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Grange Hill actor John Alford has died in prison. The 54-year-old - also known as John Shannon - was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison this January for sex offences against children.

John Alford, star of London’s Burning and Grange HIll, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two girls aged 14 and 15.

A former star of London’s Burning engaged in sexual activity with an underage girl in a toilet and sexually assaulted another, a court was told.