Max Turner (Paddy Bever) remained in prison for the crime after confessing to protecting the family. real killer, girlfriend Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton).

David Platt (Jack P Shepherd) arranged for a “skilled lawyer” to take on Max’s case, but when his adopted son refused to visit him, David angrily accused Lauren of murder and ruining Max’s life.

He was horrified when Lauren told him that his wife Shona’s (Julia Goulding) son Clayton Hibbs (Callum Harrison) had attempted suicide in prison and that Max might do the same.

Lauren soon asked Shona if it was true and a heart-to-heart conversation led to Lauren breaking down and confessing the whole truth to a stunned Shona.

Pleading with Shona to understand that it had been Max’s idea to take the blame and that they believed he would not go through with it, Lauren handed over Max’s letter detailing the plan, which Shona showed to a furious David.

David wasted no time in giving the note to the police. DC Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) Lauren was arrested as she tearfully pleaded not to be taken away from her baby son, Frankie.

In the interview room, Lauren stuck to the false narrative that Max shot Joel in self-defense, but Kit knew she was lying and showed her Max’s letter.

Cornered, Lauren admitted that she had actually delivered the fatal blow by stopping Joel from strangling Max.

Kit revealed that she was devastated when she realized Lauren was likely to be charged with murder and that she might have broken up with Frankie permanently.

Will Max be released or face punishment for perverting the course of justice? So will Lauren receive a life sentence?

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