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Carmel Smith Tyler 2002
Parents: Grace Smith
Marital Status: Robert Tyler
Siblings: Liz and Susan
Children: Darcy

Sister to Susan Kennedy and Liz Conway, Carmel arrived in Erinsborough to visit her son, Darcy Tyler, and help Susan’s husband, Karl, to find his wife, who was missing, having run away after being diagnosed with retrograde amnesia. As soon as Carmel arrived, she and Karl started arguing, with Karl concerned that she wasn’t taking the issue as seriously as she could. He told her that she was the only person there who had known Susan in 1972 – the year she now believed it to be – and he needed to know of any old schoolfriends or boyfriends that Susan might have gone looking for. After seeing one of Susan’s old photos, Carmel quickly recognised a boy as someone Susan had been particularly close to, but struggled to remember his name, leaving Karl even more frustrated. Later that day, however, neighbour Lyn Scully mentioned the name Craig, saying that Susan had said his name a few times, and Carmel remembered Susan’s ex-boyfriend, Craig Benson.

Meanwhile, as Carmel went into the local Coffee Shop, she got chatting to the waitress, Penny Watts – Darcy’s girlfriend - who admitted that she was extremely nervous about meeting her boyfriend’s mum, with neither realising who the other actually was. That evening, Carmel went to the pub to have dinner with Darcy and his girlfriend, and the two women were embarrassed to admit that they had already met. The evening came to an abrupt end when Carmel left early, admitting that she couldn’t stop worrying about Susan. With Darcy fearing the worst about his mother hating his girlfriend, the two women decided to play a joke on him, and, whenever Darcy was around, they pretended to argue. However, Carmel’s brief visit came to an end, as the Kennedys tracked down Craig and Susan, and told Carmel that there really wasn’t much she could do, and she admitted to her son that she thought Penny was lovely, and warned him not to break her heart.

Biography by Steve

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