Even with all the news this week, I was shocked when I saw this on sky news.
RIP to Mr Speight, as everyone else, I've grown up watching him on Scratchy & Co. Name That Toon, and most probably his most known role in SMart. Even after everything that's happened I was hoping that he would recover, and if he didn't go back to kids TV could have progressed to adult, a terrible end to the week.
Very sad news, he'll be sadly missed. I recall watchin him on Scratchy and Co alot, though I remember little of the show, so I can only say SMart was the show I remember him the most.
This is so unbelievably distressing... he was arrested for his girlfriend's murder, was absolutely innocent and guilty of nothing other than being so utterly distraught and broken at his loss that he couldn't even go back to his flat.
And now he's gone too. He was so talented and, well, it's just so sad.
Yeah spotted that now, though they don't seem to have reported anything up until now, I just wondered if it was going to be a bit too close to home for them.
He was truly one of the last few CBBC stalwarts left really. I personally remember watching him on SMart on the Road after school in my early teens. His talents when kids asked him how to draw an animal or face just using shapes were brilliant and also the moments when he worked alongside Tony Hart in SMart Hart. A creative talent gone to waste by tragedy, very sad.
As someone who now uses Paddington station every weekday in order to get to work, it's rather shocking news that a body has been found there... it shocks me to think that I could have actually walked past or near the area where the body was found and not even known it.
Glad they reported it, would seem very strange for them to completely ignore the story especially when he was one of CBBC's popular presenters.
The on-air Newsround just missed it as the last bulletin on the CBBC Channel, looking back through the schedule, was 5pm. The news broke about ten minutes afterwards.
Agree with most comments here - sad, but not unexpected at all.
Unfortunately though it's not going to make the British press think twice about the potential consequences of a genuinely innocent man being subjected to trial by media.
