Coronation Street fans were aghast as Fiz Stape told her daughter Hope about her late father John in Monday night's episode. Corrie viewers blasted Fiz for glossing over the truth as she gave 11-year-old Hope a potted history of the serial killer teacher.
Soap devotees accused Fiz of 'victim blaming' his former pupil Rosie Webster, who John had an affair with when she was 16, as she tried to explain to Hope what had driven John to kidnap and kill. John's affair with Rosie was exposed in dramatic fashion on Christmas Day 2007.
Kevin Webster attacked John when he found out that the teacher had been sleeping with his daughter. He was fired from his job but blamed Rosie for the downturn in his fortunes and kidnapped her, locking her up in his dead grandmother’s attic for five weeks before she managed to escape.
