One of the teens will be elft fighting for life in the ITV soap following a shocking attack
Coronation Street has confirmed that a horror stabbing will take place this January which will leave a teen fighting for his life and ‘big consequences’ for the residents of Weatherfield.
As viewers of the ITV soap know, Mason Radcliffe has been trying to turn things around after he was eventually served justice for his cruel bullying campaign against Liam Connor earlier this year.
But his attempts to make a new life for himself haven’t been successful due to his troublesome brothers Matty and Logan. They’ve been causing unwanted choas on the street and with DS Lisa Swain certain they’re behind the death of her partner, Becky, Mason agrees to help.
At the start of the new year, Lisa arrives home to find teenage daughter Betsy ordering Mason to leave their flat after spending a cosy afternoon together. But Lisa catches up with him and shows him some photos taken at the crime scene of Becky’s death and reveals that his brothers were driving the car that mowed Becky down.
Mason is genuinely shocked and asks Dylan to keep a lookout for him while he searches Matty and Logan’s flat. He and Dylan arrive at the station and hand Lisa a WWII helmet that he found at the flat.
The following week, Corrie fans will see Mason making plans to leave Weatherfield to escape his brothers, Matty and Logan. When Abi Webster catches Mason in her son Seb Franklin’s memorial garden stealing some heather for Betsy, she tears a strip off him and sends him packing.
Later, Betsy is scathing when Mason says he had nothing to do with the death of Lisa Swain’s late partner, Becky, and after she and her husband, Tim Metcalfe, tried to take Mason under their wing, Sally Metcalfe tries to get through to Betsy about how hard it was for him to call the police on his own family.
Meanwhile, Mason apologises to Liam Connor for the bullying before heading back to the precinct with Dylan Wilson. After being quizzed by DC Kit Green about the WWII Helmet, Matty and Logan come looking for their brother. Finding Dylan and Mason, the brothers give chase and catch Mason before viciously attacking him.
As Dylan makes his escape, he screams at them to stop, but to no avail. Abi then finds Mason bleeding from a stab wound in the children’s play area. She pulls off her scarf and does her best to stem the flow of blood whilst shouting for help. The ambulance arrives and Dylan explains to Asha Alhan how Mason has been stabbed by his brothers, Matty and Logan, using a zombie knife.
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Corrie producer Kate Brooks also shed light on Corrie tackling the issue of knife crime. She told us: “Just when you think it is safe to relax, we start the year with a big knife crime story. It’s a really important story to tackle, because the statistics are so alarming. I think knife crime has gone up by 80% in the last ten years.
“We worked really closely with the Ben Kinsella Foundation to make sure we’re telling the story right, and that the message is to not carry a knife out of fear, because that escalates everything. We know we’re tackling a sensitive storyline, and it’s going to be very hard-hitting.
“We have Mason at the centre of it and Dylan and Betsy are involved. It has massive ramifications for Abi, and for Tim and Sally going forward. We just felt like it was a subject that we couldn’t ignore. It has big consequences for people going forward, and it isn’t a subject matter that we tackle lightly. It’s an important one to talk about and let young people know that carrying a bladed article is not the way.”
She added: “It’s a real community story and a shocking story. I love the shock storytelling tactics. I think they work and they keep people guessing. And it is definitely a shock! We’re telling the story in a very interesting way. It’s not your usual linear storytelling. It’s different and it’s bold, but I think it’s really impactful how we’re telling it.”
