Kate Ford (Tracy Barlow)
Sara Roache, 55, will play the judge at Tracy Barlow's trial later this year, in dramatic scenes which will reveal whether the Street schemer will be sent to prison for killing Charlie Stubbs.
A source told The Sun: "It is a connection nobody expected when they penned the trial script."
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