Ian is charged with murder

Ian is charged with murder
Ian is charged with murder (Image credit: BBC)

Ian and Jane are horrified as the police ransack their house. Meanwhile, Janine is with Marsden and tells her that Ian confessed to murdering Archie then threw the laptop with the recording into the canal. Marsden interviews Ian, who refuses to answer any questions. When Marsden produces the laptop that has been found in the canal. Ian breaks down and confesses that he stole the laptop but he denies killing Archie. Marsden charges Ian with murder. Stacey asks Bradley if it's OK for Becca to stay but Bradley isn't keen. Stacey gets angry and tells Bradley that Becca is a friend and she has nowhere else to go. Bradley doesn't want Stacey to take responsibility for someone else when she is still fragile. Later, Stacey leaves Bradley a note to say she's gone to get Becca. Bradley and Jean are concerned. Denise teases Lucas about his 'fan club' at the community centre. Denise takes Lucas a sandwich at the community centre and is wound up when she sees Loretta's outrageous flirting with Lucas. Denise storms home. Lucas is annoyed by Denise's jealousy. Also, Jack gets hold of Glenda's address and offers to go with Ronnie to find her mother. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.