{"id":579696,"date":"2026-08-02T02:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579696\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T02:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:46:19","slug":"eastenders-star-shane-richie-charged-with-drink-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579696\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders star Shane Richie charged with drink-driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV presenter and actor Shane Richie will appear in court next month charged with drink-driving.<\/p>\n<p>Richie, who\u2019s real name is Shane Roche, will appear at Colchester Magistrates\u2019 Court on September 9th.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old soap star, best known for playing Alfie Moon in EastEnders, was arrested in Harlow after officers were called to reports of a suspected drink-driver shortly before 11.20pm, Essex Police said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"914\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eastenders-star-shane-richie-charged-with-drink-driving.jpg\" alt=\"Shane Richie wins award\" data-title=\"6th Annual British Soap Awards \u2013 BBC Television Centre\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Yui Mok\" data-usage-terms=\"\u2013\"\/>Shane Richie with his Best Actor award for his role as Alfie Moon (PA)<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the force said: \u201cOfficers were called to reports of a suspected drink driver in the area of Church Langley Way, Harlow, shortly before 11.20pm on Wednesday 29 July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn arrival, officers arrested a man. A charge of drink driving has subsequently been authorised against Shane Roche, 62, of Tadworth, Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is due to appear at Colchester Magistrates\u2019 Court on Wednesday September 9.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richie\u2019s representative has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV presenter and actor Shane Richie will appear in court next month charged with drink-driving. Richie, who\u2019s real&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-579696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}