Savannah Caskey (Hannah Tointon) 2005

First Regular Appearance: 8.23 (#347) The Sting  Sunday 27th March 2005

Last Regular Appearance: 8.32 (#356) Play Off  Sunday 29th May 2005

Duration: EP: 347 - 356  |  SE: 8.23 – 8.32

Last Seen: With Ryan and the police after Karl Fletcher’s body is found. Leaves off screen after her father’s death.

Savannah was born in the late 80's to Carl Caskey and his first wife Katie. Her parents were young when they had her, and Savannah spent an early part of her life in Harchester where Carl was in the club's youth team. The family moved with Carl's football career, and Caskey had a long career at Charlton Athletic. Carl and Katie divorced while Savannah was a child, and when Carl married Nicole, a model, in 2001 Savannah saw her as the glamorous big sister she'd never had, and had a great relationship with her stepmum.

Now in high school, Savannah is supportive when her dad suffers a serious knee injury which keeps him from playing for a couple of years. During this time, the family falls into heavy debt, and things look dire when Carl is released from Charlton as they feel they have no further use for him. Now under threat from bailiffs, it's a relief when her dad's old friend Karl Fletcher visits with the opportunity of a trial at Harchester United. While her dad prepares himself for another big challenge, unbeknown to he and Savannah, Nicole is blackmailed into bed by manager Don Barker in order for Carl to play and money to come in. Savannah is tricked into letting the bailiffs into the house and, left with nothing, they move into a club-owned house at The Barrons.

Caskey is not in the mood to listen when he walks in on Nicole in Barker's room, and throws her out. The separation leads to Carl drinking heavily, jeopardising his new place at the club. After Viv Wright makes a disastrous attempt to get Carl and Nicole to talk, Savannah finds her dad passed out drunk, and goes and tells Viv exactly what she thinks of him! Storming out, she bumps into Ryan Naysmith, who gladly offers to spend the day with her. Savannah loses track of time with Ryan and doesn't realise that Carl and Nicole's worry for her whereabouts actually brings them back together. Carl however, is not at all happy about the older Ryan being Savannah's boyfriend, but is eventually talked round by both Nicole and Ryan himself, realising he cannot stop his daughter seeing someone she likes.

When Harchester make the play off final to face West Ham in Cardiff, Savannah travels to support but also so she and Ryan can treat it as a lovers weekend away. When Ryan's secret of his affair with Viv's wife Chelsea is exposed, he flees in Don Barker's pool car, but upon returning with Savannah to play they are both shocked when the police open the boot to find Fletch's dead body. Barker knows he has been caught, and drives his car into the Harchester team coach as they celebrate their win, causing a massive explosion to rip through killing all on board, including Carl. Savannah finds it too painful being near the club, and thus, she and Ryan break up.