Michael Lafferty

Ex-Wife: Beatrice "Bee" Edmunds

Wife: Linda Hoover

Son: Ralph Thomas Lafferty

Teacher

Married to Rosie Smith (2005-2006)

Michael Andrew Lafferty who was known as **Mike** during his time on Richard Street, was born 29th September 1935 in Norfolk to his parents John and Vera Lafferty. He was murdered on 6th January 2006 by his wife Linda after years of torment and abuse

He made his first appearance on Richard Street on 11th January 2002, He returned to meet his ex-partner Linda Hoover, where he was known to be very Abusive and would whack her and beat her up when he was angry and not in the garden and would regularly false imprison her and use verbal abuse on her. He originally turned up to a very bad reaction where she glassed him on the eyebrow and was in great fear on him and even called the police but after a few weeks of persuasion she finally met him at The Pub and they got talking and he managed to convince her after many months he was a changed man and wanted her back. The couple finally got back together again on 2nd August 2002 and had a kiss while watching TV together. Andy struggled to see any good in this man. During this time Michael sold up in Bolton and bought the recently available 8 Richard Street and convinced Linda to move in with him. Andy was furious at this and begged his mother not to move in with him.

They officially announced on Christmas Day 2002 they were partners and Andy and Rosalina were furious about this calling him an abuser and reminding her of the scars he left her with and this caused an alteration between Andy and Mike and a fight occured in which Andy broke Michaels nose, Linda was disgusted about this and told Andy and Rosalina she didnt wanna see them again until they supported Mike and Linda. On 18th February 2003 after convincing from his wife that maybe Mike has really changed and to give him a chance and they live next door so Andy can always check in on them. He reconsiled with his mother and apologized to Mike who decided to forgive him and they all move on. Michael and Linda's relationship continued normally and healthiy throughout 2003 with Mike becoming quite influential and joined the local council quickly moving up to Chairman due to his people skills. Andy and him started becoming friends

In November 2003 he ran to become Mayor of Salford which is the Suburb which Richard Street is in and won in a landslide victory under The Labour Party who have contolled the area since 1990 and former resident Percy Chapman ran for the election back in 1994. Michael continued to gain masses amount of respect in the street and the relationship with him and Linda blossomed more than ever.

On 1st January 2004 a major incident happened when at a party in The Richard Street Pub he had a major stroke and ambulances had to be called to the scene in which Linda and Andy quickly hurried to check on how he was doing at the time he was in intensive care and the damage was not known yet. He woke up out of a medical induced coma on 5th January 2004 when it was revealed to him he lost his hearing in one ear and function in one his legs. He was distraught and Linda comforted him for the rest of his life he was bound with a walking stick which made him feel embarrassed and angered him

On 20th March 2004 He returned to work as Mayor of Salford having the choice to resign but instead decided to carry on. At this point he started becoming extremely paranoid that he does not have much longer left in life and bought a wedding ring and proposed to Linda to which she accepted and the couple became engaged on 4th April 2004. On 10th April 2004 due to his more difficulty with moving around and his day to day tasks he hired a new assistant in his Mayors Office, she was 18 and her name was Rosie Smith and she saw opportunity in the quite mentally weak man and decided to start flirting with him and manipulating him into hating his wife and trying to stirr up romance with him in hopes of financial fortune when he died. Due to this he gained quite a big man attitude thinking he was better than everyone else and started emotionally manipulating and gas-lighting his wife Linda again just like he did years prior while under the scheme of Rosie. She was blind to this due to him being a good cold manipulator and she thought the tablets he was now on due to his stroke were causing these mood swings and convinced herself she was in the wrong when it was the fault of Mike and Rosie.

On 10th May 2004 much to Mikes displeasure he married Linda after his proposal and he was furious as he wanted Rosie and thought he could do better than Linda. This old abusive attitude of years prior came to light when on that night at 10pm he whacked Linda right across the face giving her a very visible black eye. She still felt like it was her fault and put it on his medication when her friends especially Millicent Wines confronted her she made up a fake story that she slipt over onto the kitchen counter, to which Michael also told this story and as he was now trusted everyone believed it to be true. But Millicent was extremely suspicious and kept her eye on the situation.

As Rosie kept showing an interesting and flirting with him promising a good active life with him he became more deluded with this fantasy and the abuse and beatings continued it was just like old times again. She was being beaten black and blue and he locked her in the house so nobody could see her. On 20th December 2004 Linda walked in on Mike and Rosie having sex with eachother and instead of freaking out at him in fear of her own safety she made a cold bath and cried. He bashed into the room and forced her head under water for 5 seconds in a drunken rage saying she should have knocked and not walked in. He treated Rosie much more gentlemanly than he did Linda. On 1st January 2005 he locked her in the house while he went out to the new years eve party, he told fellow street residents she was extremely ill and could not attend but Millicent knew something was up and went over to the house at 1am alone and saw Linda inside having a panic attack due to her anxiety of being alone. She broke the door down and ran in and helda Linda and begged her to say what was going on and she admitted to what had been happening over the last few months and how he hasn't changed and he is having an affair and Millicent was furious and tried to convince Linda to call the police which she was about too until Mike barged in completely drunk and the fear ran through Linda and she quickly changed her mind and told Millicent she was lying and Mike ushered Millicent out the door. She was furious and contacted Andy about this and he ran over to check what was going on but instead of walking in on the abuse scene he walked in on Mike and Linda hugging on the couch and put it down to Millicent to trying to start Drama and left.

On 31st March 2005 Mike and Rosie started a bigamist secret marriage together and he changed his will to give everything to Rosie. Linda was scared cause Mike had been missing for a week and was about to ring him but was in fear he would get angry at her. He returned on 4th April 2005 on there wedding engagement anniversary and when she questioned if he even loved her he grabbed her by the neck and made her beg to him and she did and he threw her on the floor and went to bed. Mike had fully lost his love with Linda and was back to his cold sadistic character and Linda was trapped as everyone liked him, including her deluding herself into thinking he was a good person. Mike started donating many of his salary to Rosie in hopes for keeping her interest in him.

On June 7th 2005 Millicent knew for sure something was wrong and hired a private investigator called Tim Shields to spy on Mike and Linda. In which he started stalking Mike and Linda to catch abuse on camera so Millicent could finally expose Mike and report him to the police. On 4th July 2005 he was sneaking around in the backgarden trying to catch footage after already catching a video of Linda crying on the floor when Andy Moore caught him and assumed it was a pervert trying to catch photos of a woman so Andy beat him severely and Tim notified Millicent he was pulling out of the investigation as he found it too dangerous to work in. So Mike got away with his abuse again

On 2nd September 2005 Millicent kept trying to talk to convince all the beatings and manipulation and cheating was abuse and that he is an evil man who is using her she initially went through denial