Maya Roy was a detective in the Greater Manchester Police and the colleague and partner of DCI Sam Tyler in 2006. She was abducted in suspicious circumstances whilst investigating the murder of a young woman, a crime initially thought to have been committed by Colin Raimes. From Sam's perspective at least, his actions in the limbo world of 1973 wherein he and Gene Hunt captured serial killer Edward Kramer, who lived next door to the young Colin Raimes and his grandmother, led to her escaping this fate in 2006, as Sam believed that it was in fact Kramer who had committed the murder in 2006, after he had been released from a mental institution, and not Raimes.