Diana Rayworth was an English actress who was born in Derbyshire.
She is best known for playing Betty Butcher in 'The House of Eliott' from 1991 to 1994.
She has also been in 'The Bill', 'Kinsey', 'Spearhead', 'Dixon of Dock Green', 'Sam', 'Seaview' and 'Rumpole of the Bailey'.
Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.