John Alford, former London’s burning actor, has been guilty of sexual assault.
The 53-year-old was accused of assaulting a 14-year-old and 15-year-old girl during a party in a friend’s home, a property that claimed to be in Hertfordshire, with four counts of sexual activity with the younger girl and charges of sexual assault and assault on penetration relating to the other teenager.
A jury at St Alban’s Crown Court convicted Alford for all charges after a week’s long trial and more than 13 hours of considerations.
Alford put his head in his hand and shouted “wrong, I did not do this” when the judgments were read in court.
Jury leader heard that the defendant, Alford, assaulted the sexual girls while they were intoxicated after a night out at the pub.
The former actor who appeared in the BBC drama Grange Hill bought approx. £ 250 value of food, alcohol and cigarettes from a nearby gas station in the early hours in the morning, including a bottle of vodka that the victims subsequently drank.
Alford then had intercourse with the 14-year-old girl in the garden in the home and later in a toilet below, and inappropriately touched the 15-year-old girl as she was half asleep in the living room. All offenses took place at the home of a third girl whose father was friends with John Alford.
