Police Sergeant (Peter Foster)

The Desk Sergeant was on duty at Weatherfield police station when Maria Connor turned up to report Tony Gordon's confession that he had murdered Jed Stone. Although his manner showed that he treated her report with scepticism, he did arrange for her to see DC Weller. However Maria had been set up by Tony. He had attempted to kill Jed at Christmas but the old man had survived and Tony had then packed him off out of the way to Wigan. When the police investigated Maria's claims, which she had also broadcast to everyone in the Rovers, Tony arranged for Jed to make a "surprise" appearance in Weatherfield, thus making everyone believe that Maria was unbalanced and, more importantly, any claims she made that Tony had also murdered Liam Connor (which he had) seem equally spurious.