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Old 15-07-2014, 16:23
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He may be an idiot. He shouldn't have started drinking again and he shouldn't have had an affair with Tina but he certainly doesn't deserve to be locked up for a crime he didn't commit. Poor guy.
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Old 15-07-2014, 18:26
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I feel sorry for him as well. He's done so many bad things but he dosen't deserve to be locked up for murder.
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Old 15-07-2014, 18:53
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Everybody is conspiring against him too.
Leanne knew exactly what she was doing when she dragged Curly down the road to watch him get hauled off by the bill.
What with Peter and Nick now off the scene, Curly is fast running out of midriffs to cry into.
Not that she cared.

Then we have Trace, his own sis who can spot a murderer at twenty paces, but not when he's led in her own bed.
The daft, sexy bint.

Even kindly Deirdre is now having grave misgivings about Peter's innocence, whilst those two real murderers are upstairs in her house having rumpy-pumpy.

It's not looking for Peter at all, not now those two clever detectives have his number.
He'd better hoped the lags still make moonshine in clink.
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Old 15-07-2014, 19:02
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Prison will be good for Peter. He'll be able to stay off the booze and get fit in the gym. I think he deserves to do a bit of time too, for being so revoltingly smug and sleazy when he was carrying on with Tina.
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Old 15-07-2014, 19:51
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Poor Peter...

If I was him I would be plotting my revenge while on the remand wing in the Big House...

He is obviously none the wiser that it is actually Rob that carried out the murder and then pointed the finger at Eight Ace but at least he could be dreaming up mindful ways of venting his anger and frustration...

First on the cards would be a visit on a dark night to Curly...
If it wasn't for him wanting a new mum every ten seconds poor peter would still be free...

Next for a visit would be Carla... if only the black widow had been better in the sack... poor Peter wouldn't have had to go looking for a new Mum for Curly...

Then it would have to be Deirdre to face the grim reaper... she alone is responsible for bringing Traceyluv into this world and if it wasn't for Traceyluv and Rob then he would still have the Bookies which kept poor Peter on the straight and narrow...

Last but no means least would be Liz... If that harridan hadn't kept giving Tina time off and lots of breaks then the affair would have fizzled out long before her untimely demise...

Revenge is sweet poor Peter and a dish best served cold... as cold as Tina lying in the ground...
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Old 15-07-2014, 19:54
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I feel sorry for him as well. He's done so many bad things but he dosen't deserve to be locked up for murder.
True. Leanne said "you are capable of many things, Peter, but murder isn't one of them".

He doesn't deserve to be locked up for murder, and Tina didn't deserve to be murdered.
Silly scriptwriters. IMO.
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Old 15-07-2014, 19:56
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I just find it annoying - yet another innocent person gets arrested plotline - yawn..........
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Old 15-07-2014, 20:19
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I just find it annoying - yet another innocent person gets arrested plotline - yawn..........
Weatherfield CID have never once successfully solved a crime shortly after it was commited. It always has an investigation that goes on for ages, the real culprit remains at large and the wrong person is charged. They appear incapable of even basic detective work.
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Old 15-07-2014, 20:27
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I love how Rob isn't even on the police's radar given the bracelet was located in his shop
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Old 15-07-2014, 20:31
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I always feel sorry for Peter, even when I hate what he is doing. It's Gascoyne's performance which I find incredibly multi layered and sympathetic (and often pathetic) are 2 of them, plus I think he does have a good heart, he's just a very weak and quite easily manipulated man and I can naver forget that he battles against alcoholism every day and it is a disease that he didn't choose to have. It doesn't absolve him of all his transgressions of course and it is an illness that can be controlled but it isn't easy.

He didn't start drinking again until Tina announced she might be pregnant at which point the pressure just became too much for him to cope without relapsing. Of course he shouldn't have put himself in that situation in the first place, shouldn't have had an affair but Tina did very much offer it up on a plate, repeatedly (even on his wedding day) and as I say, he is a weak and easily tempted man. Then once they'd started she would not let it go, either trying to get him into bed or threatening him. I think i'd have turned to drink in his shoes.
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Old 15-07-2014, 20:34
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Everybody is conspiring against him too.
Leanne knew exactly what she was doing when she dragged Curly down the road to watch him get hauled off by the bill.
What with Peter and Nick now off the scene, Curly is fast running out of midriffs to cry into.
Not that she cared.

