Coronation Street actor Eric Potts avoids jail over child abuse charges

Eric Potts has avoided jail after admitting to child offence charges (Picture: FARRELL / BACKGRID)

Eric Potts has avoided jail time after pleading guilty to child sex offences but will be on the sex offenders register.

The Coronation Street actor, 61, was arrested in August after Lancashire Police found an internet user had uploaded an ‘indecent video of a child’ to a file-sharing website.

Police raided his home of 20 years in Bacup, Lancashire, where a total of 83 videos and pictures were discovered on his iPad.

He was charged with three offences of making indecent images of a child and three offences of distribu...