Celebrity Deaths

[NathanR]

RE: Celebrity Deaths
Former actor John Alford, a star of Grange Hill and London's Burning has been found dead in his cell at HMP Bure in Norfolk, he was aged 54.

Originally known for his role as the rebellious first year Robbie Wright in Grange Hill (a role he continued until 1989) his best-known role was in the LWT drama London's Burning where he played firefighter Billy Ray. By 1996 this role had launched his profile so much he launched a career as a pop singer.

He continued this acting role he continued up until 1998 when he was dismissed from the show after supplying cocaine to Mazher Mahmood, an undercover News of the World reporter and convicted of drugs offences in 1999.

At the time of his death, he was serving an 8 year sentence for sexually assaulting two teenage girls.