Gladys Mottershead was the buxom landlady of the Deneway Guest House where Colin Fishwick stayed when he came back to Weatherfield from Canada. When Colin died suddenly while arguing with John Stape over the latter’s theft of his identity and John buried his body under the foundations of the rebuilding of Underworld, John’s co-conspirator Charlotte Hoyle worried about Colin’s belongings not being claimed and his disappearance being noticed.