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Lee Robert "Stan" Stanley was the best friend of Ollie Benson and the father of Holly Cunningham.
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Stan was the sidekick of Ollie Benson, working as a chef in Riverbank College's cafeteria. After Ollie began a relationship with Mandy Richardson, a lonely Stan blackmailed Ollie to get a date. Mandy ended up setting up Stan with her friend Cindy Cunningham, but things did not work out between them. On Cindy's 16th birthday, she and Stan had a one-night stand. Cindy later discovered that she was pregnant, but kept it secret until eventually telling Stan in October 1997. He offered to support Cindy, but Cindy cruelly rejected him.
Stan ended up getting drunk at The Dog in the Pond and Ollie got in the passenger seat of his car as he attempted to calm him down. Ollie's brother Kurt, as well as Kurt's friends, followed in pursuit in an attempt to stop Stan from driving. However, Stan slammed on the accelerator and sped around a corner, meeting a reversing lorry blocking the road. He swerved, flipping the car; their crash also causing Kurt's car to crash. Stan was killed in the crash, and Ollie later died in hospital.
Two months after Stan's death, Cindy gave birth to his daughter, Holly Cunningham. In May 2014, Holly ran away with her boyfriend Jason Roscoe to Stan's mum Sheila's house, where Sheila gave Holly a watch that belonged to Stan. In April 2024, Cindy opened up to Lizzie Chen-Williams about having Holly at 16 and the ordeal she went through after Stan's death.
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- Stan was axed by series producer Jo Hallows in 1997.
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