WPC Burns

WPC Burns attended two incidents involving Coronation Street residents.

In December 2003, Sarah Platt had trusted Brenda Fearns to take her daughter Bethany to stay with her overnight. Brenda was the maternal grandmother of the child and was suffering after the death of the teenage father and her son Neil three months before. Brenda failed to return Bethany at the appointed time and Sarah and boyfriend Todd Grimshaw started to grow frantic with worry.

They called at Brenda's house where they saw Bethany's favourite doll through the window but no sign of anyone in. They called the police and WPC Burns told them that a check had been made on the hospitals and again on Brenda's place but there was little they could officially do until the child had been missing twenty-four hours. After several more hours, Brenda turned up with Bethany and the excuse that they'd been queuing for a long time in the shops to see Father Christmas. A relieved but furious Sarah and Todd threw Brenda out of their flat.

In June 2005, Burns spoke with Bev Unwin and Deirdre Barlow when they called at the police station to report that Charlie Stubbs had beaten up Bev's daughter Shelley Unwin. In reality, Shelley had, for once, really been the victim of a doorframe in the eye and this, coupled with her agoraphobia, meant that she didn't want to leave her bedroom, a state of affairs that the bullying, controlling Charlie was happy to acquiesce with. Burns told Bev and Deirdre that unless Shelley herself was willing to make a complaint, there was very little that she could do.


 * The character was billed as "WPC Burns" on her first appearance and "PC Burns" on her second.

List of appearances

 * Episode 5638 (1st December 2003)
 * Episode 6045 (8th June 2005)