CORONATION Street fans have been left raging after the show appeared to make a huge blunder with
Craig Tinker.
The local cop was forced to arrest yet another neighbour and close friend on the programme after
seemingly managing to land his home street as his very own personal patch within the force.
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Craig was forced to spring into action in order to arrest Kevin Webster after a reported call of burglary after the mechanic broke into Stefan Brent’s work office a few weeks prior.
Kevin had barged his way into the property as he tried to gather evidence that Stefan was the man behind Abi’s deepfake porn horror.
A serious of sex tapes with Abi superimposed onto them had been circulating the web after Stefan launched vile revenge against her after she got his murdering son’s TV documentary canned.
During his thieving session, Kevin got the burner phone that contained the evidence that Stefan was responsible.
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As such, Stefan was unable to report the crime at the time as the cops would search for the phone.
However, after organising a rouse to get Kevin and Abi away from the house, Stefan managed to get his hands on it once again meaning he was free to call the cops once and for all.
Craig rolled up in a cop car to the garage in order to tell him that he was arresting him on suspicion of burglary.
He was hauled into the back of the car by Craig and immediately taken down the station to face questioning.
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However, it did not take long for fans to issue their complaints over the scene in question.
They were left questioning whether Craig would be allowed to continually arrest and interview his neighbours, family and friends considering that he has a personal connection to almost everybody he has ever been seen to deal with.
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Debating the conflict of interest, one ITV viewer said: “Surely Craig would not be able to interview neighbours, would this not be a conflict of interest?
“Also how come he seems to be the cop who is part of every single crime in the street. Seems so daft to me.”
Another added: “I end up yelling at the screen every time. Storylines are far-fetched, who’s writing this garbage!”
Before a third went on to say: “There it goes again, total conflict of interest Craig arresting one of his neighbours. His Mum literally works right next to Kev FFS!!!”
Most complained about soap storylines
Over the years, all three of the main soaps have featured plots that have had even die-hard fans reaching for their phones and laptops so they can get in touch with Ofcom and complain. Here are just some of the most scandalous…
- EastEnders baby theft: 13,400 Ofcom complaints – Back in 2011, EastEnders was flooded with complaints when Ronnie Branning (RIP) swapped her baby for the dead son of Kat Moon. The storyline drew the most number of objections in the soap’s long history and saw it roundly criticised by campaigners – with 13,400 flying in over the course of the storyline. Some viewers called it “distressing” and “horrific” but Ofcom ruled the scenes were not “unduly disturbing”.
- Emmerdale dog-napping: 550 Ofcom complaints – Back in 2016, Ross Barton and Charity Dingle came up with a plan to steal a dog and hold it ransom – but viewers didn’t like it one bit. The nation’s pet owners rose up, insisting the storyline would encourage copycats (not to mention copydogs). Complaints over two episodes totalled a staggering 550 and soap writers quickly learnt you don’t mess with animal-lovers.
- Coronation Street double murder: 546 Ofcom complaints – Marginally less people complained about a gruesome double murder than objected to a dog-napping plot when Pat Phelan was at the centre of a spate of killings. First he forced Andy Carver to shoot dead Vinny Ashford – and then Pat killed Andy. All the bloodshed back in 2017 proved to be too much for some viewers, who lodged complaints in vast numbers about the “violent scenes”.
Comments about Craig continued to roll in as another said: “In real life, he wouldn’t be able to be anywhere near any investigations in Weatherfield, nor would he be able to arrest or interview anybody he knows as it could be a conflict of interest.
“BUT it’s a soap, we aren’t going to see him doing his job if he didn’t do it.”
Before someone else wrote: “An insult to the police.”
