The ex-husband of a former ITV soap actress was tragically killed in an accidental fire in his hotel room shortly after being released from prison, caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette.
Tony Lane-Roberts - who was once married to the former Crossroads actress Cindy Marshall-Day - was pronounced dead at the Clamart Hotel in Scunthorpe on April 24, 2019 after a fire was started with a plastic waste bin lit from a discarded cigarette.
The fire quickly spread to the his entire hotel room. At the time of his death, he had been released from prison just weeks earlier for breaching non-molestation orders against Ms Marshall-Day.