DC Holden was the police officer who investigated after Abi Franklin torched Ray Crosby's car in an act of revenge in February 2020. Abi had enjoyed what she considered a romance with Ray, seeing in him the rich man of her dreams and an expression of how she had turned her life around, not realising that to the sexual predator she was just another notch on the bedpost.
Her eyes were opened when Alya Nazir, who Ray had tried to bed in the Drawbridge Hotel, told her what had happened and Weatherfield Gazette editor Cindy Watson confirmed that the rumours about him were probably true. Exposing Ray in front of his guests at a charity night in the Viaduct Bistro, she saw red when he told her she was just a "junkie slag" and stole his vehicle, dumping it on Albert Road where she set it on fire.
When Ray reported the matter to the police, Abi realised she had gone too far and tried to find an alibi. Sally Metcalfe refused to help, fearing a spell in prison, and Abi was soon taken to Weatherfield Police Station by DC Holden for questioning. Paula Martin advised her to plead guilty if she had committed the crime, although with her previous prison record she might face a sentence of three to five years. Hearing this, Abi answered "no comment" to every question put to her, even though as Paula pointed out to him that he had no witnesses, no evidence, and no CCTV footage. Abi offered an alibi that she was watching television and was surprised when Kevin Webster, who carried a torch for her, came forward to say she had been with him on the night in question.
The two celebrated her being released but were stopped in their tracks when Holden began to investigate Kevin's movements instead, coming up with CCTV footage of his car being seen on Rosamund Street on the 14th February and asking who had been driving the car if the two had been in 13 Coronation Street watching television. Kevin quickly changed his story to say that he had forgotten that he and Abi had been collecting a car part in Castlefield when in reality he had been making the call on his own. Holden looked into this new line of enquiry and found other footage of Kevin on Medlock Street in Manchester, but on his own. Kevin was threatened with a charge of perverting the course of justice. In the meantime, Ray came up with a friend's dashcam footage and exacted a terrible revenge for dropping the charge by making him sign over the garage business over to him and effectively taking Kevin and Tyrone Dobbs on as his employees.
In October 2022, Holden called with an officer to 6 Coronation Street to tell Stu Carpenter that new evidence had come to light which indicated that his daughter Bridget Woodrow had murdered teenager Charlie Walter in the late 1980s; a crime to which Stu had confessed to under coercion and had then served twenty-seven years in jail for. Stu had himself been made aware of who the real culprit was only the day before when a guilt-ridden Bridget confessed to her father. To protect her, he wanted the people who were fighting to prove his innocence to drop the matter but he was unaware that two of his supporters, Alya Nazir and Dee-Dee Bailey, had secretly obtained a DNA sample from his ex-wife Lucy, who they suspected of being the killer and had obtained a successful match from both parents indicating Bridget was the culprit. Forced by procedure to hand this evidence over to the police, the case was reopened and Holden came to the house to arrest Bridget. Stu lied that he didn't know his daughter’s wher abouts just before she came down the stairs to give herself in against her father’s protests. Holden took Bridget away and she and her mother was subsequently jailed for murder and perverting the course of justice respectively.
List of appearances[]
2020
2022