An investigation is set to get underway this week when Rob Donovan (Marc Baylis) is found motionless at the bottom of a flight of stairs in Coronation Street.
Rob was recently visited in prison by son Bobby Crawford (Jack Carroll), who begged the killer to donate his kidney to Carla Connor (Alison King), who was in need of another transplant.
She offered to get his sentence overturned if he agreed to help Carla, and Rob recorded the conversation to ensure that she couldn’t go back on her word.
A plan formed, Mandy tells Carla that Rob’s health has taken a turn for the worse.
It soon became clear that Rob was plotting to escape with girlfriend and prison warden Mandy, and had no intention of donating his kidney.