Stephen Tompkinson is dealing with a court docket trial after being accused of ‘grievous bodily hurt’, it’s been reported.
It’s been claimed that the actor – best-known for starring in TV exhibits together with Grafters, Wild at Coronary heart and Drop the Lifeless Donkey – triggered a person to undergo a double cranium fracture.
Tompkinson, 56, has denied the cost.
The alleged incident is claimed to have occurred in Could final 12 months outdoors a home the place the actor was residing in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside.
The utmost sentence for grievous bodily hurt is 5 years’ custody if convicted, the Sentencing Council for England and Wales states.
In accordance with The Solar, the alleged sufferer was left with a double cranium fracture and was unable to work, having reportedly not been capable of recall a lot of what occurred.
A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed to Metro.co.uk that the actor confronted ‘a single cost of inflicting grievous bodily hurt’ in entrance of magistrates on Wednesday August 10.
‘Stephen Tompkinson, aged 56, of Beech Grove, Whitley Bay appeared earlier than Newcastle Magistrates’ Court docket on Wednesday tenth August to face a single cost of Inflicting Grievous Bodily Hurt,’ they stated in a press release.
‘He pleaded not responsible to the cost and can subsequent seem at Newcastle Crown Court docket on Wednesday seventh September.’
Tompkinson was requested to touch upon the case by The Solar outdoors his flat in Tynemouth, North Tyneside, to which he replied: ‘No thanks.’
Prosecutors have reportedly claimed that The Bay star ‘unlawfully and maliciously inflicted grievous bodily hurt’.
From 1996 to 1998, the actor performed the position of Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel, earlier than taking part in Trevor Purvis in Grafters for a 12 months.
He went on to star in DCI Banks for six years, additionally showing within the movies Brassed Off and Resort Splendide.
In 2021, he starred within the second collection of The Bay, taking part in the position of Stephen Marshbrook, who’s murdered in entrance of his son in mysterious circumstances.
He just lately starred in a stage adaptation of Educating Rita, performing reverse his real-life accomplice Jess Johnson.
Metro.co.uk has contacted the Crown Prosecution Service and representatives for Stephen Tompkinson for remark.
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