Neighbours' Leo Tanaka to be caught out in mystery death plot

 A body was found in Lassiters Lake...

Leo Tanaka will be caught out on Neighbours as the soap’s murder-mystery storyline kicks off.

It was announced earlier this month that the Australian soap would celebrate its 40th anniversary with a range of special storylines, with one shocking arc seeing a body found in Lassiters Lake.

Leo is one of the first individuals to come under suspicion for the murder, with next Tuesday’s (March 25) scenes seeing Detective Rafe Fox begin his routine questioning with the businessman.

Leo states that he didn’t see the deceased on the night of their death, though Aaron Brennan isn’t best pleased with his lie. Leo, however, believes the story to be harmless, urging his friend to back him.

Aaron reluctantly agrees, though he is soon regretting his decision after the police find evidence that Aaron had been spotted on a run near the scene of the crime. Feeling backed into a corner, Aaron confesses and says that Leo had pressured him to falsify his story.

Rafe subsequently confronts Leo about his lie regarding his whereabouts on the night of the crime. Is Leo hiding something?

With the soap’s 40th anniversary in full swing, executive producer Jason Herbison recently spoke exclusively  about some of his creative decisions, sharing that he wanted to balance tradition with innovation.

The 30th and 35th anniversaries had a lot of nostalgia, as did the 2022 finale. I know viewers look forward to seeing past characters so I wanted to have an element of that, but I also wanted to look to the future as well,” he explained.

“We landed on a simple theme of 'celebrating big soapie twists and turns' – contemporary stories that have a nod to the past, in the sense that we have done similar things before. Pretty much everything in soap has been done before and the key is always trying to do things in a slightly different way.”

The storyline comes after the soap was cancelled by Amazon following the closure of its Freevee streaming service.