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Tamara Davison

London's Burning actor John Alford placed winning bet on horse before he was found dead in his prison cell

Former London’s Burning actor John Alford outside St Albans Magistrates’ Court (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

John Alford, the disgraced London’s Burning and Grange Hill actor who died in prison last week, reportedly placed a winning bet on a horse just hours before his death.

Alford, 54, who had been serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for a series of sexual assaults involving teenage girls in 2022, was found dead at HMP Bure on March 13.

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