It appears that all assault charges against Christian Bale have been dropped, and no further investigations will take place. We get the following scoop from CNN:
Batman star Christian Bale will not face charges relating to an alleged assault last month on his mother and sister, prosecutors said Thursday, suggesting their decision was based in part on the family members’ wishes. Christian Bale’s mother accused him of assault the night before the London premiere of “Dark Knight.”
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to afford a “realistic prospect of conviction,” and ordered police not to take any further action.
The service said in a statement that while it “treats all incidents which take place in a domestic context seriously, it is important that the views of complainants are also taken into account when making decisions in such cases.”
Well this is good news indeed. When I first heard the accusations I had images of Bale hitting his family members with a pipe. He doesn’t look like the kind of guy that would do such a thing, so I was certainly thrown for a loop. Cooler heads on the boards suggested that perhaps it was just verbal assault, but we were in the dark.
Gladly the incident has rolled over, Bale and his family wisely kept mum on the issue, and now the news will fade fast into oblivion.
