In the fictional town of Weatherfield supposedly located within the suburbs of Manchester, Coronation Street's resident bad boy Frank Foster, played by actor Andrew Lancel, has just been found murdered in his factory which he jointly owned with Carla Connor.
Frank has had a colourful and varied past. His exploits include alleged rape, extortion, playing the field and generally being all round Mr Nasty. The list of people who have a good motive for wanting to see Frank shift off this mortal coil seem to be ever growing. So lets have a look at the key suspects.
Carla Connor - (Alison King)
Carla used to be engaged to Frank until the relationship broke down where she accused him of rape but at the trial he was found not guilty giving her an ideal motive. Since then he has tried to cheat her out of her share of the factory adding fuel to the fire. The murder weapon is a whisky bottle covered in Frank's blood and her fingerprints.
Peter Barlow - (Chris Gascoyne)
Peter recently left his wife and son for Carla after a short affair with her. He is a registered alcoholic who has fallen off the wagon and back hitting the booze hard again. On the night of the murder he gets blind drunk, shouting his mouth off against Frank and turns up the next morning with grazed knuckles, unknown blood on his shirt and severe memory loss. Unfortunately for him it is found that he bought the whisky on his credit card.
Sally Webster - (Sally Whittaker)
Recently jilted and embarrassed publically by Frank, we find Sally next to Frank at the foot of the stairs of the factory covered in blood. We know that she went to confront him after hours but what happened next?
Kevin Webster - (Michael Le Vell)
Sally left husband Kevin of over 20 years due to his love child but he still has feelings for her and was angry about her relationships. He wants to win her affections once more......slightly odd way of showing it though.
Michelle Connor - (Kym Marsh)
So far Michelle has been very much in the background playing the supportive friend and manager of the factory. At the moment you see very little of her with just the occasional scene of her and Carla or the factory staff. We have just found out that she stole the contract that Frank used to deceive Carla into signing away her share of the factory to him as without the paperwork there is no deal.
In the classic whodunnit style the writers of this poular British TV soap that has now been running for over 50 years, have come up trumps yet again with a ratings winner pulling in over 8.5 million viewers on the night of Frank's death. The Police have certainly got their work cut out especially as at the end of tonights episode (March 12th) Peter has gone to them and supposedly handed himself in. It's too soon after the start of the investgation for it to be wrapped up and we the viewer just know that there is more yet to come. This jigsaw is not yet complete and I get the feeling that something quite significant is missing which will only be revealed when the time is right. My guess is that it will be none of the above but is in actual fact the smooth talking fraudster Lewis (Nigel Havers) for reasons yet unknown. However, my dearly beloved disagrees with me and thinks that Rita's (Barbara Knox) new found happiness with Dennis Tanner (Philip Lowrie) is about to be shattered as you are never happy for long in soapland.
What do you think?
Wingwalker
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