4. Saul Bennett - 112 votes
Saul last appeared in 1999 as a ghost. Prior to that he
had been shot dead in 1997 by policewoman Terri Garner. Saul
had appeared several times over the years. He inveigled
Selina into a cult commune when she was at her lowest after
the miscarriage of her baby girl, Maddie. Although not
explicit it was also clear he had sexual designs on Selina,
and it appeared that he had a number of partners by whom he
had children. He was the father of Joey Rainbow, who had
left the commune in pursuit of an education. Saul and Irene
went head to head as Irene supported Joey in his endeavours.
Saul blamed Irene for what he saw as Joey's desertion of the
commune and betrayal of his beliefs. Saul got his revenge
when he kidnapped Irene's newborn baby Paul, the surrogate
baby she had carried for her daughter Finlay. The baby
turned up almost a year later, when the girl to whom Saul
had entrusted the baby, Paul, had a crises of conscience and
left him at the local church. Saul also kidnapped Selina on
the day of her planned wedding to Steven. Even when he
appeared as ghost he was trying to get his revenge on Irene.
Saul was one of those chilling characters who was played in
an understated and spine chilling fashion by David Ritchie
who had the uncanny ability of scaring the heeby jeebies out
of you just by raising an eyebrow or just walking into a
room. He made Mumma Rose look like a tooth fairy.
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