New New Corrie thread

It’s even more confusing for someone like me who is known to nod off for five minutes 🤣

How long before Police Officer Kit is bedding Sarah?

I didn't like the 'arty' thing either. It might work better with an hour long episode, but 30 minutes (minus adverts) is not long enough to cope with all the to-ing and fro-ing.

I will be pleased when this week is over and we can return to hour long episodes again as I also am confused.com with all of the comings and goings and also seeing very little of Roy, just the odd glimpse.

This Lauren thing has dragged on for so long I am beyond caring what happened and who did it.

I don’t like the revival of the Bethany grooming story again. That’s a dead duck now, so much time has passed by (I do understand in real life the trauma wouldn’t disappear) but as this is a programme made for entertainment, I think we need new storylines, not rehashed old ones.

maddyone

I don’t like the revival of the Bethany grooming story again. That’s a dead duck now, so much time has passed by (I do understand in real life the trauma wouldn’t disappear) but as this is a programme made for entertainment, I think we need new storylines, not rehashed old ones.

Would have been more realistic and honest if it had been asian grooming gangs, but that’s never going to happen.

Not so. The figures suggest that it is far more realistic to have white men as groomers.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67655654#:~:text=However%20the%20HMICFRS%20found%2C%20of,was%20Asian%20or%20British%20Asian.

Not in Rotherham it's not.

What happened in Rotherham (and elsewhere) was horrible, but statistically the majority of child sex abusers are white.

4.3.5 Characteristics of defendants: ethnicity
In the records of defendants prosecuted for child sexual abuse offences in 2021, their broad ethnic background was recorded in 70% (5,163) of cases. Among these individuals, almost nine in 10 (4,573) were White – a higher proportion than in the general population of England and Wales (see Figure 18). This is likely to be related to the overall under- identification of child sexual abuse in minority ethnic communities, and to the fact that White British defendants were more likely than any other ethnic group to be prosecuted for image offences – which accounted for more than two-fifths of child sexual abuse prosecutions in 2021 (see Figure 16 above).
The conviction ratio ranged from 62% for Asian defendants to 88% for White defendants. This too is likely to be related to the offences for which people from different ethnic backgrounds were prosecuted: image offences were more likely than most other child sexual abuse offences to result in a conviction.

Source - www.csacentre.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/09/Child-sexual-abuse-in-2021-22-Trends-in-official-data.pdf

Anyway, whether or not Nathan is involved in Lauren's disappearance, he should still be behind bars regardless of his ethnicity. I don't know how he managed to get out so quickly.

They admit that this was based on very limited data.

True, which is why I posted it . I am in no way excusing what happened in Rotherham and elsewhere, but I don't think that bringing race into the Nathan storyline is remotely relevant.

He would still be in jail outside of Soapland, though. I hope so, anyway.

Yes, interesting as this is, let’s just get back to the rubbish that is Corrie

Dee Dee's boyfriend has been lying low lately. I don't like the cut of his jib, and think if the plan had been to make him a long-term character he'd have had more to do before now, so he must be a baddie. Quite what sort of baddie I don't know, but I doubt we've seen the last of him.

I cant be doing with rereading 19 pages.
And I am I think two episodes behind.

Do we actually think Lauren has even been murdered?
I dont think so?

I do not see magazine covers. Or know any spoilers whatsoever. Which is the way I like things.

I was wondering if a female could have murdered or injured Lauren as her appearance was quite slight. Apparently we will eventually find out tomorrow if I have not dropped off to sleep.

I do not think the producers think it is going as well as they had hoped, for me it is too bitty only being on for 30 minutes including breaks.

I don't like Deedee's boyfriend either but only because he's unattractive and boring. It would be good if it was him though as he'd be off to jail so no longer on our screens.
Meanwhile I do like that poor policewoman.

The general opinion now seem to be that Lauren is dead. I thought perhaps she would pop up and announce that she had been to a retreat too. I keep reading of 'Lauren's murderer' - perhaps this is a red herring and she is alive. I can hardly wait for the revelation - if I don't fall asleep.

So Deedee thought the word cookie was significant! Interesting. And then her boyfriend (forget his name) used the word, although it was in a familiar expression the way the cookie crumbles and she got rid of him pretty quickly then. So did he do the dirty deed? Tune in tomorrow to find out. Maybe.

Deedee is looking very good she looks as if she’s lost quite a bit of weight

I didn't catch the 'cookie' implication. What does it mean. She certainly has lost a lot of weight.

I missed any cookie reference too Avaline

Well it came over to me as if she thought that word was significant. And before that she was talking about to Roy about the careful use of punctuation in the texts, which unfortunately mirrored Roy’s, and then later she picked up on the word cookie as if it had maybe been used in the text, and then her boyfriend said it, and a look crossed her face and she told him to go. Or maybe I’m slowly going mad with the election talk that’s already draining my will to live and so I’m reading too much into it.
We shall see.

Poor Roy.
I am not enjoying this storyline at all, hope it concludes soon.
For what it's worth (not a lot) I don't think Lauren is dead.

Doodledog

What happened in Rotherham (and elsewhere) was horrible, but statistically the majority of child sex abusers are white.

4.3.5 Characteristics of defendants: ethnicity
In the records of defendants prosecuted for child sexual abuse offences in 2021, their broad ethnic background was recorded in 70% (5,163) of cases. Among these individuals, almost nine in 10 (4,573) were White – a higher proportion than in the general population of England and Wales (see Figure 18). This is likely to be related to the overall under- identification of child sexual abuse in minority ethnic communities, and to the fact that White British defendants were more likely than any other ethnic group to be prosecuted for image offences – which accounted for more than two-fifths of child sexual abuse prosecutions in 2021 (see Figure 16 above).
The conviction ratio ranged from 62% for Asian defendants to 88% for White defendants. This too is likely to be related to the offences for which people from different ethnic backgrounds were prosecuted: image offences were more likely than most other child sexual abuse offences to result in a conviction.

Source - www.csacentre.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/09/Child-sexual-abuse-in-2021-22-Trends-in-official-data.pdf

Anyway, whether or not Nathan is involved in Lauren's disappearance, he should still be behind bars regardless of his ethnicity. I don't know how he managed to get out so quickly.

Not what Maggie Oliver says. She knows more about this than anybody.

www.themaggieoliverfoundation.com/latest-news/meeting-the-prime-minister-and-home-secretary

They have only just started recording ethnicity of grooming gangs at her insistence.

It seems Hope found Lauren's missing necklace when she was washing cars with Glenda's group. Trouble is I didn't take much notice of the cars being cleaned so I am no farther forward.