LONDON (AP) — British actor Micheal Ward was granted bail Thursday after showing at a central London court docket to face prices of rape and sexual assault.
The 27-year-old, who has starred within the Netflix crime drama “Top Boy,” faces two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
The offenses reportedly befell in January 2023. The fees relate to at least one girl.
Ward appeared at Thames Magistrates’ Courtroom the place he confirmed his identify, deal with and date of beginning throughout a brief listening to. He didn’t enter any pleas and was granted conditional bail to subsequent seem at Snaresbrook Crown Courtroom in northeast London on Sept. 25.
His bail situation is to not contact the alleged sufferer.
Ward denied the fees. He beforehand stated in a press release that he has “full faith” his identify shall be cleared in court docket.
Ward has appeared in movies together with “Blue Story,” “The Book of Clarence” and the lately launched American political satire “Eddington,” alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal.
In 2020, he gained the Rising Star award on the British Academy Movie Awards, or BAFTAs. He was nominated for an appearing BAFTA for Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light” and for a BAFTA tv award for the Steve McQueen-directed sequence “Small Axe.”
