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[wiggydiggy]

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[Drago]

Oh well, frees up a cell for another deserving resident.

 

[steveindenmark]

Its sad that he had opportunities that many strive for and just wasted them.

I think the chance of him resting in peace is slim.

 

[Drago]

Well, he won't be appointed as ambassador to America now!

 

[Webbo2]

Well to be fair up until 1998 he was still acting regularly and although London's Burning had finished I could imagine him transitioning into a less annoying Danny Dyer type actor at that point.

Because it's only after a drug conviction (secured with the help of a journalist who is later convicted of perverting the cause of justice) that his career dried up and his poor decisions and his descent into criminality began.

You don’t know that, he could have been in to various criminal activities but not caught.
I can’t understand why you are trying to find redeeming features in a convicted sex offender.

 

[Dave7]

You don’t know that, he could have been in to various criminal activities but not caught.
I can’t understand why you are trying to find redeeming features in a convicted sex offender.

TBF.....I personally know a guy that was convicted on the basis of a accusation by a girl. Lost his house, wife and family. Then, just before he went to prison the girl admitted she had made it up.
She gave the reason she did it but I won't put it on here.

 

[HMS_Dave]

The man is Bacon. He made his choices and created victims in his path.

 

[Webbo2]

TBF.....I personally know a guy that was convicted on the basis of a accusation by a girl. Lost his house, wife and family. Then, just before he went to prison the girl admitted she had made it up.
She gave the reason she did it but I won't put it on here.

Yes I’m aware of miss carriages of justice but no one is reporting this as one.
I’m staggered how many of you seem want to see a convicted sex offender as an innocent.
Having worked with many victims of abuse through out my working life. I think some of you need to take a good look at yourselves.

 

[Dave7]

Yes I’m aware of miss carriages of justice but no one is reporting this as one.
I’m staggered how many of you seem want to see a convicted sex offender as an innocent .

I think some of you need to take a good look at yourselves.

Would you mind not including me in your judgement. And certainly do not accuse me of wanting to see a sex offender as innocent.
Re read my post.......nowhere do I suggest what you accuse.

 

[Drago]

I'm surprised he wasn't made a life peer.

 

[Webbo2]

Would you mind not including me in your judgement. And certainly do not accuse me of wanting to see a sex offender as innocent.
Re read my post.......nowhere do I suggest what you accuse.

Your post starts TBF and then you mention someone was falsely accused. Which I felt was implying he too might be falsely accused.
However if that was not the case I apologise.

 

[Dave7]

Your post starts TBF and then you mention someone was falsely accused. Which I felt was implying he too might be falsely accused.
However if that was not the case I apologise.

No probs, thank you. Have a good day.

 

[wafter]

Noncing aside it does make one wonder if the fallout from being entrapped by some gutter press scumbag caused his life to take a significantly different trajectory... pretty disgusting that someone's life should be so completely destroyed by a bunch of hypocrites looking for salacious headlines to push their vile rag.

All that said Alford apparently had a fair few convictions for other stuff (not sure if these happened before or after the tabloid character assassination) so perhaps he always was a wrong'un.

Either way a miserable state of affairs for all concerned

 

[Drago]

He did the drugs thing because he thought he was going to get paid £100k.

He didnt give a monkeys who they would end up with or who they might harm. If he'd done his due diligence he might have discovered it was the Fake Sheikh setting him up, but he didn't.

He was a criminal, and shouldn't be given brownie points for being stupid.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I didn't know anything about his later life. Unpleasant.

I had to look him up, and the character he played in London's Burning was called Billy, who in one episode fell into a vat of acid, resulting in the unintentionally hilarious and Goon Show-esque line "Billy's fallen in the acid". That's pretty much all I remember about the program.