Paula Williamson, the former Emmerdale and Coronation Street actor who married the notorious prisoner Charles Bronson, has died aged 38.

Williamson was found dead at an address in Sneyd Green in Stoke-on-Trent on Monday morning, Staffordshire police said. Her death is not being treated as suspicious.

The actor married Bronson in a prison chapel in 2017. He had proposed to her in February of that year, five months after she began visiting him at HMP Wakefield.

In a statement the force said: “A postmortem will take place to establish the cause of death but the death is not being treated as suspicious. A report is now being prepared for the coroners.



“Next of kin have been informed. The family have asked for their right to privacy to allow them to grieve at this difficult time.”