Home and Away favourite Tane Parata is at risk of facing jail time due to the manipulations of the soap’s newest villain Kerrie Matheson. She’s made

no secret of the fact that she thinks he’s an unfit father, but after her own kids told her to leave Summer Bay, she decided to target him for revenge.

Fans watching Down Under saw her plant a bag of drugs in baby Archie’s cot and call the police, who promptly arrested him during a search.

TV Week reports that this week’s scenes (which will air in a few weeks’ time on Channel 5) will see Tane trying to protest his innocence while being held in a cell. He’s convinced that Kerrie has framed him, and Harper agrees.

One person who doesn’t agree though is Sergeant David Langham, who thinks that Tane is trouble and would rather his daughter Jo stay away from him. He’s not the only one with bias either, as Cash Newman tries to help Tane out in different ways, even posting his bail.

That’s quite an unethical thing to do and a major conflict of interests as a police officer, so David has no choice but to take him off the case.

He tells Tane and Harper that he’s not going to let that stop him and will continue to investigate the case by trying to track down Kerrie. That’s easier said than done, however, as they don’t even know where to start.

It looks like it’s going to be a race against time, as David goes through Tane’s phone and finds apparent ‘evidence’ that proves he’s been scoring drugs from dealers.

Can Tane’s innocence be proven or will Kerrie have successfully ruined his life?