Actor charged with sex offences
ACTOR Craig McLachlan has been charged with indecent assault and other offences.
Victoria Police said a 53year-old NSW man had been charged with one count of common law assault, eight counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted indecent assault.
He was charged on summons to appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court on February 8.
McLachlan sued the ABC and Fairfax Media last year after they published allegations of harassment from female performers who worked with him during the theatre production of The Rocky Horror Show. A trial was due to start on February 4.
Since the publications, McLachlan has become reclusive and his acting career has been effectively destroyed, his legal team said in May.
McLachlan, who won the Gold Logie in 1990 for being the most popular personality on Australian TV, become a household name after playing the loveable larrikin Henry Ramsay in the TV show Neighbours alongside pop icon Kylie Minogue.
More recently he has starred in the ABC TV show The Doctor Blake Mysteries.
In December, he had a minor win in his defamation case, after a judge rejected a bid to include three new complaints about his time on TV series The Doctor Blake Mysteries.