CORONATION Street fans are predicting a Christmas Day murder after Spider Nugent slipped up. The undercover police officer - who is played by actor Martin Hancock in the ITV soap - is working to bring down far right gang leader Griff.
He has failed so far with a bomb Griff made going off during a camping trip and injuring Max Turner. The teenager was left with serious burns after the explosion but Griff forced him to lie and say it was a camping stove injury when the police turned up.
The police claimed a farmer had reported an explosion but Griff was suspicious. And then Spider made a cock-up. “That was close, flaming nosy farmer sticking their oars in,” said Spider but Griff caught it realising Spider couldn’t have heard what the police said. “Who said it was a farmer?” he said.
Spider tried to play it down, saying: “Or hikers, or whatever. That’s the trouble with the countryside, full of do-gooders.” “Whatever happened, we can’t afford anymore slip ups,” said Griff.
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