The Bill: Santa's Little Helper

Overview

When several houses are burgled, it appears that a criminal family working out of a grotto are getting people to give their address, so they can be burgled whilst shopping. Santa, Peter Garrett, is prime suspect, and has previous form for burglary, and his daughter Lisa is caught red handed when Turner uses his flat for a sting. Lisa says she did it to pay off some debt her father had with loan shark David Crossley, before he went to prison. Crossley is caught red-handed by Moss and Turner with a fake passport, and agrees to set up 'Robert', who is fleeing the country, to get time off his sentence. Moss tells Turner to pull the op when she identifies the target, drug dealer Robert Towler, who she was undercover with at S010 in 2005.