Roy Cropper in danger as people turn on him over Lauren Bolton’s disappearance in Coronation Street
The café owner is targeted by two men - will he make it?
LAUREN Bolton mysteriously vanished from the cobbles and the police believe they have a murder on their hands.
Coronation Street favourite Roy Cropper is the main suspect, making him a vulnerable target to a dangerous attack.
Bobby Crawford alerted the authorities when he found Lauren Bolton’s flat empty and seemingly abandoned, as he feared something may have happened to her.
The mystery has been slowly unfolding on ITV and Roy Cropper’s behaviour has raised suspicions.
Despite his reputation in Weatherfield, making him a firm favourite among fans, the café owner portrayed by David Neilson is at the top of the list of suspects due the fact he was caught cleaning Lauren’s flat after her disappearance.
In more recent scenes of the Manchester-based program, Sean Tully pointed out some blood in Lauren’s flat, prompting Bobby and Carla Connor to tell the police everything.
Lauren’s disappearance was then treated as a murder investigation and, in a shock twist, Roy was arrested before being trolled online.
Things go from bad to worse for Roy next week as he tells his niece Nina Lucas (Mollie Gallagher) and Yasmeen Nazir (Shelley King) that he has been asked to go back to the police station to be questioned.
After hearing his father David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd) and stepmother Shona Platt (Julia Goulding) speculating whether Lauren’s dad’s far right group could be involved, Max Turner (Paddy Bever) decides to secretly pay Reece a visit in prison.
Once there, 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 – could he be left to die in his café?
Elsewhere, 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.
Unfortunately, Roy makes things even worse for himself as he loads his car boot with shovels and bin bags and heads for the roost site to ensure all is well.
But as he returns, DS Swain (Vicky Myers) is waiting for him to take him to the station.
In other scenes, Nina, Carla (Alison King), Bobby (Jack Carroll), Max, Evelyn Plummer (Maureen Lipman), Asha Alahan (Tanisha Gorey) and Roy join together for Lauren’s vigil in the precinct.
Sadly, 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.
Evelyn, Carla and Nina then urge Roy to keep a low profile until the police find out who really killed Lauren, due to hostilities rising, but he remains resolute.
Later on, in the café, Nina confides in Carla how worried she is for Roy.
How much danger is Roy in?
Could Lauren resurface soon?
Has she really been murdered?
Coronation Street airs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8pm on ITV.
