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Joe Donelli
Fact: The first main wrongdoer on Coronation Street shoved fellow GI Steve
Tanner down a flight of stairs on 28 September 1968, killing him in the process.
Joe later shot himself dead inside No5 Coronation Street.
Frank Riley
Fact: Frank Riley was an escaped prisoner who broke into the Barlow's
maisonnette in 1968 and held Valerie Barlow hostage while Ken was out with a
school theatre group. She was afraid that he would rape her but was able to
signal neighbour Ena Sharples by banging on the pipe. The police eventually
captured Riley and Valerie was unharmed though shaken.
Roy Johnson
Fact: Roy had been beating wife Lynn for some
time. He killed his wife by battering her to death on 29 January 1975. Her body
was found in Len Fairclough's kitchen. Roy confessed to the murder later on.
Gunman
Fact: There were actually two gun-wielding robbers
at the infamous Baldwin wage-snatch of 11 January 1978, but one of them,
apparently called 'Tommo', was the one who shot Ernie Bishop dead. They haven't
been heard of since.
Alan Bradley
Fact: This was the psycho who made sure Coronation Street got big ratings.
Alan came to Coronation Street in 1986 to find his daughter, Jenny, who'd run
away after her mother was mown down by a car. Alan started stealing some of
Rita's money, and then tried to trick her into marrying him. After this, Alan
turned from charming father to abusive boyfriend, and tried to kill her by
smothering her with a pillow - but Martin Platt and Jenny rescued her just in
time. Alan disappeared, and then tracked Rita down to Blackpool, and then the
classic moment came when Alan met his end after being hit by a Blackpool tram in
late 1989.
Fact: The Bradley demise pulled 26 million viewers, and was
originally aired on ITV on 8 December 1989.
Gangsters
In the 80s - 90s, it happened that every one to
two years, someone was murdered by local gangsters. There's a list of the
victims below.
1. Brian
Tilsley - died after being knifed by Darren Whitely outside a local
nightclub.
2. Samir Rachid -
died after being beaten up at the local canal. He was on the way to the hospital
to donate a kidney to Deirdre's daughter Tracy (31/5/95)
3. Des Barnes - died after being
physically attacked by local drug dealers on behalf of Jez Quigley (who had sent
them to beat Tony Horrocks) whilst trying to save his stepson. (18/11/98)
4.
Tony Horrocks - died after
getting beaten round the head allegedly by Jez Quigley (died off screen, body
found in the excavations at Victoria Street by Vinny Sorrell). (Between 4 -
6/2/99)
Jon Lindsay
Fact: Seduced Deirdre Rachid, then sent her to prison by framing her for
fraud. Later arrested and taken away.
Steve McDonald
Fact: Steve has been in trouble with the law on several occaisions. The
first time was after he was caught selling stolen car radios. He later got
involved with Malcom Fox, receiving stolen alcohol. He was arrested and spent
time in prison for it. Later capers included break and entry of a factory with
Joe Carter though he was not caught for this. He also borrowed money from
criminal Jez Quigley and was badly beaten by Quigley's thugs as a result of not
paying it back on time.
Don Brennan
Fact: Don always felt hard done by by Mike Baldwin. He lost money gambling
to him and later was shafted by being tricked into buying the garage for much
more than it was worth. Don lost everything including his girlfriend Josie Clark
and blamed Don. He kidnapped Alma Baldwin and drove into the canal with her but
they both survived. Don later developed cancer in prison, escaped from hospital,
held Mike hostage and beat him up. He then stole Alma's car and drove himself
into the wall of the viaduct at high speed, dying in the ensuing explosion in
1997.
Anne Malone
Fact: Always a dominating woman, she ran circles around first Andy McDonald
and then Curly Watts whom she secretly fancied. He rejected her and she framed
him so that it looked like he was sabotaging Bettabuys. After Curly went on the
run from the law, also planning to search for ex wife Raquel, Anne got locked in
the store freezer and died.
