In 2011, Helen's character was at the centre of a teenage love story – with her teacher, John Stape. John, who was working at the local school started teaching Rosie's mum, Sally Webster before ...

ITV's Coronation Street's Hope Stape star unrecognisable in first-ever soap appearance ...

He had been inspired to carry out the killing by a plot in the soap opera, where one of the characters – John Stape – had killed a woman with a hammer. Bartlam was jailed for 16 years in April ...