Coronation Street has teased a huge new death storyline, set to begin this spring in a special flashforward episode. The scenes will open

with one Weatherfield resident being questioned by police after discovering a dead body, before revealing five characters who could potentially be the victim.

 

 

Producer Kate Brooks has strongly hinted that it will be a villain who meets their maker, revealing that the character in question has “created a lot of waves in the street” by the time they’re killed. Viewers, however, will be kept guessing throughout spring as the mystery unfolds.

But with suspicion falling in multiple directions, the big question is: which Corrie character will lose their life? Here are our current suspects…

Top of our list – it’s the callous Carl Webster. Carl’s enemies on the cobbles are stacking up thanks to his affair with Abi and his cruel treatment of Debbie, who is living with dementia. He was also responsible for Tyrone’s devastating injuries last year.

More recently (and perhaps more crucially), he was among those to blame for the multi-vehicle pile-up in the Corriedale special that claimed the life of Billy Mayhew, although he’s now letting Debbie take the blame.

As he continues to hide his guilt over this, the scheming Carl now knows Theo’s own dark secret over the tragedy too. When Theo discovered what Carl knew, he turned the tables and threatened him if he were ever to reveal the truth.

So if the mystery does hinge on a character who has been upsetting everyone on the cobbles, it’s not surprising that Carl is right up there as the most likely candidate, if a little obvious.

Of course, Carl isn’t the only Weatherfield villain who we are keeping a close eye on.

Viewers have been watching in horror as Theo has spent the past few months emotionally and physically abusing his fiancé Todd Grimshaw. The scheming scaffolder then left poor Billy to die in the Corriedale crash, wanting to silence him forever after the vicar discovered the truth about Todd’s ordeal.

While show bosses have recently promised that there is hope for Todd in future episodes, as other characters will soon start to realise that something is wrong, Theo is still firmly in the running for getting his deathly comeuppance.

The manipulative Megan Walsh is another possible contender, with her dark storyline one to watch over the coming months.

Athletics coach Megan is currently grooming schoolboy Will Driscoll and has recently discovered that she is pregnant with his baby.

Megan has also recently begun a cruel scheme against Sam Blakeman, after he discovered her inappropriate relationship with Will, and she is still dating an oblivious Daniel Osbourne as well.

With Megan’s lies mounting, and bosses promising that the flashforward story will have “many twists and so many turns”, this one certainly seems to fit the bill. But fans will have to keep watching to see if she ends up being the murder victim or not.

Before Maggie joined the show, Corrie bosses promised us that she’d be ruffling a few feathers, and the Driscoll matriarch has certainly done that. But could she eventually end up crossing one person too many?

Maggie has sparked row after row since moving into The Rovers with her family last year, and has also caused quite a stir amongst fans.

Although Maggie recently promised to stop causing quite so much trouble after learning that her son Ben had heart problems, which could have been sparked by stress, she struggled to stick to her word and is currently still holding grudges with both Eva and Leanne.

Maggie is clearly a ticking timebomb and all eyes will now be on her over the next few months.

Swarla fans might be hoping we’ve seen the last of the scheming Becky Swain, but could a twist in the tale mean that she meets an even more definitive end?

Becky got her comeuppance when she was sentenced to 12 years in prison for her crimes earlier this month.

Amy Cudden, who played Becky, later confirmed on social media that her recent prison-based scenes were her exit from the soap.

But what if they weren’t? It isn’t completely beyond the realms of possibility that Becky could ultimately end up escaping from prison, and that Amy’s post was all a red herring. It’s something to consider anyway…

Trouble is never too far away from corrupt copper Kit Green, and it’s for that reason that he’s made his way onto this list.

Fans saw Kit finally come good in the Corriedale special, when he rescued Carla Connor from the shipping container that her nemesis Becky had her locked up in. He further secured himself in Carla and Lisa’s good books by helping to bring down Becky once and for all.

However, there’s still a chance that Kit could end up getting too close to the truth about one of the many cobbles secrets, leading to an untimely end. And we also aren’t convinced he’s completely changed his ways – and neither is Jacob Roberts, who plays him.

“I feel like he’ll always be dodgy!” Jacob said to us. “And I think they should always keep him dodgy.

“But I don’t think he’s turned over a new leaf. I think he could stab Lisa in the back straight away – if he wanted to and if it helped him. I think Kit’s a selfish character, so yeah, 100% he’d do it!”