Star fined over bar incident

GUILTY...Sean Cernow

ACTOR Sean Cernow hurled a glass at a pub window where he had been at a Christmas party causing £500 of damage.

At present out-of-work, Oldham-born Cernow (39) had been in the Dockyard Bar, Salford Quays, on December 1.

"This was a misjudgement on your part and it is going to prove expensive," magistrates told him before fining him £220 plus costs and compensation totalling £615.

Cernow, of Rockdove Avenue, Manchester, pleaded guilty to criminal damage.

Upset

He told police he had been very upset following the death from cancer of a very close friend.

His lawyer Carl Richmond said Cernow had appeared many times in films and television, among them roles in Prisoners' Wives and as Felix in the period drama The Musketeers, but that at the moment he was employed selling wine over the telephone.

"He is due to appear in an established soap in the near future, which has to be kept secret until April.

"What he did was an aberration on his part after he had been manhandled by doormen," said Mr Richmond.