Actor Stephen Tompkinson will seem at Newcastle Crown Court going through a single cost of inflicting grievous bodily hurt, the Crown Prosecution Service has mentioned.
The 56-year-old, who has appeared in a string of prime TV collection during the last three many years, is going through a trial after denying the allegation at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on 10 August.
He might be finest identified for taking part in Alan Banks in DCI Banks and was additionally in Grafters, In Deep, Wild At Heart and Trollied, after his breakthrough position in Drop The Dead Donkey within the Nineteen Nineties.
A press release from the Crown Prosecution Service mentioned: “Stephen Tompkinson, aged 56, of Whitley Bay, appeared before Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday August 10 to face a single charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm.
“He pleaded not responsible to the cost and can subsequent seem at Newcastle Crown Court on Wednesday September 7.”
Tompkinson turned broadly identified after starring as Father Peter Clifford in 1996’s Ballykissangel, in the identical yr as he appeared in hit movie Brassed Off as character Phil.
Other notable TV credit embody Minder, New Tricks, Ted And Alice and the kids’s present Little Red Tractor.
He is because of characteristic in ITV drama The Long Shadow about Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe later this yr.
The actor, who just lately starred in a stage adaptation of Educating Rita as Frank Bryant, was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, in October 1965.
PA has requested his representatives to remark.
Source: information.sky.com”