Police involved as Coronation Street’s Tim and Will confide sexual abuse ordeals in early ITVX release

This article contains spoilers for tonight’s (Tuesday, May 12) Coronation Street, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on YouTube and ITVX.

Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon) looks set to finally face her comeuppance in Coronation Street, as tonight’s episode saw Will Driscoll (Lucas Hodgson-Wale) go to the police.

Will had refused to believe that sports coach Megan had been abusing him and had sworn to his family that nothing had happened between them.

In reality, Will and Megan had been in a ‘relationship’ for months, and slept together for the first time on Will’s 16th birthday.

Earlier this year, Megan’s abuse was exposed by Sam Blakeman (Jude Riordan), which came as a huge shock to the Driscoll family.

Though they tried to get to the truth in a bid to see Megan face justice, Will continued to defend her, unable to accept that she’d done anything wrong.

In tonight’s episode, Will got held up in Tim Metcalfe’s (Joe Duttine) cab while on his way to meet Megan.

His family thought he was heading to Scotland to stay with mum Melanie, but in reality, he planned to run away with Megan.

Fortunately, when Susie Price (Aurora Bradshaw) revealed that she had seen Will steal from the Rovers’ safe, Ben Driscoll (Aaron McCusker) and Eva Price (Catherine Tyldesley) worked out his plan and were able to let Tim know before he let Will get out of the car.

Aware of the situation, Tim opened up to Will about his own experience of grooming.

Viewers will recall that Tim was just 14 years old when local shop assistant Trisha Pinkerton (Anita Booth) slept with him. Although Sally Metcalfe (Sally Dynevor) pointed out that Trisha had abused him, Tim didn’t see it that way.

However, having ruminated on Will’s situation, Tim has clearly had second thoughts about his relationship with Trisha.