Chapman

Chapman was a burglar in the 1980s who worked alongside his mates called John Clark and Harry Jugson. He died after being shot in the back by Jacob Sandwich, the owner of Carlton Cottage.
== Biography ==
=== Life ===
While he was alive, Chapman was an untrustworthy man who was always up to no good. He was born in 1953 and his father died of a drug overdose just two years later and Chapman grew up with six different step-fathers until he left home at sixteen and took his younger brother, Will, who was only ten, with him. His mother made no effort to track them down and let them leave. Chapman began work as a car mechanic when he was 20 years old and it was there that he first met Harry Jugson and John Clark. Clark was also a car mechanic and Jugson was the garage owner’s son. The trio first burglarised a house three years after they met on a night when they broke open the back door of someone’s house and stole everything inside, which they later sold to a pawn shop. The three enjoyed this kind of lifestyle, as it provided them with extra money and they found it challenging but doable. In the early March of 1984, Chapman and his gang arrived at the edge of Carlton Cottage’s grounds in a pickup truck driven by Will Chapman, and prepared to break in. Jugson, Chapman and Clark all went up to the back of the house and smashed the door in, and entered the house. They began to steal various items from around the house and Chapman and Jugson even carried off the television. However, Clark accidentally knocked over a glass vase in the hallway, waking up a drunk Jacob Sandwich, who grabbed his gun and ran downstairs to ward off the burglars. Chapman, Jugson and Clark immediately fled, but Sandwich was in hot pursuit and opened fire with his shotgun, firing out into the dark garden. He managed to hit Jugson in the back of his thigh, wounding him, and hit Chapman in the back, killing him.
=== Death ===
As a ghost, Chapman has the ghostly ability to unlock doors, windows and other locked items if he wishes to. This is probably because he was a master burglar while he was alive. Chapman met the other ghosts, Henry Carlton, John the Monk, Lizzie, Jennifer, Harold and Steve. He became good friends with Harold and Steve as they sympathised with him most, Steve, because their deaths were only six years apart and Harold because they both “pillaged off other people’s!” As Harold put it. When Calvin Briars died in 1992, he told them that they should form a group of ghosts called the “lads”. Chapman was enthusiastic about this and became one of the lads along with Calvin, Steve, Harold and eventually Judge Custard when he died. Chapman didn’t mind Hannah Linton being rather old and boring, because it meant she never noticed him messing with all sorts of locks and things. In the episode Get Out of My House! , he mentions that he once enabled a thief to steal Mrs. Linton’s car by using his ghost power to unlock it. 
Category:Manchester Series
Category:Ghosts