Tina O’Brien has been ‘cleared’ after being caught up in shocking brawl involving teenage girls outside her £1m house, according to a new report.
The Coronation Street actress, 40, was seen having her hair pulled and being punched during the fight on March 15 outside her £1 million home in upmarket Bramhall, Greater Manchester.
Tina, who plays Sarah Barlow on the popular soap, was trying to defend her home from an unprovoked attack, with neighbours saying rival groups of girls ‘pre-arranged’ the fight outside.
In an update on Thursday, Police are said to have concluded that the soapstar was ‘acting in self-defence.’
A source told The Sun: ‘Police have concluded Tina acted in self-defence and hasn’t done anything wrong. Her version has always been she was defending her home and her family, and that appears to have been accepted.’
Tina O’Brien has been ‘cleared’ after being caught up in shocking brawl involving teenage girls outside her £1m house, according to a new report (pictured in June 2023)
The Coronation Street actress, 40, was seen having her hair pulled and being punched during the fight on March 15 outside her £1 million home in upmarket Bramhall, Greater Manchester
They added: ‘Tina is also tiny and not an aggressive person so is not the kind to be fighting in the street usually. These girls came to her road and to her house, and that’s the only reason she got involved.
‘She thinks they were looking for trouble and — although it was not a good look — in a way she did the right thing.’
MailOnline has contacted Tina’s representatives for comment.
The actress ran out of her house as a brawl broke out on her quiet street at around 8pm on Friday, March 15.
At the start of the footage obtained by The Sun, Tina, who was wearing a black and white striped top and pink jogging bottoms, can be seen trying to calm tensions between two female youths.
One can be heard saying: ‘You’ve touched my mum.’
Tina can be heard urging one of the girls to release their hold on the other, saying: ‘Let go of her…. stop. Let go of her, I just said stop. Let go of her.’
The footage goes on to show the teenage girls kicking each other, and then Tina who wades in to break up the fight.
The pair are seen wrestling with each other and with Tina, who briefly gets the girl in a headlock.
The mother-of-two lives in a quiet cul-de-sac with her husband Adam Crofts, daughter Scarlett and son Beau (pictured together) and was trying to defend her home
Tina first appeared on Coronation Street in 1999 and since then had two stints playing the character Sarah Barlow (pictured here with Helen Worth playing Gail Platt)
The girls are seen getting her hair pulled and being punched.
A girl with blonde hair then gets involved shouting ‘who the f*** do you [think you] actually are, touching my mum!’
This then sparks another wrestling match between the two teens, with the Coronation Street star caught in the middle.
The footage then cuts out and when it restarts shows a melee involving the actress and three girls.
A source told The Sun in the days after the brawl: ‘Tina went straight to meet her Corrie bosses this morning.
‘She told them she was the victim here, and they have accepted that. They also think the incident has traumatised her so have been very sympathetic.’
The source said the actress, who has also appeared in Waterloo Road and Strictly Come Dancing, had been trying to ‘break things up’.
They said: ‘Watching her on Coronation Street, you wouldn’t think in a million years she’d get involved in something like this, especially in such a public place.’
They added that Tina, who has won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards twice, was ‘defending herself’.
‘Tina has been plagued by problems near her house and, on this occasion, came out to try to deal with it,’ the source said.
‘Some girls travelled to her road and were close to her house so she felt she was defending herself and her home.’
A spokesperson for the actress told The Sun: ‘Tina was the victim of an unprovoked incident outside her home which she has reported to the police.’
In addition to the mother-of-two contacting the police, a relative of one of the children is also believed to have got in touch with officers.
The soap-star is now living in fear of reprisals after the brawl and is increasing security around the home she shares with her husband Adam Crofts – a personal trainer – and their two children.
A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said at the time: ‘Officers are investigating reports of an assault in Stockport between 8pm and 9pm on 15 March.’
A spokesperson for Tina (pictured) said the Coronation Street actress had reported the incident to the police
The mother of one of the teen girls involved in the fight claimed the group had been looking for trouble after a fall-out over a boy. She also claimed that Tina had defended her daughter.
She said: ‘Tina has been pretty brave in stepping in. Tina is only little herself and she was defending my daughter, so I am extremely grateful to her.
‘You can hear in her voice on the video that she is frightened. This is also not like her, and she is a really good person.
‘I have thanked her and would have done the same if it was my house.’
Despite claims by the actress that he street has been plagued by anti-social behaviour, neighbours of the Coronation Street star have told of their shock after the actress was attacked.
They claim the star’s home has not been targeted by anti-social behaviour yobs in the past with some believing rival girls struck during a pre-arranged fight.
Neighbour Derek Crookes, 71, said: ‘It was a real surprise when I saw the video. Tina’s lovely and there’s been no trouble here, certainly not girls or lads targeting her house.
‘It’s very quiet here, that’s one of the attractions of living here. We don’t have this sort of trouble such as fighting in the street.’
There is no suggestion Ms O’Brien had any role in organising the fight.
Another neighbour said: ‘It’s shocking to see Tina scraping as there’s been no trouble with teenagers here in the past.
‘The rumour is that these girls are from a rougher part of Stockport. It must have been an organised fight.’
A source told The Sun that the actress, who has also appeared in Waterloo Road and Strictly Come Dancing, had been trying to ‘break things up’ when the teenagers turned on her
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