Then we have Trace, his own sis who can spot a murderer at twenty paces, but not when he's led in her own bed.
The daft, sexy bint.

Even kindly Deirdre is now having grave misgivings about Peter's innocence, whilst those two real murderers are upstairs in her house having rumpy-pumpy.

It's not looking for Peter at all, not now those two clever detectives have his number.
He'd better hoped the lags still make moonshine in clink.
Not to worry - he'll be up to cleavages soon
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Old 15-07-2014, 20:34
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I love how Rob isn't even on the police's radar given the bracelet was located in his shop
And his fingerprints should have been found in the flat (he can't have got rid of all of them with that frantic wiping off surfaces) and he also lives in the house where blood was found in the out house. And he had history of altercations with Tina - she threw a brick through the shop wondow remember and he's snogged her.
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Old 15-07-2014, 20:35
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I always feel sorry for Peter, even when I hate what he is doing. It's Gascoyne's performance which I find incredibly multi layered and sympathetic (and often pathetic) are 2 of them, plus I think he does have a good heart, he's just a very weak and quite easily manipulated man and I can naver forget that he battles against alcoholism every day and it is a disease that he didn't choose to have. It doesn't absolve him of all his transgressions of course and it is an illness that can be controlled but it isn't easy.

He didn't start drinking again until Tina announced she might be pregnant at which point the pressure just became too much for him to cope without relapsing. Of course he shouldn't have put himself in that situation in the first place, shouldn't have had an affair but Tina did very much offer it up on a plate, repeatedly (even on his wedding day) and as I say, he is a weak and easily tempted man. Then once they'd started she would not let it go, either trying to get him into bed or threatening him. I think i'd have turned to drink in his shoes.
OOOH! Now you've started something!
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Old 15-07-2014, 20:35
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Everybody is conspiring against him too.
Leanne knew exactly what she was doing when she dragged Curly down the road to watch him get hauled off by the bill.
What with Peter and Nick now off the scene, Curly is fast running out of midriffs to cry into.
Not that she cared.

Then we have Trace, his own sis who can spot a murderer at twenty paces, but not when he's led in her own bed.
The daft, sexy bint.

Even kindly Deirdre is now having grave misgivings about Peter's innocence, whilst those two real murderers are upstairs in her house having rumpy-pumpy.

It's not looking for Peter at all, not now those two clever detectives have his number.
He'd better hoped the lags still make moonshine in clink.
He should start crying into Rob's tummy - he might be willing to have Peter free just to get rid of the little brat.
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Old 15-07-2014, 20:41
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And his fingerprints should have been found in the flat (he can't have got rid of all of them with that frantic wiping off surfaces) and he also lives in the house where blood was found in the out house. And he had history of altercations with Tina - she threw a brick through the shop wondow remember and he's snogged her.
Exactly. Also given that Peter confessed his affair to Carla before the murder and he was so upfront with the police in general, it beggars belief that the brother of the woman who had more of a motive than peter, wasn't taken in for stricter questioning

