Daniel’s dark side explodes on Coronation Street as he vows to kill

Look out, Coronation Street. The Demon Headmaster is coming out to play.

Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard) is a man at breaking point.He was devastated to discover that his girlfriend Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon) was only ever dating him to hide her predatory grooming of an underage student, Will Driscoll (Lucas Hodgson-Wale).

This was especially embarrassing for Daniel, as he was the o

ne who employed her. Megan was one in a long line of ‘damsels in distress’ which he had chosen to rescue, only for it to all blow up in his faceHis first wife Sinead Tinker (Katie McGlynn) tragically died of cancer, Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan) cheated on him, and his engagement to Bethany Platt (Lucy Fallon) fell apart due to his inability to get over Daisy.

Worse still, the explosive aftermath of Megan’s exposure as a child-abuser is starting to affect the troubled headmaster’s job. When Hope Stape wrote a mocking poem about Megan’s relationship with Daniel at school, he exploded in a rage and tried to snatch the poem out of her hand. This resulted in Hope accusing Mister Osbourne of assault and Mrs Crenshaw suspending him from Weatherfield High.

Ashamed and disgraced, Daniel hid his suspension from his family and lied about ‘planning to visit the Lakes,’ when in fact, he was spiralling in the flat and drowning his sorrows.

Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse for the tortured intellectual, he’s apparently taking in strays.

And not just any strays. We’re talking about bunny-boiling baddie Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown).

After her vengeful plan to punish her sister  Shona (Julia Goulding) by seducing her husband  David (Jack P Shepherd) ended in disaster, Jodie was left without a roof over her head.

So like any completely sane person, she snuck into Daniel’s flat and when he caught her red-handed, threatened to tell his family about his little drunken pity parties unless he basically let her claim squatters’ rights. Still a better love story than Twilight…

But this unlikely pair forge a surprising connection now that Daniel has been targeted by a vicious online troll going by the name ‘Truthteller’.

The vile online posts suggest that Daniel knew all along about Megan grooming Will,and that he was once guilty of grooming Summer Spellman (Harriet Bibby) . Jodie suggested that Megan herself might be the troll.