Emmerdale icon living in caravan before tragic death as | UK News

One Emmerdale icon who left the cleaning soap in 2010 died living in a caravan in Southport, Lancashire, Express.co.uk can solely verify. The closing determine of his will has now been uncovered after practically 400 episodes of starring in the ITV cleaning soap from 1998.

Andy Devine – real title Peter Devine – performed patriarch Shadrach Dingle for more than a decade in the cleaning soap, as properly as having fun with stints on Coronation Street as Jason Ross, Queer as Folk as Bernard Thomas and Merseybeat as Bobby Miller. His closing performing function got here in 2011, when he starred as Dennis Dowling in an episode of BBC cleaning soap Doctors.

Afterwards, Andy retired from performing and settled down at Ocean Road Riverside Caravan Park in Southport until his death in 2022. He didn’t go away an official will, but the overall sum of the property he left totalled £103,776 gross and a web worth of £98,907, according to a letter of administration obtained from probate information from 2024.

The 79-year-old was discovered to have died from hospital-acquired pneumonia after struggling a fall, and had been left mendacity on the ground for an hour as he was “unable to get up until his carers arrived”.

Sefton Senior Coroner Julie Goulding said at the inquest: “Peter had a significant number of serious underlying clinical co-morbidities and, not withstanding all appropriate care and treatment, [his] condition deteriorated culminating in his death.”

His death was ruled “accidental”, and tributes poured in from his co-stars at the time.

Emmerdale star Liam O’Brien said he was “heartbroken to hear of the passing of an old friend,” including that he was “even sadder that he passed in January and I never knew.”

Coronation Street star Daniel Jillings also paid tribute to his “first drama teacher” who was a “character both on and off screen”.