Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell has been cleared of raping a child.

[right-then-petal]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-24032449

[millielilac]

That is good news for the actor .....but it will be hard for him to pick up the threads of his old life ....I wish him luck.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Just goes to show that the man should remain anonymous the same as the woman until he has been found guilty, how on earth is he going to live that down now, By the way I am a woman and not a fan of his.

[wizilizi]

I don't watch soaps, but I think it's wrong to put someone through the mill in public like that.  I've no idea who the guy is, but I did see him on the BBC news yesterday, & said to OH that poor guy looks wrecked 😞

[right-then-petal]

a couple of peeps have been detained after the girl was identified on twitter

[ed_blackadder_1]

That's not good if she is a child, either no matter what she has done.

[****merlin*****]

allegations were made from this girl in 2011 and there was not enough evidence, and he wasnt arrested, she then had new evidence a while later and this case was founded on that. Seems a bit weird there was "fresh" evidence a year later, enough to bring it to court. there was never evidence of any abuse found

no names should have been released until the case was heard

[chickengrandma-2008]

These cases always leave me wondering if he was found innocent because he was,  or found innocent when in fact he was guilty.?  I wonder if he'll be allowed back on Corrie? 

[****merlin*****]

apparently he is going back

he was arrested on 12 counts, and was found not guilty on all of them

does not guilty mean innocent?

[wizilizi]

I guess it means that the jury found him to be innocent

Only the accused truly knows 

[chickengrandma-2008]

Yes, that's what I mean wizi, jurys make mistakes, that's one of the reasons why they can't bring back hanging. 

[****merlin*****]

is it as cut and dried as that though?

in THEORY

he could be found not guilty

only because his guilt cannot be proved

under that, he is automatically declared innocent

that is why we have that not proven verdict in scotland

[chickengrandma-2008]

That's right, it's not as cut and dried as that, you also have the fact that he's in Coronation street!  It might sway someone's judgement even if they don't  realise it?

[****merlin*****]

wouldnt he have been found guilty then?

crimes against acting?

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[rose2008-2008]

All these people being brought up about this. Its all started with the Jimmy Savile story. I thought that girls mother who accused that Michael Le Vell might have been an ex girfriend (as he had affairs) with an axe to grind but they never said. Unless it was and they kept it quiet. Why would she say that then???. It shows that some do lie but why do this?, there must have been something going on with the mother and him in some way surely. Or along those lines?. I really do not know.