Sarah has confessed to murdering Theo, just as her police officer boyfriend Kit popped the question in Coronation Street
Sarah Platt is forced into a confession in Coronation Street(Image: ITV)
Sarah Platt is risking spending the rest of her life behind bars as she confesses to murdering Theo Silverton, just as her police officer boyfriend Kit Green pops the question in Coronation Street.
It’s been a few weeks since Sarah was uncovered as the one responsible for the villain’s demise, which fans of the ITV soap will recall took place back in April, before Theo’s lifeless body was found by a horrified Betsy Swain.
The storyline had already been confirmed in flash-forward scenes aired in the long-running show in February, in which Betsy was being interviewed by police after discovering the dead body of someone she knew on the night of her mum, Lisa Swain’s, wedding to Carla Connor.
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Eventually, a week after the wedding aired, it was revealed that Theo was the victim, which came after he tried to torment Todd one last time.
His death has since triggered a murder investigation, with Corrie confirming Todd as a suspect, along with Summer, Gary Windass, George Shuttleworth, Christina Boyd and Theo’s ex-wife, Danielle Silverton.
While what really happened on that fateful night was revealed to viewers in scenes aired in June, Corrie fans later watched as Sarah confessed the truth to Todd, while Kit remained determined to pin Theo’s murder on his partner’s former flame, Gary, not realising that he is covering for Sarah.
Last week, clocking Gary and his wife, Maria Windass, arguing on the street, Kit tells DS Lisa Connor-Swain he is suspicious of their behaviour, prompting Lisa to remind him he is off the case.
Now, in the new Corrie scenes aired in Monday’s (July 13) episode, which was available on ITVX from 7am before later airing on ITV, an upset Maria confided in Sarah that her marriage is falling apart, which later leaves Sarah telling Gary that she is struggling with her guilt, but Gary begs her to keep quiet, otherwise he could go to prison.
Soon, Sarah arrives home to find Kit has cooked a romantic lunch. Before launching into a typical proposal speech, Kit tells Sarah he feels like he’s the last person to know what’s going on in his partner’s life, and they just need to be honest with one another.
Kit tried to pop the question to Sarah(Image: ITV)
Sarah declared her love for her beau, before he dropped to one knee and pulled out an engagement ring, telling her she’s his “soulmate” and that he wants them to spend the rest of their lives together. However, not able to keep herself together any longer, Sarah admits that she was the one who killed Theo, leaving Kit momentarily stunned.
But does this mean Sarah is heading for prison? Spoilers for this week’s episodes have already told us that later in the week, Kit warns Sarah that her freedom is in Gary’s hands and that she needs to get hold of his phone so they can delete any data that might incriminate her.
With Sarah seemingly doing so when Kit asks, he later secretly calls the guy tasked with wiping the data from Gary’s phone and asks him to forward any information he can find to his personal email address. On the street, DC McLaughlin tells Lisa that they’re ready to arrest Theo’s murderer.
When she was asked how she thinks Sarah would cope if she went to prison, actress Tina O’Brien, who has played Sarah since 1999, admitted: “I would be very worried for her. She might appear to be a ‘soft touch’ to hard criminals, and I worry she’d get into problems in there—especially if they found out she had a partner who was a police officer.”
It comes after she previously said of finding out about Sarah’s killer twist: “There was a lot of debate in the green room as soon as we were told there was going to be a murderer. A lot of people were playing Cluedo. First off, some of the cast were told they were involved in the storyline, but they weren’t the murderer. So by the time it got to me to go for my meeting, I was a bit like, I think it’s me!
“But I genuinely didn’t worry, at the end of the day, this job is incredible, but to be an actor is not necessarily a job for life. So, I just was really excited to be given the honour of being the murderer, and then hopefully, however it plays out, I’ll enjoy Sarah’s arc.”