Amy Barlow (Elle Mulvaney) is set to discover that she has been raped by Aaron Sandford (James Craven) in upcoming Coronation Street scenes, as the ITV soap tackles the issue of non-consensual sex.

Aaron made the decision to have sex with Amy after she fell unconscious in Friday night’s (March 3) episode of Corrie, and she will soon piece together the fragments of her memory and come to the realisation that she couldn’t consent.

As the story progresses, we will see Amy struggle to come to terms with what has happened to her, and try to decide how she wants to move forward.

When family and friends and then the police become involved, we will see the different reactions and understandings of non consensual sexual activity as both teens battle with what happened that night.

It is only a matter of time until Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) and Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson) find out what their daughter has been through, and Elle Mulvaney has revealed that they will be left ‘heartbroken’.

‘Steve and Tracy love Amy, she’s their world’, the actress explained. ‘So they are going to be heartbroken when they find out and that’ll manifest in different ways between them both because they don’t know what to do, it’s out of their hands.

‘All they’re trying to do is get justice for Amy and try and support her in the best way and whether Amy agrees or not whether this is the best way, the Barlows do as Barlows do and that’s sometimes go off the rails when she doesn’t want.’

It isn’t just the Barlows who will be affected by this event, as Amy’s friendship with Summer Spellman (Harriet Bibby) comes into question.

‘I think that’ll probably be one of the most interesting things because from Summer’s perspective Amy’s slept with her boyfriend’, Elle said. ‘Her best friend has slept with her boyfriend. So she’s going to be destroyed.

‘She doesn’t know who to hate more, whether she hates him more or whether she hates Amy more because how has she done that to her?

‘I think it’ll be interesting to see her stance on everything. Do you choose your best friend who you’ve been friends with for years or the boy that you love?’

However, it may be a while until the truth is revealed, as Amy worries that no one will believe her.

‘She has so much going through her head at that time that she can’t even begin to think “how can I tell other people?”.’

‘She’s dealing with so much and she thinks she’s strong and she thinks she can handle this all by herself.

‘Even saying the word rape and saying what’s happened to her is so difficult and takes so much effort and energy from her which in that initial stage she just doesn’t have.

‘She just feels deflated so that, paired with the fact that Aaron’s saying ‘Don’t tell anybody’ and she feels like she’s not being heard by him and he’s batting it off as though it’s nothing does make her go in her head, “how can I even begin to tell anybody this when he doesn’t even believe me – and he’s done it”.’

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