EastEnders actor Shane Richie arrested for ‘drink driving’ after row at petrol station

Shane Richie, the actor greatest identified for his long-running position on EastEnders, has been arrested for ‘drink driving’ after a row broke out at a petroleum station earlier this week.

Footage of the 62-year-old, who performs Alfie Moon on the BBC cleaning soap, exhibits him having a strongly worded argument with an worker on the storage simply after 11pm on Wednesday 29 July.

Richie, whose actual identify is Shane Roche, was challenged by the employees for the usage of his vape near the petrol, as he reportedly stated ‘I don’t give a f***’ after he was advised that it was harmful to smoke there.

Following the altercation with the worker, the police had been referred to as and based on The Sun, he was arrested for drink driving, and is predicted to look in court docket subsequent month.

The incident occurred after Richie drove his white Hyundai automobile onto the foreclosures however as he sought help for a reported flat tyre, employees shortly accosted him for his use of the e-cigarette.

The actor replied: “It’s not smoking, it’s a vape.”

Issues then change into extra heated after one of many staff pulls out a cellphone to document the altercation, with the employees member saying: “I’ve to get it on video for the police. That may be a vape and that’s a threat on this petrol station.”

Richie snapped again: “What, you’re filming me? All proper, I’m going to movie you.”

Strolling again to his automobile, Richie then says: “This isn’t a vape.”

Regardless of being advised that his vape poses an apparent ‘threat’ in a petroleum station, he then is reported to have replied: “Yeah, I do not give a f***.”

As soon as the police arrived, a feminine supervisor on the petrol station in Essex can then be heard telling officers that Richie ‘began getting aggressive and he began smoking an electrical cigarette’.

However then Richie once more tried to disclaim any wrongdoing and was eager to stress the excellence between a vape and a cigarette, as he shouted that at police as soon as once more.

Though the London-born comic insisted that they do not police as he urged that somebody was coming to vary his tyre, police shortly arrive on the scene and strategy the EastEnders star.

After being requested if he is okay, the police officer says: “These guys have stated you might need been consuming and that you just’ve pushed this car in right here.”

The footage then cuts out at that time however Essex Police later confirmed his arrest in a press release.

It learn: “Officers had been referred to as to experiences of a suspected drink driver in Church Langley Manner, Harlow, shortly earlier than 11.20pm on Wednesday, July 29.

“On arrival, officers arrested a person. A cost of drink-driving has subsequently been authorised in opposition to Shane Roche, 62, of Surrey.

“He is because of seem at Colchester Magistrates’ Courtroom on Wednesday, September 9.”

LADbible group has contacted the representatives of Richie for remark.