Bruno Langley will be on the sex offenders’ register for five years after he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault.
The former ‘Coronation Street’ star – who was sacked from the soap last month after the shocking allegations came to light – has managed to swerve jail after he admitted to groping two women – one in her 30s and another in her 20s – at the music event Band on the Wall in Manchester’s Northern Quarter on September 30, but he has been handed a 12-month community order, ordered to sign the register and pay his two victims £250 in compensation each.
The community order subjects the 34-year-old actor to 40 days of rehabilitation activity and a 12-week electronically monitored curfew after he admitted to the judge that he had a problem with alcohol.
Judge Hadfield told the court that Bruno had expressed remorse for his actions and doubts he’ll work in showbiz again.
He told him: "I suspect it will be difficult for you to obtain employment in that industry again."
Bruno has since said in a statement: "I sincerely apologise to the people involved and affected by my disgraceful behaviour on the evening of 30th September.
"I have absolutely no memory of what happened because of excessive alcohol consumption and it was for this reason that I behaved completely out of character. I take full responsibility for my actions that night.
"Since this incident I have been dealing with, and confronting some personal issues that I have never addressed, and I am also getting help for an alcohol problem, so that this does not ever happen again."
Bruno pleaded guilty after the judge heard how he grabbed his first victim by her crotch – without her consent – after she collected her coat from the cloakroom at around 1am at the music festival.
The victim told police that she thought about hitting the actor after he groped her over her clothes but she was too "shocked and angry" to act on her emotions and, in turn, just asked Bruno whether he "did that on purpose?", before reporting the incident to police.
Prosecutor Karen Saffman told the court that Bruno was "clearly intoxicated."
The second victim told police that she too had been "forcefully touched" in an "intimate place" by the star "for a couple of seconds" before she managed to push him off.
Bruno’s defence solicitor Mr Hancock told the court that Bruno has no previous convictions and had been "of good character" before he admitted to the sex charges.
He described it as an "isolated incident" which was "alcohol-fuelled" and assured the judge that his client was not a "serial groper" and was "clearly a man who has health issues."
Bruno Langley signs sex offenders’ register
