Trevor Jordache is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, played by Bryan Murray.
The character only appeared briefly in twelve episodes, but was a featured in one of Brookside's most controversial plots, the "body under the patio" storyline.
[1] Murray was offered the role of Trevor, a man who initially appears "perfectly innocent" but is secretly abusing his family.
"[3] He added that characters like Trevor make viewers feel emotions unlike others, which caused their threatening behaviour.
In 1993 Mandy, Beth and Rachel Jordache (Tiffany Chapman) arrived on Brookside Close in a "safehouse", as Trevor was due to be released from prison.
Upon seeing the squalor he had to live in and finding he had been burgled, Mandy naively allowed Trevor to stay at her house, much to the delight of Rachel and the disgust of Beth.
During his stay at the Jordache house, Trevor bullied and beat his wife Mandy, but was more cautious around Beth who showed open contempt for him.
Most of the neighbours gave false excuses, except for David (John Burgess) and Jean Crosbie (Marcia Ashton), who turned up out of sympathy for Mandy.
When this failed, Beth started buying large amounts of pain-killers from Ron Dixon's (Vince Earl) shop and putting them into his food.
Two years later however, an underground leak forced the area to be dug up and Trevor's body was found by Eddie Banks (Paul Broughton) and Jimmy Corkhill (Dean Sullivan).
[4] A RTÉ reporter similarly called him a "legendary Channel 4 soap villain" who "lay rotting under the patio for two dramatic years.