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London's Burning actor John Alford jailed for sexually assaulting girls aged 14 and 15
John Alford was convicted of multiple sexual offences against two teenage girls at a Hertfordshire party and sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison.
- On Wednesday, John Alford, the former actor John Shannon, was jailed for eight-and-a-half years after conviction for sexually assaulting two teenage girls, aged 14 and 15, at St Albans Crown Court.
- At a party in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, all offences happened at the home of a third girl's father, a friend of Alford, involving two teenage victims.
- Alford bought about 250 from a petrol station, including a bottle of vodka the victims drank, with assaults in the garden, downstairs toilet, and on a living-room sofa.
- Recorder Caroline Overton said the victim impact statements described the "significant and ongoing impact of your offending on their lives," and the court made restraining and sexual harm prevention orders.
- His defence argued the girls intended to extort him and pointed to no DNA links, with Alford having a 1999 drugs conviction and receiving 500,000 from News of the World.
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Former London series actor Burning and Grange Hill, John Alford, was sentenced for eight and a half years in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting two teenagers.
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