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| - Chesney Karib is the son of Yvonne and Kash Karib. He was briefly the Young Mayor of Chatsworth, and love interest of Debbie Gallagher, until she decided he was self-interested and using her. However, Chesney was using the campaign funds to help an elderly Pakistani woman to take her British Citizenship Test. In Series 6, Chesney finds out that his mother had faked his father's death and discovers the secret of his father's homosexuality. Kash then attends the shop in order to speak with his son. In a moment of rage, Chesney knocks his father out cold, and seemed to be prepared to bludgeon him with a baseball bat when the fireworks that were stacked up in the shop's stockroom were ignited, due to the spreading flames of Chesney's insufficiently stamped out cigarette. Chesney flees the shop, leaving his unconscious father to die for real from smoke inhalation. Having discovered his parents duplicity, Chesney began to openly defy Yvonne by liberally taking money from the till and drinking in the house. In Series 7, Chesney helps his mother and Stan Waterman cheat Paddy Maguire out of the money they owed him. He continues to work at the Kash and Carry after Joe Pritchard purchases the shop from Yvonne. Things begin to go badly for Chesney when a party thrown at his house takes an abrupt turn when a drunk girl is taken advantage of, and the boy that transpired the events gets battered to death by the girl's older brother. The act was filmed and spread via photographs over a mobile phone. Chesney and best friend, Carl Gallagher were witnesses to the assault. Their consciences soon got the better of them, which led them to graffiti the name of the killer close to the scene of the crime. The murderer, Jimmy, in turn prevented them from going forward to the police by threatening to kill Liam, and tells them to leave Chatsworth. After spending some time at a Welsh farm with a woman called Hazel, who has her own murky past which Chesney helped her resolve, both him and Carl decided to return to Chatsworth to clear their names. When entering a football competition for gay teams Chesney rows with Ian over his relationship with Kash. Towards the end of the penultimate episode, Chesney has a dream including Micky and Ian, and it is assumed that he may actually have homosexual feelings himself. These feelings progress in the eighth series when along with Micky, he starts up a gay sex line and begins to enjoy it far too much. This soon ends however when Micky begins to get jealous of all the customers requesting Chesney, and convinces him that they should stop. In the first half of Series 8 Chesney was spurred on by his then girlfriend Bex, to help a young girl being abused by her father. The couple caught Bean stealing from the Karib's Shop and used her mobile phone to call her father, who turned out to be the shop's new delivery driver, Gorky. Chesney discovered that Gorky was not only beating his child but also pimping her out to pedophiles. Though he hopes that helping Bean will win Bex back after she discovers his involvement with drugs and finishes him, Bex tells him to forget about Bean. Shocked by Bex's lack of interest he tells her he though she was special and decides to help Bean for her own sake. He soon receives a phone call from Bean however and rushes to her flat to discover she has stabbed her father to death. Chesney hands her a large wad of cash and tells her to go find her mother and once she has left, burns the flat to the ground with Gorky's corpse left inside.
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