Warren Coates was the young, well-spoken and self-assured Tenant’s Executive at Newton & Ridley when Annie Walker was hospitalised soon after the Rovers was broken into by Neil Foxall and Les Grimes. Upon hearing the news that Annie was ill but still not knowing about the break-in, Warren visited the pub to see Billy Walker and enquire after his mother but Betty Turpin let slip that he no longer lived there. This was news to the brewery as Annie had realised that they wouldn’t be happy about her living there alone and she hadn’t told them of his departure six months previously. Soon afterwards, Warren popped into The Kabin and there heard from Hilda Ogden about the burglary (much to the annoyance of Rita Littlewood who knew what the news would mean to Annie) and he made up his mind that th