John Alford lands in legal trouble over sexual assault

John Alford, former London’s Burning actor, has been charged guilty of sexual assault.

The 53-year-old was accused was assaulting a 14-year-old and 15-year-old girl during a party at a friend’s home, a property claimed to be in Hertfordshire, with four counts of sexual activity with the younger girl and charges of sexual assault and assault by penetration relating to the second teenager.

A jury at St Albans Crown Court convicted Alford of all charges after a week-long trial and more than 13 hours of deliberations.

Alford put his head in his hand and shouted “Wrong, I didn’t do this” as the verdicts were read out in court.

Jurors heard that the defendant, Alford, sexually assaulted the girls while they were drunk after a night out at the pub.

The former actor, who appeared in the BBC drama Grange Hill, bought some £250 worth of food, alcohol and cigarettes from a nearby petrol station in the early hours of the morning, including a bottle of vodka which the victims subsequently drank.

Alford then had sexual intercourse with the 14-year-old girl in the garden of the home and later in a downstairs toilet, and inappropriately touched the 15-year-old girl as she lay half asleep on the living room sofa. All of the offences took place at the home of a third girl whose father was friends with John Alford.