Save my baby

Joel subjects pregnant Lauren to a terrifying ordeal in a bid to cover up his crimes...

- SARAH WATERFALL

With Lauren Bolton six months pregnant with Joel Deering's child, for once, she has the upper hand with her abuser.

Having kept to her side of their deal and told DS Swain that jailed Nathan Curtis attacked her, the teenager, who's hiding out in Joel's old flat, is expecting the bent solicitor to set her up in Ireland and provide for her and the baby or she'll expose him. After all, the pregnancy is concrete proof that Joel slept with her.

Mysterious parcel