John Richards

## Info

John Richards was born 14th September 1959 In Southport and is the father of Penelope Richards and Ellis Richards in his lifetime he had 3 wives and was at one point falsely accused for murder and spent 2 years in prison

He moved to Richard Street In 1988 with his new wife Maggie and daughter Penelope

## Adulthood

At Age 28 He Moved Into 19 Richard Street with his wife Maggie and daughter Penelope

At Age 29 As a builder his work got sabotaged by council member Jeffrey Watson and he broke the scaffolding that John was on and it impaled him in the waist and he fell over 10ft in critical condition and the street is in a frenzy about who is trying to sabotage the development of the school in the area

At Age 30 After Arthur Moore hired a private investigator and managed to find out Jeffrey Watson was the man behind it and his fellow con men and he got an injury lawyer to help him and he won over £500,000 in court and with this he becomes wealthy and buys out the builders company from Arthur Moore and with the money Arthur Moore bought into the taxi company

At Age 32 He started a fight in the pub with Harry Tatlock starting their long standing rivalry. This fight started over Harry accidentally taking money off John's desk at work thinking it was just left over cash and John had Harry in a blackmail

At Age 33 John started having an affair with Harry's Daughter Leanne Tatlock who was 19 at the time and she constantly visited him at her fathers work where John still had Harry under blackmail. Leanne initially started this due to hearing about the blackmail and trying to get John to stop it in exchange for sex but eventually she grows a connection to him

At Age 34 The Truth Comes Out about John and Leanne after Harry's brother Norman Tatlock walks in on them and Maggie his wife whacks him out into the street with a frying pan and whacked him onto the floor

At Age 34 Harry Tatlock sleeps with Maggie in revenge and beats up John in his sleep and John nearly goes to the police about him but Maggie begs and pleads with him not too

At Age 35 Maggie as her affair continues with Harry announces to John that she is divorcing him and moves in Harry's house and Leanne is pissed off that Harry is going out with Maggie and moves into John restarting their relationship and fueling John and Harrys Rivalry

At Age 35 Leanne gets pregnant with Johns baby

At Age 36 Ellis Richards is born in The Richard Street Pub after an argument with Harry over John

At Age 36 John proposes to Leanne and she accepts and they decide to marry when tensions calm down after Maggie and Leanne got in a scrap at their factory job over Maggie making up lies to John that Griffith Davies was Ellis real father and John knows the rumour is false and decides to marry her a year into the future

At Age 37 John Richards and Leanne Tatlock get married in their local community church but Maggie and Harry have a plan to ruin their wedding and Harry and bribes the cake company into ruining the occasion and he also smashes John's face in the cake stating that him and Maggie are gonna make his life a misery

At Age 38 Harry plots a dangerous plan and decides to fool John into him getting money and ownership of the building company. For a few months he starts trying to make fake amends with John and manage to gain his trust and get a job as a builder part time to help get money. His plan goes into action and during the night rigs the scaffolding and the bricks into position and the next day and he goes into the right spot and wiggles the scaffolding causing the whole thing to collapse and the bricks to hit his shoulders but he made the injuries look like it hit his head.

At Age 38 John was of course concerned about Harry and during this period of him being in the hospital and Harry laughs in John's face saying he is suing him and his company and taking all his money if John does not leave Leanne and get out of the street and John got enraged and punched Harry in the head 5 times in hospital causing trauma to the head before being kicked out by the security and being arrested by the police

At Age 38 John is arrested for assault and he pleads guilty right away and is forced to pay him £300. He hires a lawyer for the upcoming suing

At Age 39 The case against John starts and Harry hires an expensive lawyer Rutherford Bernstein and John hires the local street lawyer Les White but John has no case to prove that Harry caused this or faked it due to no witnesses or CCTV and the company already had a bad reputation of employee safety and John lost the case and had pay Harry £250,000 which bankrupted the construction business and he gave the company away to his brother Brian Richards

At Age 39 With the house prices rising in the area John had to get a new job of a Receptionist at the local hospital but it was still difficult to make ends meet due to Leanne's laziness and Wantage to be a mother looking after her son. And things get dire for the family and they go on benefits

At Age 40 Harry gets into another fight with John over the court case a few months ago in The Richard Street Pub. Majority of the street backed Harry over his good reputation in the street and how John abandoned Maggie and his daughter Penelope and due to Johns recent anti-social behaviour the only people who really believed him and trusted him was his brother Brian and his best friend Rodger Dumbarton and his wife Leanne Tatlock

At Age 40 John decides enough is enough and everyone in the street hates him and he cant afford the rent on the house anymore and cant find another good builders job in the area so John and Leanne decide to move out of the street for a fresh start somewhere else and get a council house around the Norwich area. He gives Rodger a quick hug and gets into the taxi at midnight and his family leaves the street.

At Age 42 John made a brief appearance on Rodgers funeral and he shortly discussed about how he was the Co-Director in a building company down in Norwich and his financial worries are gone. Harry apologises about the past and John forgives him and shakes his hand

At Age 47 It was announced that John had expanded his construction business and started a chain right next to Richard Street and he rents out 19 Richard Street again but does not move on. Residents are angry as its taking up land with greed

At Age 49 John made a brief appearance again during the controversial pub extension that made the pub more modern and residents found it too night clubby. During this Harry and John have their first argument in years about it when Harry calls him tory and pushes John into the puddle. Later due to insufficient funds from the owners of Richard Street Pub the whole thing was cancelled and John returned to Norwich

At Age 53 John comes back to the street after he reveals his wife Leanne ran off to Italy with a man named Leslie Cavan and his son wanted to run the branch up in Richard Street and John decided its for the best if they both go up again. The street seems pretty neutral or slightly happy to see him as most don't remember much of him

At Age 54 John starts dating Becca Green who is the ex-wife of Harry which fuels their rivalry back up a bit

At Age 55 John is diagnosed with Epilepsy after one night in the Richard Street Pub on the fruit machine he suddenly had a fit on the floor as owner of the pub Mike Graham immediately jumped to his aid and performed his qualified care on him in the pub before being sent to hospital for some tests revealing he has it.

At Age 56 He finds out Becca Green has been cheating on him with Harry Tatlock and Andy Moore and he flipped out on her and threw her into the street in the pouring rain and when Harry comes in trying to defend her John knocks harry out with a swift punch before going inside to cry. Causing the breakup of their relationship and sympathy for John grows in the street

At Age 57 During October 2016 The Murder Of Georgia Beale occurred after her body was found in the middle of the river in the local woods