It was considered good manners to call your parents friends aunty and uncle if they said you could. (Even if you hated them. Anyway, it meant you were guaranteed the Beano annual at Christmas )

The police said that the phone was bought online. They also said that the credit card was used to withdraw cash from ATMs in London. Maria guessed that Caz had followed her down to London. But using an ATM would require Caz to know the PIN.

Caz would have just got the pin from the second envelope the bank sends.

If it's a replacement card there wouldn't be a new PIN. If it was a new card she would have had to ring or go online - with username and password - to validate it.

The police should contact the online phone company to find out the address the phone was delivered to and a description of who signed for it and copy of the signature. Some of that cross referenced with Maria's movements on the date / time would back her story up.

But Caz had access to Maria's computer, emails etc, so it should have been easy enough to do that.

I guess, then, if she left her username and password on her laptop - and left the laptop available with no password protection - she was a identity theft accident waiting to happen.

Most of us do though. And you only need to have access to the email, and then you can change all the passwords.

Mind you, surely they can tell where Caz's phone was when it received the texts from the PAYG phone? And that would show that Caz and the other phone were in the same place?

I'm not sure that's so, I can't see how access to email could change bank passwords - but let's agree to disagree.

Yep they can find out this information pretty easily, working fairly low down the pecking order for a network we can find out considerable information, the police have powers to find out so much more (which mast is being used for example and in Manchester or London the space between masts is pretty small) but lets not let actual police investigation process/available information get in the way of this ridiculous storyline, just get maria and aiden to sleep together again as this is all this farce is for.

You're not alone Dave. I was brought up exactly the same - Aunties and Uncles were brothers/sisters of my parents not their adult friends - like you, they were known as Mr & Mrs whoever. Even now, decades later, I still refer to them as that!

Yes I realise that Janet - I was just being facetious!

This, all of it but especially BIB

they will probably find a random blood stained knife next week

Caz's body and its location. I am surprised that everyone hasn't realized that it will be in that previously unknown cellar under the hair salon.
Built over when that side of the street was rebuilt and known only to the Platt's and other body snatchers.
It will be securely hidden from view in "The Box", with the giraffe.

If you understand that, you are showing your age!

The thing with the threatening texts. Caz told Tyrone and Fiz that Maria had been sending her threatening texts but how would she know they were from Maria if Maria had supposedly bought a second phone? Ok Maria could have sent messages such as "Caz I'm going to stick a pair of curling tongs up your bum. Love Maria. x". But then why buy a second phone?

This. Maria showed the cards she had and said they were the om;y csrds she had. The police then said hadn't she applied for a new card. She said yes, but that she hadn't used it.

So it was a new card, not a replacement, and she would have been issued with a PIN to go with it, and Caz obviously knew Maria had a applied for the card and waited for the letter which contained the PIN..

Think photos of the supposed burns were pretty horrific - I thought they were so vivid that I wouldn't have thought of anything flippant about the warning instead.

Wonder how many burn accidents there'll be tonight in real life with most fireworks being set off tonight.

So, being a new card, it would need t be validated either online or by telephone using information which Caz should not have known

Very good point. If the new phone was bought online then it would have arrived whilst Maria was in London. How is Caz going to show that Maria popped back to Weatherfield to collect it without her seeing anyone or anyone seeing her (including Liam) and without Pablo being able to back up that she was in London throughout?

It's all very well Caz setting up Maria in this elaborate charade but unless Caz is going to do herself in, as soon as she shows up or is tracked down, then the story will start to unravel. Maria will perhaps be in trouble for her sham marriage but Caz will be guilty of all sorts - theft, fraud, wasting police time etc etc. So what does Caz think her end game is? She's thought it all through pretty thoroughly but how does she expect it to conclude?

Do we know when she ordered the phone? Any reason why she got a new phone - had she lost the old one, or upgrading ? (Maybe that has been explained in the programme, but I can't remember !).

AFAICR it was a surprise to her when the plods mentioned it existed (not that they believed her).

Precisely, why would Maria need a second phone to send threatening texts. The only reason someone would use a PAYG phone in this situation would be in order to send texts without revealing who they are. However Caz said to Tyrone they were from Maria. In which case she could have just used her own phone if she was going to send texts as herself.

I wasn't paying attention as to how the phone was bought so thanks to the responses on that. The PAYG phone would have been posted to Maria's address in Weatherfield which would mean, as someone else said, she would have had to have popped back to Weatherfield to retrieve it. It would have been easier to have bought the phone in London.

This whole storyline has more holes in it than a colander yet the incompetent local plods can't spot them.

Same here. This also goes for former teachers and professors.

Corrie have got their knickers in twist with this Caz SL. Bank cards, mobile phones, Caz being in London and little Maria suspected of murdering her and disposing of the body. I doubt they even know what's supposed to have happened.

I had a replacement debit card earlier this year. I didn't get a new pin and after I had my new card, the old one was only valid for a short time. I had to update my card on a number of websites. Doubt Corrie has taken this into account.