DCI Banks actor charged with GBH
Actor Stephen Tompkinson will appear at Newcastle Crown Court charged with a single count of inflicting grievous bodily harm, the Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed.
The 56-year-old, who is best known for starring as Inspector Alan Banks in crime drama series DCI Banks, is facing a trial after denying the allegation at Newcastle Magistrates Court on August 10.
It is believed that the charge follows a late-night incident in May last year outside the house where the star was living in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside.
Tompkinson became a household name after starring as Father Peter Clifford in 1996’s Ballykissangel, in the same year appearing in hit film Brassed Off, with Ewan McGregor.
Other notable TV credits include Drop The Dead Donkey, Wild At Heart, Minder, New Tricks, Grafters and Ted And Alice.
He appeared in ITV’s DCI Banks for six years until the show was axed in 2016.
Tompkinson, who recently starred in a stage adaptation of Educating Rita as Frank Bryant, is due to feature in ITV drama The Long Shadow about Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe later this year.
The actor was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, in October 1965. His representative was contacted for a comment.