George to become Coronation Street’s most unlikely killer as death exit is ‘sealed’

Coronation Street is about to be one villain down, but could loveable undertaker, George Shuttleworth (Tony Maudsley), be the reason?

We know that one of the incredibly bloated baddie list looks set to meet a sticky end, with either paedophile Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon), bunny boiling Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown), sleaze personified Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard), husband killer Maggie Driscoll (Pauline McLynn) or bestial abuser Theo Silverton (James Cartwright) meeting a grisly ending, and all have made enough enemies that would happily see them draw their last breath.

In the case of Theo, one of those people is George, the father figure of his victim, Todd Grimshaw (Gareth Pierce), who’s heart visibly broke when he laid his eyes on a beaten, bloodied and utterly broken Todd in the hospital, following Theo’s final savage attack.

George had known for a while that things weren’t right, with his girlfriend, Christina Boyd (Amy Robbins) having a bad feeling about Theo from the get go.

George united Todd’s loved ones in an effort to free him from the hellish nightmare his existence had become, drafting in Christina, Gary Windass (Mikey North), Sarah Platt (Tina O’Brien) alongside Summer Spellman (Harriet Bibby) who, quite rightly, suspects that Theo was behind the death of her adoptive father, Billy Mayhew (Daniel Brocklebank).

George had previously been witness to one of Theo’s hideous verbal attacks and later put together an ‘escape bag’, packed with everything Todd would need when the time came that he decided to run.

The time did eventually come, days before Theo had planned to take Todd away to Belfast, finally severing the links between him and all those he holds dear.

Unfortunately, though, Theo caught Todd and beat him to within an inch of his life.

Caked in blood and barely able to walk, Sarah and Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) took Todd to the police station, where he finally opened up about what he’d been enduring.

Afterward, though, he finally collapsed and needed to be rushed to hospital, with Theo having inflicted a lacerated spleen on him.

Later in the week, it became clear just how damaged Todd was when he crumbled at the sound of the flat buzzer when George took him to collect his things.

Theo confronts Summer next week and leaves her under no illusion that he was behind Billy’s death, chillingly recounting how he’d begged and pleaded for his life.

Deeply traumatised, she turns to George for support, relaying all of the hideous things Theo said to her.

Still carrying the horrifying image of a shattered Todd in his brain, George seeks out Theo, corners him and tells him exactly what he thinks of him – and what he’ll do if he ever tries to hurt Todd or Summer again, displaying a previously absent dark side.

Has Theo’s evil pushed George far enough that he’d turn to murder?

Does this reveal that Theo will lose his life in the upcoming whodunnit?

And is George whodunnit?

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