Spared jail, EastEnders actor who slashed woman with a knife after she rejected him

AN EastEnders actor who slashed a woman with a knife after she turned down his sexual advances has been spared jail.

- Tristan Kirk

Harry Rafferty, 34, flew into a “rage” and threatened to kill the woman during a confrontation at a friend’s home in Camden. He threw punches and slashed the woman across the stomach, chest and both sides of her face with a knife.

At Wood Green crown court, Judge David Aaronberg KC handed Rafferty a two-year jail sentence and agreed to suspend it, in part because of court delays and a lack of prison places.

“I don’t want to lock you up but you have got to get your life sorted out,” said the judge. “You have a drinking problem, and you are drinking in the last chance saloon.”

Rafferty played violent gang leader Kane in BBC soap EastEnders in 2013. He also had a small role in the 2017 film Tulip Fever alongside Alicia Vikander, Jack O’Connell and Dame Judi Dench.