Jez Quigley
Fact: Jez was Tony Horrocks's murderer. Steve McDonald testified against him
in the Horrocks murder trial - but he only ended up as Jez's next target.
Ironically, Jez died in hospital after being attacked by Jim, Steve's
father.
Jim McDonald
Fact: Jim found his son battered and bruised, and sent him to hospital. In
revenge on Quigley, Jim attacked him - unfortunately, Jez punctured his own
spleen and lung with a busted rib in hospital on 15 September 2000, meaning Jim
had killed Jez. Jim escaped from prison in 2003, and attempted to escape to
Ireland - fruitlessly, however.
Richard
Hillman
Fact: The baddy we all loved to hate turned up at Alma
Halliwell's funeral. Richard was Alma's cousin. Richard's first main evil deed
was watching Dougie Ferguson take a fall over a banister - and instead go for
help, he rifled through Dougie's pockets for cash and left him to die. Then, he
smashed his ex in the face with a shovel on 20 May 2002, killing her in the
process. He married Gail Platt in July 2002 - and tried to make her mum, Audrey
Roberts, think that she was going mad. Richard burned down her house, but didn't
kill Audrey. Then, he tried to kill Emily Bishop with a crowbar - but instead,
he had to kill Maxine Peacock, who walked in on the scene. Richard died after he
drove his people carrier into the local canal.
Craig Harris
Fact: Before his sister, Craig was the criminal of the Nelson/Harris clan.
He tampered with Martin Platt's breaks, but regretted it immediately when Martin
took his girlfriend, Katy Harris (Craig's sister) for a drive just before
Christmas on 2003. The car spiralled out of control, and smashed into a brick
wall. Martin was pulled from the car to safety just before the vehicle
exploded.
Maya Sharma
Fact: Arrived as a solicitor, a lawyer. Maya was so bad in her time on the
Street that she almost made Richard seem OK compared to her. First, she killed
Monica, Kirk's dog - then, she took Dev Alahan for a 90mph joyride, married six
illegal immigrants under Sunita Parekh's name, and when all that didn't work,
she burnt down all of Dev's shops. Maya apparently died after a lorry crashed
into the back of her car during the flaming finale of the Corner Shop.
Katy Harris
Fact: Katy was a sort of vulnerable person, until she confronted her father
at the garage he worked in. Katy smashed him over the head with a wrench,
killing him in the process on 4 March 2005. Katy died after taking too much
sugary food (remember: Katy was diabetic).
Tony Gordon
Fact: Tony was an Underworld client and
persuaded Carla to let him buy into the factory. He fancied her and wooed her
and persuaded her to accept his engagement ring, but she had fallen back in love
with Liam Connor who was engaged to Maria. Tony was known to use bully tactics
to get what he wanted. He'd already forced old Jed Stone out of his house in
order to raze the houses on that street for redevelopment and he'd smoked out a
colony of bats to do the same thing on Victoria Street for a block of posh
flats, much to Roy Cropper's dismay. When he found out about Carla and Liam's
affair, he arranged to have Liam run over and killed on the night of Tony's stag
do. Carla ran away but returned to marry him. Jed Stone returned and Tony nearly
killed him but managed to get him out of town. Not before Carla figured out
there was a connection. Carla realized that Tony killed Liam and left him. Maria
had always suspected Tony but was considered hysterical in her grief. Tony ended
up convincing Maria that he was falling in love with her and her new baby, Liam
Jr. and they would have been married if Carla hadn't returned and insisted that
Tony leave Maria. Tony's life went downhill and after nearly killing Roy, he
turned himself in. Some time later he engineered an escape from prison, took
Carla and Hayley hostage in the factory and after letting Hayley go, set it on
fire. He let Carla go at the last minute and went up in flames when the factory
exploded.
Frank Foster
Fact: Frank was an Underworld client and
persuaded Carla to let him buy into the factory. Are you spotting a trend here?
