Sarah Platt has been focused on getting her daughter Bethany back to Weatherfield – but next week, she gets a bombshell from Adam Barlow and Damon Hay is involved.

The Underworld factory employee played by Tina O’Brien embarked on an affair with the criminal when she was still married to Adam and, after a miscarriage, the Coronation Street veteran left her husband to explore her romantic potential with Damon.

Unfortunately for the pair, Damon (portrayed by Ciaran Griffiths) struggled to get away from his life of crime and he eventually wound up in prison, leaving Sarah alone. In more recent scenes of the ITV soap, however, after Bethany Platt (Lucy Fallon) contracted sepsis from a dodgy liposuction in Turkey, Adam (Sam Robertson) has agreed to help Sarah, while bills pile up.

In doing so, Adam found out that Damon heard about Bethany’s ordeal from behind bars and arranged for Sarah to receive some of his dodgy money through a voice message and the solicitor has kept the secret. But he finally speaks out next week, as confirmed by spoilers.

Damon Hay was thrown in prison after being blackmailed into taking part in a robbery by his brother Harvey

Coming up next week, the Platts are first baffled by Jesse Chadwick’s return to the cobbles with Gail, as Helen Worth’s exit storyline looms on the horizon. And when Adam discusses Damon’s hidden money with his uncle Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard), Jesse makes a huge faux pas by stating he recognises him from Sarah’s wedding pictures.

Later on in the week, Adam opts to do the right thing by confessing to Sarah that Damon offered to pay Bethany’s staggering medical bills, as viewers recently discovered that the Turkish hospital Bethany was staying at during her recovery was charging them £2k a day.

After lifting the lid on Damon’s plans, Adam confesses that he deleted the message from her phone, leaving her with a decision to make. In other scenes, Sarah calls Damon in prison – but will she really accept his help after insisting she wanted no involvement with his life of crime, particularly for the safety of her family?

Regular viewers of the Manchester-based programme will remember that Damon was last seen been thrown behind bars after being blackmailed into taking part in a botched robbery by his villainous brother Harvey (Will Mellor). But will he return to Weatherfield?

While this remains to be seen, Daniel Osbourne recently launched a crowdfunding appeal to help pay off Bethany’s whopping fees but on Monday, September 30, news that she’d been hospitalised after a dodgy liposuction filtered through the cobbles, leaving some residents angry, particularly after Paul Foreman’s death from motor neurone disease. Could Damon be the answer to Sarah’s problems?