Sunday Mirror

Langley cleared on girl, 15

Cops say no crimes committed

- BY PHIL CARDY

SACKED Corrie star Bruno Langley has been cleared over allegation­s he tried to groom an underage girl.

The actor, axed from the soap after admitting two sex attacks, had been reported to police over claims he pestered a 15-year-old. The accusation was made a week after Langley, 34, admitted molesting two women

while drunk in a Manchester club. The girl claimed he approached her in a gym in 2015 and later on social media, saying: “You’re absolutely beautiful. Are you single?”

But Greater Manchester Police said: “On November 6 the National Crime Agency referred a report to GMP that inappropri­ate messages were sent to a girl under 16 in Sale. Detectives carried out enquiries including speaking to her. No crimes were committed.”

It’s not known whether Langley was aware of her age at the time.

A source close to him said yesterday: “He is relieved the matter is over with.”

A court heard last month how the star – who has played gay Todd Grimshaw since 2001 – molested the women at Manchester’s Band on the Wall in October, grabbing them by the crotch.

He got a 12-month community order and curfew and was told to pay £250 to his victims and sign the sex offenders’ register for five years.

Sources say he is being written out of the soap with a storyline in which he hits a policeman and goes on the run.

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