After police started arriving at the memorial service, the people there started to get annoyed, and minor conflict escalated. When one of the people was apprehended, the rest of them rose into a full riot, growing in numbers and spreading across Holby. The riots resulted in an increased number of casualties admitted to the Emergency Department of Holby General Hospital. Eventually, the superintendent of police, Yvonne Rippon goes to the streets to meet Wesley Royce's girlfriend has agreed to meet her. In the end, his girlfriend never shows up, and Rippon decides to follow a youth who she believes is breaking into a shop. However, the shop owner mistakes her for a rioter, and stabs her and she falls down the stairs. The next year, he admitted to it after she died.