Coronation Street fans horrified by shock knife attack scenes as bullying plot takes sinister turn

CORONATION Street fans are horrified after Liam Connor was threatened with a knife by bully Mason.

The youngster is being terrorised by school thug Mason but tonight his ordeal took a twisted turn as Mason pulled a dangerous looking knife on him.

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Liam was terrified and fled while Mason pranced around showing off.

Even after the knife incident and being covered in rubbish, Liam was terrorised by Mason and his gang.

Sitting alone in his bedroom, the teenager sobbed as he was bombarded with abusive messages.

Fans are completely horrified by the scenes.

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One wrote: "Liam being bullied is too much why they putting that poor boy thro this he's too cute like just get Garry to sort that mason out PROPERLY."

A second said: "The soaps don’t need people like Mason on them!"

Another added: "Powerful bullying storyline on Coronation Street. Hard enough as an adult - can’t imagine how hard it is for kids. No escape from mobile phones. Bullies really are the lowest of the low."

Meanwhile Corrie boss Iain Macleod recently explained all about the harrowing storyline.

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Reflecting on the horrors of cyber bullying, he shared: ";What we wanted to do was a modern take on that. 

“When I was growing up, bullying took place in the school playground, in the school corridors, and you could at least escape that when you went home.

";Of course, now it follows you into your home, into your bedroom, wherever you go, in the form of online abuse. So we wanted to tell an updated bullying story."

Iain added: "We wanted to make it as far reaching and widely impactful as we could, so it's as much about Gary and Maria and Sean and Eileen and George as kind of Dylan's de facto grandparents as it is about the kids. 

"We wanted it to be a big family story rather than a kind of teenage telling of the story. And it's absolutely heartbreaking. I've just read some scenes now, which are much deeper into the story, so I think it’ll TXing next February or March.

"It's entirely heartbreaking in terms of the reaction of the children that are on the receiving end of the bullying and the feelings of impotence that the parents feel because they know pretty damn well what's going on, but they can't penetrate this kind of wall of secrecy that surrounds it because the victims don't want to speak up for fear of making it worse. 

"It drives particularly Gary and Maria's characters into quite extreme territory in terms of their emotional reaction to what they believe is happening."

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