Coronation Street spoilers: Shocking twist as Roy Cropper is arrested for the murder of a teen
Roy Cropper (David Neilson) is set to be arrested for the murder of Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) in upcoming Coronation Street scenes, and actress Vicky Myers, who plays DS Lisa Swain, has given us all the details.
Lauren has been missing for a couple of weeks now in Corrie, with Roy being the last person to have seen her alive.
In upcoming scenes, Evelyn Plummer (Maureen Lipman) reveals that she is having to let Lauren’s flat go because her landlord has discovered that she is subletting. Things only get worse when Roy learns that Evelyn will be charged for the state the flat has been left in, and he agrees to take charge of the clean up.
As he gets to work, Bobby Crawford (Jack Carroll) arrives, and finds it suspicious that Roy is going through Lauren’s things.
When DS Swain is put on the case, a conversation with Bobby about his suspicions puts Roy in the frame as a person of interest, as Vicky reveals.
‘He ends up in the frame because she interviews Bobby and there are certain elements of that conversation that raise suspicion. Then she goes ahead and goes to interview Roy, and I guess because of his honesty and slight vulnerability, she sees that he’s almost too good to be true.’
Viewers will know that Roy offered Lauren a job and helped her to find somewhere to live out of the goodness of his own heart, though DS Swain doesn’t see it that way.
‘I think that’s perhaps the cynics that we may become as people and a community, in that this almost seems too good to be true. Do people really genuinely go and help someone and support someone and give them a little bit extra after they’ve done something terrible, and they’re there with the generosity?
‘So she picks that apart and thinks: “That can’t be right. This is raising suspicion”. And then it continues from there really.’
As part of their investigation, DS Swain and Craig Tinker (Colson Smith) head to Lauren’s flat, and what they find there is completely horrifying.
‘Once Swain and Tinker go to Lauren’s flat, they’ve been made aware that there’s some blood potentially – they think it’s blood – on the curtains. So after SOCO are brought in to investigate, it’s confirmed and also human tissue.’
The fact that Roy tried to clean up Evelyn’s flat doesn’t bode well for him, and despite residents having a high opinion of him, DS Swain is only interested in the facts, and unfortunately they are not aligned in Roy’s favour.
‘She doesn’t know Roy, she doesn’t care about Roy. And irrelevant of what anyone else says to her, she deals in facts. She’s got to get to the bottom of this,’ Vicky explained.
‘And with Swain, she’s very much “the victim’s voice”. So she’s working at it from Lauren’s perspective. She wants to know what’s happened to her. And irrelevant to what anyone else says about this much-loved character on the Street, she doesn’t care about that. That’s of no interest to her whatsoever.’
Eventually, Lauren’s case becomes a murder enquiry, and DS Swain has no choice but to arrest Roy.
‘The evidence is there to suggest [Roy is guilty]. But I think for Swain, she’s never met anybody like Roy before and it makes her feel quite uncomfortable.
‘But for her, that’s not really for her to decide. Her job is to collate all of the evidence, corroborate everything and pass it onto CPS and then court. So she’s just got to do her job and make sure she can get enough evidence as she possibly can.
‘Irrelevant of what other people are saying and if they’re championing his corner, that’s her job and she takes it seriously.’
Has DS Swain got the right man, or is Roy innocent?