EastEnders actress 'hurled racist abuse in cigarette row'

EastEnders actress Linda Henry hurled racist abuse at a community warden who told her off for dropping a cigarette on the floor outside a Jamie Oliver restaurant, a court heard.

Henry, who plays Danny Dyer's on-screen mother Shirley Carter in the show, allegedly shouted: "Do you know who I am? I'm Shirley".

Bexley Magistrates Court heard Henry then told her alleged victim she had no photographic evidence of her doing anything wrong and said: "Who do you think you are? Go away, f*** off, n*****."

The incident is said to have occurred near Jamie's Italian in Greenwich, south east London, on September 14 last year.

Henry denies one count of using threatening or abusive words that were likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, and that the alleged offence was said to have been racially aggravated.