Former Corrie star abused me for years, says wife
The wife of former 'Coronation Street' star Bruce Jones told a court today he subjected her to years of drink-fuelled physical and emotional abuse.
Jones (aged 57), who played Les Battersby in the ITV1 soap, is accused at Mold Crown Court of trying to crash the couple’s car as they travelled at high speed along a busy road.
Sandra Jones (aged 59) who has been married to the actor for 26 years, said he was drunk in the passenger seat of their Mercedes M Class when he became angry and grabbed the steering wheel and jerked it up and down, causing the car to swerve dangerously.
Mrs Jones, who was driving the car along the A55 dual carriageway near Holywell, in Flintshire, North Wales, last August, managed to maintain control of the vehicle and bring it to a stop at a nearby pub.
However, as she got out of the vehicle, the prosecution say Jones assaulted her by grabbing hold of her wrist.
Jones, of Knutsford Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, is on trial under his real name Ian Roy Jones and denies dangerous driving and common assault.
He played Weatherfield layabout Les for 10 years until 2007.
The jury of six men and six women were earlier warned by trial judge Recorder Simon Medland to put out of their mind any Les Battersby “preconceptions” they may have.
He said: “You are trying an individual and not the character Les Battersby, some of whose attributes are not very pleasant.”
