Who killed Joel? (Picture: REX/Getty/ITV)
It’s official: Coronation Street villain Joel Deering (Calum Lill) has been murdered.
October 14’s instalment of the ITV soap saw Craig Tinker (Colson Smith) break the news to DS Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers) and Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) that Joel’s body had been found, and the post-mortem later revealed that two blows to the head was what finished him off.
With the police having declared this a murder investigation, there is no shortage of characters who may be in the frame – but whodunnit?
As Metro‘s own soap detective, I have put myself into DS Swain’s shoes and gathered all the evidence from the past few weeks to try and get to the bottom of who the culprit is!
So, get your notepads ready, because there is a lot to be getting on with…
Who killed Joel Deering in Coronation Street? Full list of clues and suspects
Lisa Swain
She may be a detective, but DS Swain is at the top of our list (Picture: ITV)
In a shocking turn of events, the suspect with the most evidence stacked against them at this stage of my investigation is the Detective Sergeant herself, Lisa Swain.
Starting from the beginning, Lisa has made it no mystery that she wants to bring Joel down, and has gone to extreme lengths in her attempt to do so.
Through her interactions with Amy Barlow (Elle Mulvaney) last year, we learnt that Lisa has very strong feelings about violence against women – something which Joel is guilty of, in the case of Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) and several other young women.
Despite adoring her job, Lisa put everything on the line this summer as she attempted to collect enough evidence to bring Joel down following the collapse of his case, admitting to Carla Connor (Alison King) that she could face suspension if she was caught.
Lisa has been determined to bring Joel down (Picture: ITV)
She also left professionalism at the door when she was forced to release Joel after his first arrest, when the CPS deemed that there wasn’t enough evidence to charge him. As she told him he was free to go, she made it clear that she wasn’t someone to be messed with.
‘In the meantime, even look at Dee-Dee or Lauren again, and it won’t be prison you’ll need to worry about. And yes, that’s a threat…’ She had told him. With Joel having continued to harass both Dee-Dee Bailey (Channique Sterling-Brown) and Lauren, has Lisa stuck to her word and finished him off?
Things got even more complicated when it transpired that daughter Betsy Swain (Sydney Martin) had also been targeted by Joel – but could this have been enough to push Lisa over the line from seeking justice to seeking revenge?
When it was uncovered that Joel had sent threatening messages to Betsy, Lisa was horrified. With Joel threatening to kill Betsy, could Lisa have killed him in defence of her daughter? …read more
Source:: Metro
