John Alford, whose real name was John Shannon, the former Grange Hill and London's Burning actor, was found dead at HMP Bure near Norwich on Friday, 13 March, at the age of 54, two months after he was jailed for sex offences involving two teenage girls.
Alford had been sentenced in January to eight years and six months after being convicted at St Albans Crown Court over offences involving girls aged 14 and 15. Prosecutors said the incidents followed a night of drinking in April 2022 before the girls ended up at a Hertfordshire house where Alford was staying with a friend. He had insisted after the verdict that the jury got it 'wrong', but he died having served only a small part of that sentence.
