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He said: "When we first talked about the story, there was one killer - but something did not fit right about that person. It was a very clever idea, but it didn't come from the heart.

"So Sharon Batten (story producer), Alex Lamb (story producer) Manpreet Dosanjh (script producer) and I locked ourselves away in a hotel room to come up with an alternative killer.

Does that mean the Les leak was true and they've had to change it?

Or Lauren?

I hope its not Ben, he only just came back, I want him to stay on!

No. From the way it was written I take it to mean when they were first brainstorming the plot. You can guarantee Les was never in line to actually be the killer. That was just a hoax.

That's what I took it to mean as well. When the plot was first suggested they had everything worked out but decided to change it before they actually started filming any of it. Hence the 'only 4 people knowing' which we have been told from the start - it is the 4 people that were in the brainstorming session.

I think he makes it clear that this was before the story had even been written/made it to air.

I think most people have it spot on. When he originally conceived the idea he had one person in mind but then when the storyline was being putting together by the writing team, he realised the killer he originally wrote the storyline for just didn't make sense.

Just out of curiosity, which soap is this about? I don't think it.s Corrie.

I love how this forum never fails to take one comment and make it something completely different.

When they first planned to kill Lucy they came up with a plot but the character who they chose to be her killer didn't fit the story properly so they started again and reconstructed.

Nothing there about changes because of leaks or changes since the story actually began.

"When we first discussed the plot..." isn't going to be two months after she died on screen and the Les rumours were flying.

It'd be interesting to see who they originally picked.

It's funny because the original killer must have been the instinctive choice, maybe someone like Lauren or Peter, and then they chose to re-jig the storyline, perhaps because it opened up more stories?

I have to say I'm convinced the killer is someone very close to the family. Treadwell-Collins has always said it's a story that's come from the heart, so how tragic would it be if the killer was someone the Beale's trusted, like Jane or Denise, or even one of their own?

Ben was robbing a shop and killed lucy by accident ben and jay went to hide the body and made it look like a mugging could of been a good one , it was only jay who got of the bus with her , peter and lauren dont drive so how could they get where she was that quick from party , could still be max , if it was funeral directors itd be waste cause they could of had serial killer story line on and there would be other murders

I hope we are kept guessing til the last minute

Lauren does drive, albeit not very well! She ran Max over and crashed Derek's car.

Greg taught her and she passed her test in 2011. She drove herself and Lucy to the student flats in the week Lucy died.