Stu Carpenter was left stunned by the news of his compensation for wrongful imprisonment on Coronation Street as Alya Nazir reacted with horror. It wasn't the news that either of them had been expecting, for different reasons, as Dee-Dee Bailey told Stu the amount he will receive for serving 27 years behind bars for a murder he didn't commit.
Last year the identity of the person who had killed waitress Charlie Walter was finally disclosed. Stu did the time for the murder of the young woman he had been having an affair with, and after being released from prison he ended up jobless and homeless.
He was helped to rebuild his life by his friends in Weatherfield including Kelly Neelan, Alya and her gran Yasmeen and he found employment as a chef at Speed Daal and a home at 6 Coronation Street.
