Coronation Street shock as Lauren ‘death’ is announced on radio
DS Swain updates the public.
Coronation Street‘s DS Swain goes public with her worrying theory over Lauren Bolton’s fate in Wednesday’s episode (March 13).
Swain is leading the investigation into what happened to Lauren after the troubled teenager disappeared last month.
All clues have pointed to Lauren possibly being harmed after the creepy scene in her flat suggested that she hadn’t left of her own accord.
Police have also found traces of blood on the curtains in Lauren’s former home.
In Wednesday’s episode, Daniel Osbourne and Bethany Platt listen to a radio interview with Swain, who’s updating the public on the case.
Swain confirms that Lauren’s disappearance is being treated as a murder investigation as the police now suspect that she was killed.
The revelation is concerning for Daniel, as Swain’s announcement comes shortly after she has interviewed him as a potential suspect in the case.
Daniel was giving Lauren free tutoring sessions before she disappeared, but Swain is convinced that there was more to it.
The radio announcement also paves the way for members of the public to start wildly theorising over the case. This is bad news for Roy Cropper when he also becomes a suspect and internet sleuths start to point the finger at him.
David Neilson, who plays Roy, recently explained: “What seems to be evolving is this kind of invisible mob. That’s the way that wonderful technology can be used by human beings for all sorts of suspect reasons.
“It’s like graffiti or open day for idiots. Anybody’s allowed on there. Everybody invited, everybody in. Like Roy I have nothing to do with social media, like a lot of my generation. So in a way it is quite fascinating to see what is happening to him.
“I’m playing this like it is a sort of insanity that’s going on and I’m playing against something that I don’t understand, let alone Roy. He has only just got a phone and when he finds out about all this craziness on Nina’s phone he simply says he doesn’t want to talk about it.”