Coronation Street cast Skins and Scott and Bailey star Liam Boyle as David Platt’s dangerous new cellmate
CORONATION Street have cast Skins star Liam Boyle as David Platt’s sinister new cellmate.
The 34-year-old actor will play dangerous prisoner Abe who tries to talk David into stabbing his rapist Josh Tucker.
The Bolton-born star has already kicked off filming and is over the moon about landing his new Corrie job.
And he’s no stranger to darker roles, having starred alongside Jack O’Connell as evil gangster Louie in Skins spin-off movie Rise.
He also played Suranne Jones’ son Dominic in ITV crime drama Scott & Bailey.
It comes after spoilers revealed David – who’s played by Jack P Shepherd in the ITV soap – retreats to his cell but is stunned when new friend Abe drags a terrified Josh in.
Viewers will be on tenterhooks when Abe hands David a pair of scissors and tells him to do his worst.
Later, as David’s horrified family watch the riot unfold on the news, David tells Abe that he wants to deal with rapist Josh alone.
With help from Abe and Tez, David drags Josh (Ryan Clayton) to the top of a staircase.
David’s fiancée Shona Ramsay (Julia Goulding) is left horrified when he calls her and tells her that Josh has been stabbed and she needs to find him a lawyer.
But viewers will have to wait and see whether David is really the culprit.
Josh caused controversy on the cobbles last year when he drugged and raped David on a lads’ night out.
David fell to pieces after the attack but finally admitted to Shona what had happened after Aidan Connor took his own life.
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