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| rdfs:comment | - William's first wife Anna Cropper, second wife Sara Roache, and sons Linus and James Roache have all appeared in Coronation Street. He won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Soap Awards in 2000, and was awarded the Member of the British Empire the following year. Sara, his second wife of more than 30 years, died suddenly in February 2009. Bill's real life son James portrayed him in the 2010 drama The Road to Coronation Street, documenting his father's work on the early days on the programme.
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| abstract | - William's first wife Anna Cropper, second wife Sara Roache, and sons Linus and James Roache have all appeared in Coronation Street. He won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Soap Awards in 2000, and was awarded the Member of the British Empire the following year. Sara, his second wife of more than 30 years, died suddenly in February 2009. On 1st May 2013, the actor was arrested on a charge of raping a fifteen-year old girl in 1967 and a further charge followed soon after. He was immediately suspended from the programme and all scenes in which he appeared were edited out of episodes which had been recorded but not yet transmitted. On 6th June a further five charges were made against him. After initial hearings, he appeared in court on 2nd September where he pleaded not guilty to all the charges and a trial began at Preston Crown Court on 14th January 2014. On 27th January, the jury were directed to acquit the actor on one of the charges due to insufficient evidence and on 6th February the jury found him not guilty of all the remaining charges. During the trial, Anne Kirkbride, Chris Gascoyne and Helen Worth all gave evidence on his behalf. Two days after his acquittal ITV announced that Roache would be returning to the show and he began filming in June 2014 with his first episode in over a year being Episode 8440 (4th August 2014). His absence within the storylines was explained as being due to looking after his sick grandson Adam Barlow in Canada. Bill's real life son James portrayed him in the 2010 drama The Road to Coronation Street, documenting his father's work on the early days on the programme.
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