The scales fall from Tim’s eyes in Coronation Street as he demands answers from child sex abuser Trisha

Now that Megan Walsh’s (Beth Nixon) predatory grooming has been exposed, Tim Metcalfe (Joe Duttine) finds the strength to confront his own abuser on Coronation Street. Will he get the answers he needs?

After months of manipulating underage Will Driscoll into an illicit affair, Megan Walsh’s dirty secret is finally out in the open thanks to the detective work of schoolboy sleuth Sam Blakeman (Jude Riordan). The athletics coach and teacher exploited her authority to get close to Will and gaslight him into a twisted ‘relationship’, right under the nose of his loving dad Ben Driscoll (Aaron McCusker).

Playing Parallel to this story is Tim Metcalfe’s surprise reunion with Trisha Pinkerton (Anita Booth), an ‘old girlfriend’ from his school days. While Tim’s wife Sally (Sally Dynevor) was initially seething with jealousy when he snubbed their anniversary to meet Trish for a drink, it turns out that was the least of their problems. To Sally’s horror, Tim revealed that Trisha took his virginity when she was 20 and he was fourteen.

Sally struggled to convince Tim that he experienced abuse (Picture: ITV)

Despite Sally and friend Brian Packham’s (Peter Gunn) best efforts to convince Tim that he was a victim of sexual abuse, Tim defended the encounter as a ‘rite of passage’ that occurred ‘in a different time’ and refused to see anything wrong with it.

That’s all about to change.

With word of Megan’s abuse spreading all over Coronation Street, the scales finally fall from Tim’s eyes in upcoming episodes where he starts to see his relationship with Trisha in a new light.

Megan’s abuse of Will has torn the Driscoll family apart (Picture: ITV)

When the Metcalfes bump into Ben, Sally tells him how sorry she is to hear about Will and explains how Tim was groomed by a woman when he was only fourteen.

Awkward, Tim tries to dismiss Sally’s accusations and does his best to play it down. However, making excuses for an abuser is the last thing Ben wants to hear and he snaps at Tim that he’s deluded. Will this be enough to make Tim see the light?

It seems that Tim’s got the harsh home truth he needed when later, he admits to Sally that Ben gave him cause to question his relationship with Trisha. Therefore, he decides to contact Trisha and get some answers once and for all.

Will Trisha respond? And even if she does, will Tim find what he’s looking for?

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