Vanessa (Episode 8988)

Vanessa was the manager of a clothing firm called The King's Robes and a friend of Aidan Connor's. He asked her if she could find a position for Caz Hammond, the former fiancee of his sister Kate Connor who had started to show some strange tendencies which involved falling so deeply in love with her that she clung to her to the point of losing her job in the army and lying about her health. After breaking up with Kate and sleeping rough, she had then become attracted to an unsuspecting Maria Connor and Aidan saw the job that Vanessa could offer as a means to get her out of the way of his sister, if not Maria as well.

Vanessa had a meeting with Caz in Underworld where she praised her army skills and heard that she had left the forces as she needed new challenges. Vanessa said that she had the right computer skills and that she seemed keen so offered her the job - in a new branch in Newcastle upon Tyne. Caz realised she was being set up and turned the job down flat.