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19th September 2008: In 2007 teacher John Stape had conducted an ill-advised affair with pupil Rosie Webster. This had been discovered on Christmas Day of that year and had resulted in John being beaten up by Kevin Webster. John's relationship with girlfriend Fiz Brown Also suffered as she left him and he, in turn, left Weatherfield and was forced out of his beloved teaching profession. He returned the next year, took a job as a taxi driver and briefly reconciled with Fiz. The two fell out again though over his plans to move to his late gran's house in the country. Driving his taxi one night, he had been given a job to pick up Rosie in town and the sight of her flirting with boyfriend Saj drove him over the edge. Blaming her for the state of his professional and personal life, he bundled her in his taxi and drove her to his empty gran's house. Rosie's month-long ordeal as a captive was about to begin...
 * For more information see Episode 6908 (19th September 2008).