{"id":313055,"date":"2026-02-27T13:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/313055\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:20:09","slug":"coronation-street-confirms-who-attacked-mal-roper-in-early-itvx-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/313055\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street confirms who attacked Mal Roper in early ITVX episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coronation Street spoilers<\/a> follow from Friday’s episode (27 February)<\/a>, which is available to watch now on ITVX<\/a> and YouTube<\/a> but hasn’t yet aired on ITV1.<\/p>\n

Coronation Street has confirmed who attacked Bernie Winter-Alahan’s stalker Mal Roper<\/a> \u2013 with a shocking confession scene. While Bernie is the first major suspect in the case, it turns out that someone close to her was trying to protect her.<\/p>\n

In Friday’s episode, Bernie faces a difficult interview down at the police station, where she comes under pressure over her history with Mal<\/a> and why she threatened him shortly before the attack.<\/p>\n

Bernie tells DC Browning that she met Mal a few weeks ago<\/a>, when he invited her up to his room at the Chariot Square Hotel. Mal has harassed her ever since, giving her a clear motive for the attack, but she firmly denies using violence to solve the problem.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bernie’s son Kit Green seems troubled as he approaches his partner Sarah Platt to share a secret he’s been keeping\u2026<\/p>\n

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Related: Coronation Street confirms second 2026 death in early ITVX episode<\/a><\/p>\n

Confirming that he was to blame rather than Bernie, guilty Kit explains: “I didn’t kick him or hit him or anything like that. I grabbed him, gave him a shove and warned him off.<\/p>\n

“He’s had a heart attack \u2013 he would have had one anyway. I thought it’d blow over, but Bernie doesn’t have an alibi.”<\/p>\n

When Sarah encourages Kit to tell his police colleagues the truth if the incident really was as minor as he claims, he replies: “I’d end up losing my job. We’ve just got to ride it out.”<\/p>\n

Kit is relieved when Bernie is released without charge, leaving him hopeful that the allegations against her will disappear without him needing to set the record straight.<\/p>\n

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Related: Coronation Street lines up character return for Alya Nazir story<\/a><\/p>\n

However, when Kit’s co-worker Lisa Swain announces that she’s being taken off desk duties following the Becky Swain investigation, he realises he’ll have to tread carefully.<\/p>\n

“Aren’t you the least bit curious to find out who’s attacked the guy who’s been harassing your mum?” Lisa asks, puzzled that Kit isn’t pushing for firm answers in the investigation. <\/p>\n

Vowing to take a personal interest in the mystery, she adds: “I need to get back to doing what I did best \u2013 catching the bad guys\u2026”<\/p>\n

Coronation Street airs on weeknights at 8.30pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more Coronation Street spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

For exclusive soap star interviews, gossip, spoilers and theories every week, don’t miss the Soap Scoop podcast<\/a> from Inside Soap magazine. The latest episode<\/a> delves into next week\u2019s soap spoilers for EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale – featuring Carla and Lisa\u2019s baby shock, Clare Bates\u2019 return and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coronation Street spoilers follow from Friday’s episode (27 February), which is available to watch now on ITVX and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[137241,635,156698,637,146,85,46,636,156697,137240,411],"class_list":["post-313055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-230b31ff-ec7d-4510-9b12-16f96050f8e7","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-corrie-confirms-who-attacked-mal-in-early-itvx-episode","tag-subsection-coronation-street","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}