Stephanie Beacham, 75, ‘confronted by armed burglar through raid’

Dynasty actress Stephanie Beacham came confront to face with a hammer-wielding burglar for the duration of a terrifying split-in, a court listened to. 

The Coronation Street star, 75, was allegedly confronted by an intruder at her £750,000 dwelling in Bayswater, West London, on September 25 final yr. 

Beacham, who has also played Sable Colby in The Colbys and Dynasty, experienced her purse and mobile cellphone stolen alongside with jewellery, keys and a cheque ebook, a court docket read on December 21.

Stephanie Beacham, 75, was confronted by an intruder at her £750,000 household in Bayswater, West London , on September 25, a courtroom heard 

David Wilson, 56, has been billed with aggravated burglary and robbery and appeared at Southwark Crown Court docket in December. He denies the charges.

The charge statements he went into Beacham’s house ‘as a trespasser’ and had ‘a weapon of offence, particularly a hammer’. 

All through a quick courtroom listening to about the case, Prosecutor Gregor McKinley explained the target as susceptible. 

He also explained the actress was an ‘elderly victim’ and asked the decide to established the date of the demo for future month. 

Beacham is predicted to appear as a witness.  

Wilson, of no fixed handle, is also accused of breaking into the residence of a pensioner in Sheffield to steal a snooker competitors medal, a mattress and a step ladder. He also denies this offence. 

Judge Nicholas Rimmer remanded the defendant in custody till the next hearing on February 1.

Beacham first took on the role of Martha Fraser in Coronation Road ahead of earning a brief return previous year. 

Beacham located fame taking part in glamorous Sable Colby reverse Joan Collins in 1980s US cleaning soap, Dynasty

The actress appearing in Time 9 of Dynasty, a key time American soap opera 

Speaking final month, the veteran star stated she was delighted to return to Corrie. 

She advised The Mirror: ‘Taking on a part wherever it does not matter what I look like is a pretty interesting thing. It did not make any difference how I was lit or what angle I was shot from. It would make me breathe a sigh of aid and believe, “At past!”

‘The essential detail was actively playing the character as I was taught from the inside of out, relatively than all the concentration getting on the external. Beneath the external packaging, so to speak, I am a completely created and still producing creature with so substantially everyday living experience to deliver to a job.’ 

Beacham said she was searching forward to getting on equivalent roles in the upcoming and isn’t going to program on retiring as it ‘keeps me young’.

She added: ‘I do not imagine actors retire. We just have on until finally we can’t do it any a lot more. Acting, with all its difficulties, keeps me young.’

The Bad Girls star was very last found on the cobbles in 2009 when Martha and former love desire Ken Barlow, performed by Bill Roache, 90, embarked on an affair driving his spouse Deirdre’s back again.

The Negative Girls star was last observed on the cobbles in 2009 when Martha and previous love desire Ken Barlow, played by Invoice Roache, 90, embarked on an affair driving his wife Deirdre’s back again

Beacham to start with took on the function of Martha Fraser in Coronation Avenue just before making a short return past calendar year. She’s witnessed offering an job interview in December  

Beacham’s original stint on Corrie lasted just 5 months but it went down in Corrie folklore.

Martha wooed Ken when dwelling on a barge, acquiring a short while ago break up from her husband, believing Ken was a widower immediately after he advised her the mom of his son Peter experienced handed away.

They bonded around a shared love of literature and immediately after falling for just about every other they sooner or later kissed.

Riddled with guilt, Ken arrived clean about his relationship to Deirdre, sparking Martha’s determination to end their fling.

But the pair nevertheless couldn’t resist each and every other, sooner or later sleeping jointly and meant to go away Weatherfield just before Ken had next views and stayed with Deirdre.