It's terrible writing. I know belief has to be suspended but police procedure should be portrayed more accurately. Corrie is by no means the only soap guilty of this though
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Old 15-07-2014, 20:44
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And his fingerprints should have been found in the flat (he can't have got rid of all of them with that frantic wiping off surfaces) and he also lives in the house where blood was found in the out house. And he had history of altercations with Tina - she threw a brick through the shop wondow remember and he's snogged her.
And he's an ex-convict with a woman who was imprisoned for murder as a partner. How do the police know if Rob himself was not also having an affair with Tina or had had one in the past? They seem obsessed with Peter having the motive to kill Tina but don't seem to have even looked at the theory that someone like Rob might have killed her instead (and they appear to have discounted him as a suspect solely on the basis of Tracy providing him with an alibi).
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Old 15-07-2014, 20:48
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OOOH! Now you've started something!
Maybe. I know not everybody views addictions in that way and of course it isn't a disease like Cancer - there are things the sufferor can do to help themselves unlike many other illnesses but I do.
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Old 15-07-2014, 20:56
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And he's an ex-convict with a woman who was imprisoned for murder as a partner. How do the police know if Rob himself was not also having an affair with Tina or had had one in the past? They seem obsessed with Peter having the motive to kill Tina but don't seem to have even looked at the theory that someone like Rob might have killed her instead (and they appear to have discounted him as a suspect solely on the basis of Tracy providing him with an alibi).
It does seem to be the alibi that has knocked them both of the list but that is very short sighted - they are a couple who could easily be lying to cover for the other. Couples do it all the time - they have nobody else to back up their stories. And given they are the man who was having an affair with the victims sister and his betrayed wife's brother they should be top of the suspect list. Even without the history of Tina protesting against the shop which surely somebody has told the Police about if they'd asked if Tina had enemies, recent arguments.
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Old 15-07-2014, 21:13
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Chris Gascoyne is a brilliant actor.

From the beginning this has been about Carla being stuck in the middle of Rob and Peter and them forcing her to choose and I think the SL will end in a similar way. Perhaps with Carla being the one who has to turn her brother into the police to save Peter.

So far she doesn't appear to be convinced that Peter is guilty, it's pretty obvious that she still loves him and she still seems to want to defend him all the time. I assume that will change now that he has been charged and especially with Rob dripping poison in her ear, but ultimately, Carla has to discover what her brother has done and why he did it.

I doubt that this will happen but I think it could be interesting if Jim revealed that he has had his 'contacts' spying on Liz's new boyfriend and that these people actually saw Tracy and Tony together the night Tina was attacked. If Jim then mentioned this to Peter, he'd know that Rob lied about where he was and surely the penny would drop. They could even be in prison with the man who handed over the stolen goods to Tony and Tracy.
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Old 15-07-2014, 22:32
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And his fingerprints should have been found in the flat (he can't have got rid of all of them with that frantic wiping off surfaces) and he also lives in the house where blood was found in the out house. And he had history of altercations with Tina - she threw a brick through the shop wondow remember and he's snogged her.
I remember the police asking Rob about that, so he was questioned at one point.
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Old 15-07-2014, 22:41
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I remember the police asking Rob about that, so he was questioned at one point.
Yes they did ask him about it but being interviewed once doesn't mean it shouldn't still be part of a bigger picture on their suspect list.

They interviewed him the first day along with every other resident on the Street but since then, nothing.
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Old 15-07-2014, 23:01
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It's all his own doing, he is selfish
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Old 16-07-2014, 08:36
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It's all his own doing, he is selfish
Lots of people are selfish - that doesn't mean they should all be imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit. Peter was wrong to have an affair and drink but how could he possibly know that would lead to Rob killing Tina? Also, when Tina threatened to reveal the affair he went straight home and told Carla the truth, unlike Rob who finished her off (though I accept that pushing her off the balcony was in the heat of the moment and he may not have meant for that to happen).
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Old 16-07-2014, 09:07
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And it was very obvious he knew nothing about the bracelet which, if he was the murderer, he clearly would have done - Deirdre was sat right next to him and saw his reaction when Rob and Tracy walked in and told them Steph had kicked up a fuss about it.
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Old 16-07-2014, 09:59
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It does seem to be the alibi that has knocked them both of the list but that is very short sighted - they are a couple who could easily be lying to cover for the other. Couples do it all the time - they have nobody else to back up their stories. And given they are the man who was having an affair with the victims sister and his betrayed wife's brother they should be top of the suspect list. Even without the history of Tina protesting against the shop which surely somebody has told the Police about if they'd asked if Tina had enemies, recent arguments.
The police's attitude to Peter seems to be "It must have been him" and trying to build the evidence around that it ie. very reminiscent of the shoddy detective work you usually see in miscarriages of justice. To compound that, their actual case against him seems very flimsy.

In real life, they would be very open to the idea that it may not be him at all and that it might be someone else within Tina's social circle.
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