Ex-Corrie actress Susie Blake has spoken about the upsetting way her stepfather spent his final months.
The star, who played popular Bev Unwin in the long-running soap between 2003 and 2015, talked about the difficulty her stepfather Victor Platt had with some ‘cowboy builders’.
She described how two unscrupulous workers targeted the 96-year-old and harassed him about having unnecessary work done on his home, which damaged Victor’s confidence to the point he didn’t want to leave the house.
It’s reported in Daily Mail that two men targeted Victor while he was out walking in London in September 2016.
They told Victor his home had been flooded, found out his address and followed him home, where they attempted to convince him to pay them to carry out “repair” work.
At the time, Victor – who had been an actor before joining the war effort as a rear gunner in World War II – struggled with his hearing and sight.
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