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NAME: DOROTHY BEATRICE BUTTERWORTH

AGE:79

SEX: FEMALE

MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE

Dorothy Beatrice Butterworth once owned her own bakery in a village called Piddleberry, Dorothy and her husband  Gerald baked all their own cakes and pastries and they were run off their feet as the shop was so popular. They were married for twenty five years. One winter's morning Dorothy went to open up the shop and slipped on the concrete steps leading down to the basement of the shop, she cracked open her head, but after a short spell in hospital she was back at the shop helping Gerald.

Gerald was an alcoholic and after Dorothy's fall he began to take to the bottle more as the work load began to increase as Dorothy had slowed down somewhat after the accident. It was rumoured that years later Gerald went to go down into the cellar, lost his step and rolled down to the bottom of the stairs, he broke his neck and died instantly.

The shop was closed down when Dorothy couldn't cope. She moved to Stapleton to move on with her life. Dorothy got involved in the women's institute, baking cakes and making her homemade jams. She also has a little dog and She's very motherly, she likes to feed all the neighbours her famous cup cakes, buns, breads and jams. But there's a dark secret about Dorothy Butterworth and we eventually see that her way of controlling her world around her is totally crazy.