BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Episode 548 25th October 2007, ITV1, 8PM

When a call comes in reporting a disturbance, Diane is keen to attend as the trouble is at her block of flats. She discovers her neighbour Steve Myatt has been hit over the head with an iron. Alun, another neighbour, from Diane’s mansion block called in the incident. Elsewhere Steve’s wife is having some sort of breakdown out in a nearby street.

Beaten hubby Steve admits his wife attacked him with the iron, but he doesn’t want to press charges. The police notice his wife Angela has really bad burns but Steve claims not to know about them. Trying to convince Diane and Stone its true, Steve goes on to say they’ve been sleeping apart for months – Angela’s really distant with him.

When revealing photos are found of Angela along with a threatening note, it looks like Angela’s being blackmailed. The burn marks seem to be from her self harming under the stress. Trying to get to the bottom of it all, Diane’s flat is used to spy on her troublesome neighbours.

Elsewhere Smithy runs in to Carly Samuels again, Canley’s reluctant teenage mum who’s forever dumping her baby on her own mum. After a conned pensioner kicks up a fuss over being sold dodgy raffle tickets in the high street, Smithy tries to encourage Carly to stay on the right side of the law.

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