Next week on Home and Away in the UK, Cohen and Roo’s lives are turned upside down when a man claiming to be Cohen’s father turns up in Summer Bay.

Roo (Georgie Parker) is currently in the process of adopting Cohen (Nathan Murray), who she took in as an emergency foster placement following his mother Samantha’s (Heidi May) arrest back in July.

When Samantha subsequently relinquished all parental rights to Cohen, and with no father named on his birth certificate, the search was on to find any other family members who could perhaps take the boy in.

Local sarge David’s (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) initial search for Cohen’s maternal grandmother, who Cohen vaguely remembered as living in Canberra, proved fruitless.

It wasn’t until Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) gained Cohen’s trust, and learnt some further details, that he finally managed to track her down to Queanbeyan, just across the border from Canberra in New South Wales. Sadly, they then learnt that Cohen’s grandmother had passed away only months beforehand.

With no other family members known, and with Samantha returning Cohen’s letters unopened, Roo was eventually forced to tell Cohen the truth about his mother giving him up.

Hoping to give the lad some stability as she grew ever closer to him, Roo announced to Alf (Ray Meagher) that she wished to adopt Cohen. Roo tentatively approached the idea with Cohen, who was initially conflicted over the idea that Samantha would no longer be his mother.

After some time to think during a fishing trip with Alf, and assurances from Roo that she would never replace his actual mother, Cohen agreed that he’d like to be a member of the Stewart family permanently.

However, as this week comes to a close, Roo is confused to receive word from the department that her application to adopt Cohen had been paused. As she struggles to get hold of someone to talk to, Roo calls David on the off-chance that he knows anything. She’s stunned when David reveals that they may have found Cohen’s father.

Next week, David explains to social worker Harper (Jessica Redmayne) that whilst he was going through Samantha’s criminal record, he found mention of a guy who had posted bail for her when she was pregnant with Cohen. Both agree that the man in question could be a likely candidate for being Cohen’s father.