William Roach Trial

A woman said Coronation Street star William Roache "pushed her on to a bed" and was "cold and calculated" as he raped her, a jury has heard.

The woman, now 62, said the alleged rapes took place in his two homes in Haslingden, Lancashire, Preston Crown Court heard.

Mr Roache, 81, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, denies two counts of raping a 15-year-old girl in 1967.

He also denies five counts of indecent assault involving four girls.

Those alleged offences involve girls aged 16 or under in Manchester between 1965 and 1971, the court heard.

'Panic stricken'
The jury was shown a video of the alleged rape victim's police interview from March 2013.

In it she told police the actor took her into a bedroom of a bungalow he owned when she was 15 years old.

Court sketch
Mr Roache was allowed to leave the dock and sit next to his lawyer so he could watch the video recording
She said: "I was shocked. There was no warning... I didn't know what to do.

"I can just remember thinking 'God, I just want to get out of here. I didn't know what to make of it, I was just so scared'."

She described the first alleged rape as "cold and calculated".

The woman said: "I didn't fight, but I couldn't push him off.

"He was too heavy for me... It was very uncomfortable but at the time I was just panic stricken. "

"I just wanted to get up. I just wanted to go home... It was very painful. He was lying on top of me he was a lot bigger than me.. I just thought I was never going to get out.

"I thought it was never going to finish," she added.

Mr Roache was given permission to leave the dock and sit next to his lawyer while the recording was played in court so he could view it.

The woman said: "I thought it must be my fault. I didn't know why it had happened. I'd gone round there in all innocence."

'Gullible'
She went on to describe a second rape "a few months" after the first, which she alleges took place at a different cottage owned by Mr Roache in Haslingden.

She said the actor pushed her up against a wall as she thought: "Oh God, I can't believe this."

The woman told the court she did not report the alleged rapes because she blamed herself.

In her police interview, the woman said: "I thought I was to blame, especially the second time."

"I was gullible, I was a kid. I would never have repeated it to anyone," she added.

The woman came forward in the wake of a number of celebrity sex scandals, the jury heard.

She said: "It has started to bother me because there might be other people that this has happened to."

The trial continues.

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So she was raped in his Bungalow, then a few months later went to his second house????

Sure.

And 40+ years ago.

Ridiculous