Originally Posted by Ten_Ben:
“Yes, this is ridiculous. Kate's reaction, Maria's friends' reaction, the marriage...
The whole thing is ridiculous TBH and any plod worth their salt should be able to see through Maria's sham marriage in two minutes. As if a backstreet hairdresser is going to split their time between Weatherfield and a husband in London whilst maintaining two residences. We already know that hubby is potless, so there's no way she'd ever be able to show that her finances can cover it all and that's before you consider how she fits her son into it all. She really should be looking a whatever the maximum penalties are for fraud but I bet Corrie brushes most of it under the carpet.”
At least they are making some effort to show the consequences of Maria's moment of complete madness!!
Hopefully once it is established, as it surely will be eventually, that she is completely innocent of any wrongdoing in the Caz affair they will take her previously good character into account, see the whole marriage thing for what it was, a kind but very misguided attempt to help somebody & will be more lenient in their sentencing over the illegal marriage!! Prisons are full enough of real criminals without shoving the Marias of this
world into them!!
In the meantime I shall look forward to all the twists & turns of this storyline that lead to that decision!!