Mr Weir was the stony-faced officer assigned to Les Battersby to ensure that he carried out his sentence of one hundred and fifty hours community service for benefit fraud. Les was horrified to discover that he was assigned to clear up graffiti from his own haunting ground of Coronation Street and Viaduct Street and aggressively demanded to be sent to Inkerman Street instead. An unimpressed Mr Weir told him he was there to be punished and to get on with it.