DC Dave Brett

DC Dave Brett was the police officer who investigated the crimes of Richard Hillman.

In late 2002, Richard, up to his eyes in debt and his business interests failing, concocted a plan to convince everyone that mother-in-law Audrey Roberts was entering senility and then kill her in a fire in her house which would be put down to an accidental death and her estate would be paid to daughter Gail. Audrey was saved from the fire by Steve McDonald and Archie Shuttleworth and while recovering at Gail's house she overheard Richard talking to her daughter about getting Power of Attorney over her finances. This alerted Audrey to the real reasons behind her supposed memory losses as well as the fire and she and Archie took their suspicions to the police.

They told DC Brett that his Richard had said that the battery was missing from the fire alarm at Audrey's house before investigator Ian Swan went round it (Richard himself having removed it) and that his previous wife Patricia had been mysteriously missing for several months (Richard having killed her). Moreover when a body, which Richard had identified as Patricia's but which later proven not to be, was pulled out of Weatherfield Canal, he had hastily tried to arrange for a cremation. Brett was interested enough to call on Richard and take him down to the station for an interview. Richard remained calm through his interrogation and was able to give convincing answers to several of the points - that Audrey was receiving medical attention for senility and that Richard's missing ex-wife Patricia Hillman, who he had murdered, had not turned up in Australia to meet her best friend Charlotte Morris as she had recently found out that Charlotte had made several passes at Richard and therefore disowned her. The police checked these stories, they were both confirmed as true and Richard was released.

To be completed

List of appearances

 * Episode 5385 (20th November 2002)
 * Episode 5386 (22nd November 2002)
 * Episode 5449 (26th February 2003)
 * Episode 5450 (28th February 2003)
 * Episode 5453 (3rd March 2003)
 * Episode 5454 (5th March 2003)
 * Episode 5460 (14th March 2003)