ITV Coronation Street ‘work out’ who has really hurt Lauren – and it’s not Roy

Coronation Street’s latest episode teased Lauren Bolton had been murdered, weeks on from her going missing on the ITV soap.

Now, fans think they have worked out the truth behind the bloodstains found in her flat, and what’s really happened to her. Viewers speculated over her whereabouts and who might be behind it, after Roy Cropper fell under suspicion on Monday night.

The café owner’s generosity with Lauren in giving her money and a job raised eyebrows with detectives, and then the fact he’d been cleaning her flat days ago left them wondering if he was up to something. Roy was mortified over the interrogation he faced, while detectives were no closer to finding out where Lauren was.

Sean Tully had looked around the flat to possibly rent it, only to find blood on the curtains. When Bobby Crawford found this out he headed straight to the police station, and officers began work on searching the flat.

A whole team of investigators entered the flat and did a thorough search after the tip-off, with them finding money stashed under a mattress. But the more worrying discovery came when they checked the curtains for blood stains, and found a lot of it all over them.

As DS Swain and fellow officer Craig Tinker reeled from their find, it seemed they were keen to explore the possibility of Lauren having been harmed or killed. Spoilers for later this week reveal they do believe she has been murdered, and Roy is soon arrested for the crime.

Viewers watching the episode on Monday night were sure they’d worked out the truth about what had happened to Lauren though. Taking to X, fans speculated that perhaps she was attacked or kidnapped, or maybe there’s another explanation for the blood.

Others questioned who may have hurt or even killed her, with them convinced it was someone other than Roy. Bobby, who seemed very concerned for Lauren, was the main suspect according to viewers.

Given his father Rob Donovan’s killer past, viewers think Bobby might know more about Lauren’s vanishing act with one writing: “bobby definitely knows what’s happened to lauren and him pushing to ‘find out’ what happened to her is a cover-up.” Another said: “Creepy Bobby’s concerned about Lauren act is just a front,” as a third commented: “Why is Bobby Behaving like he was Married to Lauren.”