Coronation Street spoilers: Ken Barlow too terrified to return home after realising one of his family tried to kill him
The family patriarch was left fighting for his life after being viciously attacked
KEN Barlow will be left utterly terrified after his murder attempt ordeal in Coronation Street.
The family patriarch - who is played by actor Bill Roache in the ITV soap - was left fighting for his life after being viciously attacked and when he comes to in hospital, he will realise one of his family members could be responsible and be too terrified to return home.
Instead the cobbles stalwart will move in with Roy Cropper as police probe the suspects for the attack - most of whom share Ken's surname and penchant for drama.
But with Ken's memory from the night he was attacked gone, any one of them could be hiding a killer secret and when he summons the police to his bedside he reluctantly admits that anyone of them could be involved to the shocked detectives.
as found unconscious at the bottom of his stairs after after someone tried to murder him on Monday night's episode.
Pat Phelan, who Ken had previously rowed with over his lacklustre work in his kitchen, found him at the bottom of the stairs after entering the house for unknown reasons.
He was found by Ken's son Daniel who came into the house to find the evil builder stood over his unconscious father.
Daniel called the ambulance while Phelan stood by and watched and only checked if Ken was OK when Daniel shouted at him to make himself useful.
Elsewhere Adam Barlow was seen skulking around Weatherfield, when his family thought he was in Canada.
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Likewise Peter was found with a cut hand by Toyah Battersby outside the house.
Tracy had spent the night alone looking for daughter Amy, who had gone missing, but it was Amy who looked the most scared as Ken was loaded into the ambulance.
It has yet to be revealed who attacked Ken, or why, but with so many potential suspects, it could be anyone.
Could granddaughter Amy have attacked her grandfather, or perhaps she saw who did and is terrified of them?
Or maybe a vengeful Sinead Tinker, who had an abortion after Ken said she was ruining Daniel's life, and later had her miscarriage lie exposed took revenge on the elderly man?
- Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights on ITV
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