Coronation Street fans have been left confused after seeing John Stape's face on screen again.
Fiz Stape's serial killer ex left the soap in June 2011, after crashing his car following his kidnap of Rosie Webster. Before his departure he killed two people, Charlotte Hoyle and Joy Fishwick.
Recent episodes have seen Fiz and her partner Tyrone desperately trying to stop a book about John Stape's crimes being published. They were worried about the trauma it would cause their daughter Hope, the biological daughter of John.
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And one scene during Friday's episode showed John Stape back on our screens for the first time in more than a decade, but not as you might imagine. The local book shop seemingly had a huge cardboard cut-out of a smiling John as part of its promotion of the new book.
In a bid to protect his daughter, Tyrone visited the book shop on the day of the book's release, buying all the copies so nobody else could read them. He also stole the life-size cut-out, and hid it at number 9.
On seeing the cardboard image of Mr Stape, a number of fans were confused. Taking to Twitter, Suzi said: "As if they would promote a murderer’s book in a book shop with a cardboard cut-out of them! Also, where did they get the posed image from?"
Lidz said: "In what world would a bookshop have a cardboard cut-out of a SERIAL KILLER? Book or no book". Nick said: "Why would a bookshop have a life-size standee cut-out of an actual local serial killer?"
Coronation Street airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on ITV and the ITV Hub
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