Coronation Street confirms Megan’s fate as star exits for good | Soaps

The following article contains spoilers from the episode of Coronation Street dated July 3. It hasn’t aired on ITV1 yet, but can be viewed on ITVX and YouTube.

Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon) has been sentenced to prison after sexually abusing Will Driscoll (Lucas Hodgson-Wale).

The character was introduced to us last year, when Will arrived in Weatherfield to join his family as the new owners of the Rovers Return pub.

Megan claimed to Eva Price (Catherine Tyldesley) and Ben Driscoll (Aaron McCusker) that she had found Will sleeping in some changing rooms and drove him to the cobbles.

When Megan and Will were alone later that day, we discovered that they were in a secret relationship.

What followed next was a storyline that saw Megan manipulate Will into keeping quiet about what was going on between them. Will spent months believing that Megan wanted to be with him, unaware he was actually being abused.

The first person to discover Megan’s true self was teenager Sam Blakeman (Jude Riordan). He confronted his classmate about Megan grooming him, but Will denied everything and worked hard to defend the teacher.

Sam wasn’t going to just ignore his suspicions though. He knew something was wrong, but found himself being faced with Megan and her evil ways whenever he made it clear that he wasn’t going to keep quiet.

The sports coach completely destroyed Sam’s confidence. Things got so bad for him, Sam actually collapsed and was rushed to hospital.

It was at this point that Sam finally spoke out and told Leanne Battersby (Jane Danson) about Megan. It took a little while for her to get arrested, due to the lack of proof that something inappropriate happened between her and Will.

Things changed after Will learnt that Tim Metcalfe (Joe Duttine) had been through a similar situation to him when he was younger, and the shared experiences helped Will realise that he needed to report Megan.

This week, the Driscoll family have been in court for her trial.

Unsurprisingly, it hasn’t been smooth sailing. Megan’s chances of being released increased a couple of days ago, when Will fell apart and claimed that he had made everything up about them being in a sexual relationship.

Will’s dad Ben also had the potential to negatively impact the end result of the trial. While Megan was being questioned, Ben lost his cool and had to get thrown out because of his anger. This, along with Will stating that he had lied, made it look as though the family had just wasted everyone’s time.

Thankfully, the judge allowed Will to take to the stand again. He was well aware that he had lied under oath, but this time told the truth about Megan, confirming to everyone that he was abused by her.

Those impacted by Megan’s wicked ways were back in court in today’s episode, following the news the jury had reached a verdict.

Megan was found guilty on all of her charges and sentenced to five years in prison, bringing the chapter to a close for everyone involved – at last.

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