Frank Bradley

Frank Bradley, played by Tommy Boyle was a petty thief who had an on/off relationship with Bet Lynch.

In 1970e arrived in Weatherfield with fellow parollee Jud Johnson hoping to find an old friend of theirs, Ray Langton. He was employed as a carpenter by Ernest Bishop but stole one of his cameras from him and, threatening to blame the theft on him, tried to coerce Ray into commiting a bank robbery with them. Ken Barlow, posing as a police officer, managed to trick him into returning the camera.

It was during this time that he first became Bet's lover despite being almost half her age. Billy Walker found that Frank had been using his garage to disguise stolen cars but Bet persuaded him not to call in the police. She tried to help Frank go straight but he felt that Bet was becoming too atatched to him and so left town, leaving a devastated Bet behind.

The following year mugged Lucille Hewitt, stealing the takings from Dave Smiths Betting shop. Frank began seeing Bet again but Lucille later recognised his voice. Frank begged Bet to keep quiet about his part in the crime but she was unable to bear the guilt. Rather than go to the police, though, she told Dave Smith who visited him with a couple of 'associates' who meted out brutal justice to him.

By 1975 Frank had found regular employment as a drayman for the brewery and once again arranged to meet Bet. He was frightened away by Sean Regan who still insisted on making overtures on Bet.