speaking in the New Zealand television show, Rouch condemned public attacks on stars that were accused of sexual crimes: “If you are accused, you are innocent until the opposite is proved, but if you are a star, you are immediately nailed to a shameful pillar,” he said, noting that this is wrong.

Before Rokha in the UK, a whole galaxy of celebrities suspected of committing sexual crimes, including many years ago, has recently been interrogated or arrested.

So, in October last year, Rocker Gary Glitter was arrested for pedophilia. In November last year, and then again in April of this year, comedian Freddie Starr, accused of harassment of a 14-year-old girl in a locker room, was arrested. Former DJ Radio 1 Dave Lee Travis was arrested in November and then again in March on suspicion of sexual crimes, which, according to him, are not related to children. The comedian and TV presenter Jim Davidson was arrested in January at suspicion of rape. In November and March, the 82-year-old Conferi Rolf Harris was allegedly called on the interrogation of similar accusations. His lawyers tried to prevent this information from getting into the press, but they did not succeed. In addition, publicist Max Clifford was arrested in December, and last week he was accused of 11 points in the case of depraved actions. He denies all accusations.

All these celebrities were arrested as part of the Yewtree police operation , which began with the scandalous case of DJ Jimmy Savvil . Although the arrest of Roach is not yet officially attributed to this operation.

The Roch, who played Barlow, starting from the very first episode of “coronation”, is considered the longest -playing serial actor in the world, but now it seems to be not released again to the set.

The British television series "Coronations Street" , created by director Tony Warren and Granada Television, started on December 9, 1960. Over the half -century history, over 7,000 episodes were shot.

Recall that probably the most loud scandal with a punishment for rape of a minor, which occurred many years ago, broke out in 2009, when director Roman Polanski was arrested in the United States. He was accused of raping Samantha Gamer in the late 1970s.