THATCH CLOSE CHARACTER PROFILES 

NAME: CARMEL THORNTON-HEATH
AGE: 37
SEX: FEMALE
MARITAL STATUS: SEPARATED

Carmel Thornton is married to the village chairman Matthew Thornton, who owns the Manor House in Stapleton village. Matthew doesn’t know that Carmel has another side to her. She is a shady character and an evil woman, not only has she been running a massage parlor in the city with underage girls. She also works alongside the country’s top criminals, who are into drugs smuggling and prostitution trading. Once she realizes that Matthew isn’t a well man, Carmel decides to take him for all he is worth.

Carmel moves into Cheryl Hamilton’s old house in Thatch Close after Cheryl’s butler Benson sells it to her. One day whilst speeding along in her Jeep she runs Cheryl over, drives off and leaves Cheryl for dead. What Carmel doesn’t know, is that Cheryl and Matthew have begun to have a romantic love affair together. Although these two extremely determined successful women never initially set out to destroy each other. Carmel and Cheryl’s hatred for each other turns into a roller coaster ride to hell.

Her partner in crime Jansam Fin works for Carmel at the massage parlor. Carmel took Jansam from a slum in Japan when she was young and brought her over to England to use her as a sex slave and a stripper at her seedy night club ‘SYNDROME  X’ as Jansam grew older she was given the position as Madam of the massage parlor but began to resent Carmel for abusing her. Jansam and a few other criminals in Carmel’s gang start to steal her money made from the night club dancers, prostitutes and the massage parlor. Once Carmel realizes she’s been taken for a fool, she begins to realize she has more enemies than she ever realized. 

Once Matthew passes away the grand manor house is handed over to Cheryl from his will and becomes the perfect setting for the action packed showdown which takes place between them. When Maria intervenes and saves Cheryl’s life by pushing Carmel down the huge flight of stairs at the manor house.

When Carmel recovers from a long stint at the hospital, she repays Maria and Cheryl with a visit that each of them will never forget, but as Cheryl fights once again to save her life in a brawl in the manor house kitchen and swimming pool, there’s only one person who can put a dramatic end to Carmel’s evil torture and that is her long lost sister Consuela born out of wedlock and sent away by Carmel’s father. Consuela has hunted Carmel down and has been working as a stripper at her night club. She wants to settle the score about her past and the wealth that she’s been denied.