wife was driving it on the A55 in North Wales, causing it to swerve. On 19 March 2010 at Mold Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and drink-driving. His wife told the court that he had physically and emotionally abused her for years. On 27 April 2010, the same court sentenced him to eight months imprisonment, suspended for eighteen months. Jones told The People newspaper in January 2009 that he had blown his £1,000,000 fortune and had not received any offers of work since leaving Coronation Street, and owed £30,000 in taxes. In September 2009, he was living alone in a caravan in North Wales. In May 2010, it was reported that Jones had been made homeless after the bank repossessed his £500,000 Cheshire house in order to pay his large debts, and that he could not afford to go into rehab for his chronic alcoholism. On 15 July 2011, the bank was forced to repossess his second home, a bungalow in North Wales. Court documents reveal that the Bank of Scotland actioned legal proceedings to retrieve £204,641 in outstanding mortgage repayments. In June 2012, Jones told the Daily Mirror that he had regularly contemplated suicide after losing both his homes. He had been warned by doctors that he would die soon if he did not stop drinking, but said he no longer cared. At the peak of his alcoholism he admitted drinking fifteen pints a day. In June 2015, Jones appeared in a documentary about celebrities who have hit hard times and rely entirely on social security payments. The programme was called Celebs on Benefits''. He was shown to be in receipt of Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) and housing benefit payments. In 2019, Jones hit out against the rollout of Universal Credit, and called for the six-week wait for the first payment to be scrapped, saying it was pushing families into poverty and increasing reliance on foodbanks. Credits References External links 1953 births Living people English male film actors English male television actors English soap opera actors Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners People from Collyhurst Male actors from Manchester 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors Peter Sutcliffe