Ex-EastEnders star who said ‘black lives don’t matter’ given community order

Katie Jarvis, who played Hayley Slater in the BBC soap from 2018 to 2019, got into a dispute with a group of women outside a fish and chip restaurant in Southend-on-Sea in July 2020

Former EastEnders star Katie Jarvis, 30, leaves Basildon Combined Court (Joe Giddens/PA)

A former EastEnders actress who shouted “black lives don’t matter” during a dispute by the seaside in Essex has been sentenced to a community order.

Katie Jarvis, who played Hayley Slater in the BBC soap from 2018 to 2019, got into a dispute with a group of women outside a fish and chip restaurant in Southend-on-Sea at around 7.30pm on July 31 2020.