Darius Donovan

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Darius Donovan is a major antagonist of the school-based drama Waterloo Road, appearing as the main antagonist in Series 16 and is set to repirse the role in Series 17 as well.

He is portrayed by Jon Richardson.

Series 16[]

In Episode 1, Darius states to his form that he is a former royal marine. During the day, Darius leaves the staff toilets taking his phone out of his pocket, in the process dropping a bag of drugs that he had been shown using at the start of the episode. Marc Todd walks past and catches him picking it up, but Darius quickly covers saying that one of the kids must have dropped it. Marc is more inclined to believe it was one of the staff, being right outside the staff toilets, and immediately takes the drugs and tries to see the headteacher, Stella Drake, but she is busy and not in her office. Darius then finds her and tells her that he found Marc with drugs, leaving him suspended pending further investigation.

In Episode 4, Hope Drake is recording a day in the life at Waterloo Road, and she catches Darius and Nicole kissing in the media studies room on camera. She apologises and runs out, and Darius leaps up and chases after her, knocking a plate of cupcakes that had been sorted into dairy and non-dairy off of the table. After trying unsuccessfully to get Hope to delete the video, Darius hastily picks the cupcakes up from the floor and puts them all on the plate under the non-dairy label without paying attention. Later in this episode, Hope sees the plate of cupcakes labelled non-dairy, and takes and eats one of the ones that actually did have dairy in it, to which she is severely allergic, and she suffers a fatal anaphylactic reaction. Darius is responsible for this and tries to cover his tracks.

In Episode 7, Darius tries applying for the deputy head role, and Jack Rimmer later speaks to Stella regarding that he may not be the best choice due to his lack of experience and Stella attempts to offer Jack the role. Darius then puts a bottle of recovering alcoholic Jack's favourite whisky on his office desk.

In Episode 8, Darius tries to get Jack out and eventually gets his own way when Jack punches him at the end of term event. Later into this episode Stella approaches Darius regarding the co-deputy head role and he later becomes the new deputy head.

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