Emma Watts (née Taylor) was the police sergeant who helped solve the case when DC Simon Cavanagh was stalking Colette Graham and Curly Watts. Curly took her out for a thank-you drink and then asked her out to dinner and they started a relationship. On 12th October 2000, the police, including her, surrounded the Freshco's supermarket as a siege developed inside. When eventually they burst in, Emma shot the main gunman, Dean Sykes - who died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. Due to her licence to kill, she did not stand trial.