Roy Cropper's life comes tumbling down around him next week in Coronation Street as his arrest on suspicion of Lauren Bolton's murder gets picked up online. It starts in the café when an internet sleuth listens as Roy tells Nina Lucas and Yasmeen Nazir he has been asked to go back to the police station to be interviewed.
After hearing David and Shona Platt speculating whether Lauren Bolton's dad's far-right group could be involved, Max decides to secretly pay Reece a visit in prison. He tells him how Roy is wrongly suspected of Lauren’s murder when all he did was clean the flat for her.
Later in the café, Roy finds himself alone apart from two dodgy men sitting at a table. When one of them gets up and locks the door, Roy realises he’s in danger.
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Meanwhile, Nina's appalled when she reads about some amateur sleuths who’ve been digging at the bat roost site hoping to find some evidence to put Roy in the frame for Lauren’s murder. Roy loads his car boot with shovels and bin bags and heads for the roost site to ensure all is ok.
But as he returns DS Swain is waiting for him to take him to the station. Later, after being released from the station, Roy, Nina, Carla Connor, Bobby, Max, Evelyn Plummer and Asha Alahan join together for Lauren’s vigil in the precinct. But when Roy addresses the crowd and speaks fondly of Lauren and how much she meant to him, some lads make nasty comments and film him on their phones.
Following the vigil, Evelyn, Carla and Nina urge Roy to keep a low profile until the police find out who really killed Lauren but Roy remains resolute. In the café,
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