He was ruthless and persued Carla who was in love with Peter Barlow who was
married to Leanne. Still spotting that trend? Carla told Frank the night before
their wedding that she loved Peter so Frank raped her. During the trial, Frank's
mother made sure Leanne saw the photos of Carla and Peter together and that
marraige blew up. Peter moved in with Carla. Frank was not convicted of rape but
later turned up dead in the factory. Did Peter do it? Did Carla? No, it turned
out his mother did it when she realized he really was a rapist and that the
stress over thinking their "innocent" son was going through a trial caused her
husband to die of a heart attack. She lashed out with a heavy bottle out of
anger and it killed Frank.
Karl Munro
Fact: Feckless Karl was Stella Price's partner.
They moved to the Street when Stella wanted to look up her long lost daughter,
Leanne, whom she'd abandoned as a baby. They bought the pub from Steve and
settled in but shortly after that, Karl started gambling. After that was outed,
he allowed Sunita Alahan to seduce him and they had a fling. He finished it and
she went back to Dev but she pushed him for more and their affair was discovered
through Sunita's manipulations. Stella kicked out Karl, Dev left Sunita so Karl
moved in with Sunita. Big mistake. Sunita soon realized he wasn't the man she
thought she loved. Stella got on with her life and even had a fling with younger
man, Jason Grimshaw. Karl thought he lost everything and after Jason did some
electrical repairs to fix a short that Karl caused, Karl decided to set the pub
on fire to set up Jason. Unfortunately, Stella was upstairs. Sunita saw Karl set
the fire but he pushed her down the stairs and left her to burn. He later tried
to rescue Stella but couldn't get them both out of the flaming building. A
firefighter got Stella and then Karl out but died when the roof collapsed.
Sunita was brought out but was in a coma. When she started to come out of it,
Karl killed her. He later terrorized young Craig Tinker who saw him come out of
the pub on the night of the fire but later confessed and gave himself up.
Rob Donovan
Fact: Rob is Carla Connor's brother and has
already spent time in prison for his participation in an armed robbery. He and
Tracy Barlow set up a pawn shop and occasionaly dealt in stolen goods. He killed
Tina McIntyre when she threatened to tell the police on him. Carla found out he
was Tina's murderer just as he was going to marry Tracy. She called the police
on the wedding day and Rob went on the run. He tried to talk Tracy into running
away with him and she nearly did but in the end, she called the police and made
a deal. They would overlook the stolen goods in exchange for Rob.
Callum Logan
Fact: Callum is the biological father of Kylie
Platt's son, Max and Sarah Platt's son/daughter. He's a drug dealer and has been in prison. He decided to get custody of Max and in the process, had David roughed up and coerced Sarah's daughter Bethany into doing some drug deliveries for him. He had a gun in his flat which Max found but he was able to get rid of it before the police searched his place. He owes money to a higher up drug "boss" and was planning to skip town but blackmailed David and Kylie for cash in exchange for letting them have Max and never bothering them again. They couldn't raise the money and Sarah lured him to the house to talk to him but he lost his temper and attacked her. He nearly killed her but Kylie whacked him over the head with a wrench and killed him. His body is currently in the old drain under the annex room that Gail built, converting their garage to a room for herself. She has no idea! (January 2016)
Jamie
Fact: Jamie is Steph Britton's ex-boyfriend. He got into debt and blackmailed Steph's brother Luke into doing some illegal car racing. If Luke didn't, Jamie threatened to post some nude photos he had of Steph to the internet. Luke did race and won but later when Jamie pushed for more, Steph found out. Jamie posted the photos anyway. Luke and Steph's boyfriend, Andy Carver, caused Luke to lose his girlfriend while Steph went to the police and had him arrested. Later, when he was out on bail, Andy and Luke caused Jamie to lose his job. Jamie took revenge by staking out the Bistro where Steph works, planning to stage a robbery and scare Steph badly. But the restaurant had been closed due to a power cut and Carla Connor was the only person inside. Jamie and his mate ransacked the place but there was no money in the till so they grabbed Carla's handbag and she chased them outside, getting dragged down the road by the car door in the process. They have been arrested again.
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