An intriguing new storyline is about to begin in Coronation Street. It involves a murder, and it’s not going to unfold in the way you think.

It begins next Monday, and features a jittery Betsy Swain (Sydney Martin) sat in a police interview room.

She’s dressed to impress, but the horror on her face suggests whatever event she attended has concluded in disaster. It then transpires that Betsy is being quizzed by the police about finding a dead body.

As the detective restarts the tape, another twist is delivered, as we discover we’re watching an interview take place on a date – in April!

The episode will alternate between real time and the day of the murder, and ends with the reveal of five potential victims.

‘We’ll reveal the five potential victims in that episode,’ Kate Brooks, producer of Corrie, previously revealed. ‘So we’ll know it’s been narrowed down to five.

‘What we don’t know is who it is, because a lot of those potential victims have created a lot of waves in the street. It’s a who-they-dunnit-to, which will probably lead to a whodunnit.’

Kate also gave a hint as to who the potential victims might be, as she explained that the flashforward will be a ‘destination point’ for some of the biggest storylines on the show right now.

‘The big stories we have on the table, it gives us a destination for those big stories to all come together and be involved in a much bigger storyline…

‘It’s very complicated and very intricate but essentially what we’re playing is a “who is it?” story where we don’t know who died and what the situation is around the death, but it will give the stories that are currently running a destination point as we try to figure out which person has met an untimely demise.’