Abi Webster (Sally Carman-Duttine) has been left sickened by football fans calling her son’s killer Corey Brent (Maximus Evans) a ‘hero’.
In tonight’s (20th May) episode, Abi was listening to the radio when she heard a presenter speaking of a new documentary on satellite TV following a prison football team.
It wasn’t long before they began to sing the praises of Corey, the cruel teenager that killed her son Seb (Harry Visinoni) in a vicious attack whilst he was out walking with girlfriend Nina Lucas (Mollie Gallagher).
The radio presenter began to brand him as a ‘hero’ and a ‘rising star’, mentioning how he had managed to turn his life around behind bars.
Abi and husband Kevin (Michael Le Vell) were disgusted to hear Corey being branded as a good person, and she insisted that she watch the programme to see how he had been portrayed on television.
The episode, which was part of a series, featured interviews with his fellow players who showered him a golden glow of appreciation.
At the café, Nina was equally as horrified when she read a tweet from a viewer, who had wrote ‘Give Brent a chance, he’s hot.’
Adamant that neither of them were going to allow the sick murderer to bask in the compliments and appreciation, the two women asked for legal advice from Dee-Dee Bailey (Channique Sterling-Brown) before darting down to the production office and storming through reception.
In the producer’s office, she offered a mediocre apology but said that it was too late to withdraw further episodes from broadcast as they’d already been delivered to the broadcaster.
Back at the garage, PC Craig Tinker (Colson Smith) had received a report from the producer concerning Abi’s behaviour.
Unable to control her emotions, she lashed out at him and taunted him, pleading to be arrested. Kevin luckily managed to calm her down.
Later, Nina invited Weatherfield Gazette journalist Suki Waters (Laura Littlewood) to Roy’s Rolls in the hope that she would be able to put their side of the story across.
Abi was insistent that she didn’t want her son’s story buried deep in the newspaper, and would rather film an unedited video appeal for their website instead.
Cradling a picture of Seb, she opened up about her loss on camera as her neighbours watched on.
Will she be successful in her appeal to have the documentary removed?
