CORONATION Avenue star Louis Emerick Grant is now working in a charity store as he carries out his group service after he ran over two schoolgirls in a horrific accident.
The actor – who performed Mike Thornberry on the ITV cleaning soap – was spared jail after he admitted inflicting critical damage.
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Louis, 63, was handed a 26 week jail sentence suspended for 12 months and an 18 month driving ban.
He was additionally ordered to pay prices totalling £274 and perform 200 hours unpaid work.
Louis – who additionally starred in Brookside as Mick Johnson – took to social media to beg his followers to assist the store.
He posted an image of him sporting a purple volunteer lanyard and holding a guide on the market,
The cleaning soap star shared the picture on his X account, previously referred to as Twitter, writing: “I could have a narrative to inform about this… very quickly.”
Final week he took to social media and advised followers: “I do a pair days per week at Scope, it’s opened my eyes to what a fab job they and different charity outlets do!
“Fab employees, Mathew, Andreà, Gayle, exhibiting me the ropes.
“Drop in say hello and spend cash, after all, nice bargains available.”
The 12-year-old women have been crossing the highway in Wallasey, Merseyside, when Louis ploughed into them.
One suffered a damaged leg within the crash whereas the opposite was left with a fractured leg and ankle, a damaged jaw and tooth.
Wirral Magistrates’ Courtroom heard how the ladies, who can’t be named for authorized causes, each suffered “life altering accidents” after Johnson ran them over final yr.
Talking after the listening to, Louis advised of his aid that the ladies survived the smash.
He stated: “God will need to have been trying over us that day.”
Requested how would have felt if the ladies had not recovered from their accidents, he stated: “God is aware of my life would have been over. I’d have been destroyed.”
Louis stated after his sentencing the incident had been “horrific” as he expressed his regret.
He added: “I don’t understand how I may have lived with myself if certainly one of them had died.”
The court docket heard Grant was not rushing and didn’t take a look at constructive for drink and medicines.
He stated: “I feel the solar was in my eyes and that was it. I known as 999.”
The actor described how he had been in common contact with each households after the crash.
He stated: “I organised a visit to the panto for one of many women and her household. The opposite woman couldn’t make it in order that was fantastic. The households have been fantastic with me.”
Wirral Magistrates’ Courtroom was advised by the mum of the older woman that she nonetheless has nightmares following the crash.
She stated that signing a consent type for her daughter’s leg to be amputated if essential “was one of many hardest issues I’ve ever finished”.
The mum added: “The final eight months have been horrendous.”
The ladies had been crossing the highway to go to the store on October 2 when the horror unfolded.
The court docket was advised each women have been unable to return to highschool for a number of months and might want to bear additional surgical procedure for his or her accidents.
Grant was breathalysed on the scene however there was no proof he had taken drink or medicine or that he was utilizing his telephone on the time of the crash.
The actor was not seen slowing down or braking on the method to the bend and later blamed the solar for obscuring his imaginative and prescient.
Louis performed cabbie Mick on Brookside from 1989 to 2001.
He additionally had roles in Casualty, Final of the Summer season wine and Coronation Avenue, the place he performed Mike Thornberry.
The star just lately appeared in Netflix’s mini-series Cleopatra
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