Coronation Street’s Sinead Tinker will be forced to forgive cheating husband Daniel as she dies

CORONATION Street will devote three whole episodes to Sinead Tinker’s heartbreaking death – after she discovers husband Daniel cheated on her.

The factory machinist – who is played by actress Katie McGlynn in the ITV soap – will be seen in harrowing scenes as she chooses to die at home when she succumbs to cancer.

Airing on October 24 and 25, the episodes, totalling 90 minutes will see Sinead as she says goodbye to her loved ones from her death bed.

Weakened by the cancer, Sinead will be unable to get out of bed in gut-wrenching scenes as she lays dying with husband Daniel.

She will be forced to forgive him for his kiss with Bethany Platt after he goes off the rails with guilt and drinks himself unconscious beside the canal.

But filming the scenes inside the one set took two weeks and took an emotional toll on the actors.

Actor Rob Mallard said: “We spent two weeks in that little set and it eventually became such an emotional attachment to that little room so when we were in there after leaving we were immediately back at that place.

“It wasn’t difficult to get into, if anything it was difficult to not just crack. It felt very real so going in and trying to play against that was hard. It wasn’t hard to cry at all, it was hard trying to stop myself from crying.”

And despite Sinead begging Daniel to forgive himself for the sake of Bertie, grief will see him self-destruct.

Rob added: “You’ll see him self destruct first. It’s the snap of the elastic, isn’t it? You can’t expect anyone to have it together straight away.

“She’s told him all these things about how he has to forgive himself but it’s all caught up in the death and he has to unpick all that and take all the meaning and the messages from that.

“The trauma and shock of it, I think we’ll get away from that as quickly as possible.”

He added: “Before Sinead he was completely alone. He’ll try and be stoic and do everything for the baby but you can’t suppress the worst part of your nature so all the bitchiness and the moaning that he doesn’t want to do with the kid will now go into the other characters.

“He can’t get angry with the baby so all these others will get his bad moods.”

And soap boss Iain McLeod teases the fallout from Sinead’s death would see a clash between the Barlows and the Tinkers.

He said: “The aftermath of this story is that it becomes a very family-based story that draws the Tinkers and the Barlows into conflict and then into an uneasy and unlikely alliance.

“And seeing all the Barlows worry about Daniel and not know how best to proceed just feels very very real I think and richly layered. It’s very interesting stuff. I love that Ken becomes a sort of wise old head when at times he’s been guilty of some wildly inappropriate behaviour and made mistakes himself as a character.

“But the fact that he’s now assuming this sort of Godfather like figure of the family is really interesting to me as well.”