Georgia Taylor has suggested that her character Toyah could be set for a stint behind bars in Coronation Street.
In episodes to be broadcast next week, Toyah faces her day in court accused of deliberately murdering her husband Imran (Charlie de Melo) in a car crash.
Toyah has consistently insisted that she did not try to kill Imran, but in shock scenes she will be seen telling sister Leanne (Jane Danson) and ex Spider (Martin Hancock) that she did indeed mean to murder him.
Speaking to press ahead of the episodes, Taylor admitted: "I've said all along I really want a prison storyline. I just think that it looks like so much fun; and I think it could go one of two ways because Toyah's got this counselling background, she could become someone that the fellow inmates come to and she's very supportive.
"Or she could just be bullied, like massively! I could just see her really getting bullied - she'd need to find some of that Battersby spirit to get through time in prison. If that were to happen, I think the writers could feasibly go either way with it."
As for Toyah's guilt, she continued: "The way I'm trying to understand it is that she had a few seconds where the red mist descended and she completely just lost her mind for a second and I guess in the same way that someone could punch someone in a moment of rage or despair.
"I guess just a slightly more extreme version of just someone driving a car and just going 'I don't care what happens' and then boom, before you know it, they've hit the building.
"I can't say should she go to prison or not because I could give you an argument for both. I'm just hoping that the audience find that challenging and interesting and not frustrating, because I understand sometimes people want things to be quite clear cut and this isn't."
Coronation Street continues Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV.
Neil Wilkes
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