Alan Hall made his only appearance on 8 March 1994. He is portrayed by Nick Pickard.
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On 8 March 1994, Frank Butcher asked Phil Mitchell to torch his car lot in an insurance scam. On the night of the fire, Frank stood outside his car lot and Alan Hall asked him for money. Frank said he did not have any and walked off. Alan Hall then walked into the car lot premises. One of the cars was unlocked, so Alan sat in one of the cars and fell asleep. At around 11pm Phil did the deed. He doused the cars in petrol and then set them alight then scarpered. Alan Hall was burned badly. The fire brigade and ambulance services were alerted. Alan Hall was rushed to hospital and later died.
Frank and Phil were overcome with guilt. Frank scolded Phil for not checking properly before starting the fire. The police suspected arson and a possible insurance scam. Frank was questioned a few times by police. He became depressed and at his wits end with worry. Pat handed the business accounts to the loss adjuster, not knowing about Frank's scam, and when Frank found out he was devastated as he knew the insurance company would know it was a scam and not pay out. The pressure became too much due to Alan's death and the insurance claim probably going to be denied, and Frank fled Walford in April 1994, not telling anyone. The case was later dropped due to lack of evidence. Frank suffered a nervous breakdown and ended up in a psychiatric hospital. Phil resumed his normal life but did have a few sleepless nights and began drinking. His brother Grant Mitchell said he could get ten or fifteen years in prison if any of this got out. He later recovered. However in December 1995, Frank returned to Walford and wanted to pick up where he left off. He soon admitted defeat and left Walford but later returned permanently and Phil and Frank put the past behind them, especially when he became his stepdad in 1999 when he wed Peggy.
In November 2011, almost eighteen years after Alan died, Phil began to receive photos of a young lad. A stalker was leaving them around and every subsequent photo was of the same young person but a little older. On the 14 November 2011 Phil found another photo left in the petrol cap of one of the cars at Mitchell's Autos. He then looked at the date on the back which said 08/03/94. Phil's memory came flooding back to him as he then had a good idea who the person in the photo is, the vagrant who Phil had accidentally killed in the car lot all those years ago. However the stalker turned out to be his son Ben, who had found out somehow about the 1994 fire. Nothing further was said about the fire.
In 2011, a newspaper report was seen with a photo of the man but the writing underneath was did not say his name, however it confirmed that he was in his early twenties.
On 21 November 2011, Rainie Cross does some research on the vagrant and finds out that all of his relatives are long dead, however the identity of the vagrant was not established until 2017.
In April 2017, Michelle Fowler remarked on how the vagrant died in the fire all those years ago.
In August 2017, Phil reveals his name to be Alan Hall and that he is Jay Brown's biological father, but this was a lie after a phone call between Phil and a mystery person. It is very likely that the vagrants name was Alan Hall, and Phil only lied about him being Jay's father, not about his name.
In January 2018, it was revealed that Max Branning was the one who was blackmailing Phil in to telling Jay that Alan Hall was his real biological father, as part of a Wayland & Co revenge plot, to try and sell Jay the Car lot.
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