The Clown of Pevensey Bay
Well-known member
Embargoed to 0001 Tuesday April 3
(with pix)
SOAP MURDERER TRACY BEGINS LIFE BEHIND BARS
By Kim Pilling, PA
Scheming murderer Tracy Barlow sits alone in her prison cell with nothing for
company but a picture of her daughter.
The cold-blooded killer, played by Kate Ford, has begun life behind bars
following her guilty verdict for murder shown in last night's gripping episode
of Coronation Street.
Unlike her mother Deirdre, who was sensationally jailed in 1998 for a fraud
she did not commit, Tracy is guilty as charged.
Deirdre's prison term sparked a national campaign to release her which even
received the backing of Prime Minister Tony Blair.
However, Tracy is set to serve her full 15-year sentence for bashing boyfriend
Charlie Stubbs on the head with an ornament.
Her fate now decided, these dramatic pictures are from an episode of the ITV1
soap due to be screened on Sunday April 8. This is the first and last time that
fans will see Tracy as she turns her back on her family when they refuse to fund
an appeal for her.
Her daughter, Amy, will leave the Barlow household to begin life with her
father, Steve McDonald.
Viewers previously watched super-bitch Tracy confess her guilt to her mother,
played by Anne Kirkbride, who then had to wrestle with her conscience over
whether to tell the truth.
Two endings to the court case were filmed but producers decided that the only
option was to see Tracy go down as she had falsely claimed to be the victim of
domestic abuse after a violent and pre-meditated murder.
A spokesman said: "Coronation Street is a moral show where cheats and
murderers rarely prosper, so there was no way Tracy could ever get away with
this crime."
end
021520 APR 07
(with pix)
SOAP MURDERER TRACY BEGINS LIFE BEHIND BARS
By Kim Pilling, PA
Scheming murderer Tracy Barlow sits alone in her prison cell with nothing for
company but a picture of her daughter.
The cold-blooded killer, played by Kate Ford, has begun life behind bars
following her guilty verdict for murder shown in last night's gripping episode
of Coronation Street.
Unlike her mother Deirdre, who was sensationally jailed in 1998 for a fraud
she did not commit, Tracy is guilty as charged.
Deirdre's prison term sparked a national campaign to release her which even
received the backing of Prime Minister Tony Blair.
However, Tracy is set to serve her full 15-year sentence for bashing boyfriend
Charlie Stubbs on the head with an ornament.
Her fate now decided, these dramatic pictures are from an episode of the ITV1
soap due to be screened on Sunday April 8. This is the first and last time that
fans will see Tracy as she turns her back on her family when they refuse to fund
an appeal for her.
Her daughter, Amy, will leave the Barlow household to begin life with her
father, Steve McDonald.
Viewers previously watched super-bitch Tracy confess her guilt to her mother,
played by Anne Kirkbride, who then had to wrestle with her conscience over
whether to tell the truth.
Two endings to the court case were filmed but producers decided that the only
option was to see Tracy go down as she had falsely claimed to be the victim of
domestic abuse after a violent and pre-meditated murder.
A spokesman said: "Coronation Street is a moral show where cheats and
murderers rarely prosper, so there was no way Tracy could ever get away with
this crime."
end
021520 APR 07