Roy Cropper makes fatal mistake as appeal is launched to find missing Lauren Bolton in Coronation Street

LAUREN Bolton has mysteriously vanished from the cobbles and Bobby Crawford is desperate to find her.

But when Coronation Street legend Roy Cropper is asked to help find her, he makes a huge mistake - and suspicions arise.

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Fears are growing for the safety of Weatherfield teen Lauren Bolton (portrayed by Cait Fitton).

After getting the boot from Roy Cropper's café, the wayward character decided to leave the cobbles behind for a fresh start.

Prior to her disappearance, Lauren was also trying to avoid a persistent ex-boyfriend, much to Bobby Crawford's annoyance.

Since she's vanished, Bobby (Jack Carroll) has been looking for clues in the Street and even reported Lauren missing.

In scenes due on ITV next week, the lad records an appeal with Suki from the local Gazette in order to find Lauren.

Roy Cropper (David Neilson) gets involved but when he's interviewed by Suki, his appeal proves to be underwhelming and Bobby listens in despair.

Later on, Evelyn Plummer (Maureen Lipman), who had to leave No.9 following Fiz Stape's return to the cobbles, apologetically tells Roy that she’s had to let Lauren’s flat go as the landlord found out she’d been sub-letting it.

Full of certainty, despite the circumstances, Roy assures her that Lauren will be fine and he’s convinced that she’s started afresh somewhere new. 

As mentioned above, Lauren was booted out of Roy's Rolls but, later on, the café owner felt guilty for firing her and dropped her wages off at her home.

Once there, Lauren expressed her desire to move on from Weatherfield after a string of tough months which involved her signing up for sex work website O-Vidz, in a bid to make ends meet.

In other scenes, when Roy discovers Evelyn is going to get charged for the terrible state Lauren’s flat has been left in, he takes responsibility for cleaning it up - and getting rid of any evidence that could help the search for Lauren.

But Bobby is deeply suspicious when he discovers Roy in the flat going through Lauren’s things.

Later, Bobby calls at No.8 and fills Max Turner (Paddy Bever) in on his search for Lauren.

When Max tells him that Lauren had two O-Vidz accounts and Ryan Connor reported her for the first one, Bobby’s intrigued.

Bobby starts his search on the platform before telling his aunt Carla Connor (Alison King) and Ryan (Ryan Prescott) that someone called DirtyNigel54 posted online that they’ve spotted Lauren and he’s off to meet them to find out more. 

What could Bobby find out?

More importantly, what has happened to Lauren?

Could Roy know something about her disappearance?

Roy star David Neilson was recently seen filming court scenes alongside Joel Deering actor Calum Lill, Mollie Gallagher aka Roy's niece Nina Lucas and Alison King.

While the character is a fan favourite, one theory emerged online according to which he could take the fall for Lauren's disappearance.

Meanwhile, other fans of the Manchester-based program are convinced Lauren's ex-boyfriend may be to blame and they have their thoughts on who he could be.

How will it play out?

Will Lauren be found?

Coronation Street airs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8pm on ITV.

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