PC Matthews

PC Matthews was involved in two matters involving residents of Coronation Street.

In September 2013, Karl Foster reached the end of the line after torching the Rovers six months earlier, causing a blaze which killed firefighter Toni Griffiths and then murdering Sunita Alahan who he thought was the only other person who knew he was responsible. Craig Tinker however had seen Karl leaving the empty pub on the night of the fire and he began to terrorise the lad. He broke after a few weeks and told his mother, Beth, all that had happened and the police were alerted. At the same time, Dev Alahan had reached his own conclusions and cornered Karl in the pub where a fight broke out between the two men and Karl's new wife, Stella heard his confessions of murder. He held her in the cellar as the police arrived and DS Willets told Matthews to call for back-up. Within the pub, Stella persuaded Karl to give himself up and it was Matthews who pulled him to the ground to search him before Willets read him his rights and arrested him.

Almost exactly a year later, Matthews called at 15a Victoria Street to see Lloyd Mullaney when a complaint of harassment had been made against him by Neil Beckett. The complaint was vexatious as Neil couldn't stand the fact that Lloyd and his estranged wife Andrea were an item and he was conducting a campaign against the two. Matthews took Lloyd down to Weatherfield Police Station where the matter was dropped though Lloyd was counselled to keep away from Neil in the future, and not the other way round.