Viewers of ITV’s Coronation Street think they have worked out who is sending threatening messages to Lauren Bolton after the van crash, amid hints it was Bobby Crawford

Viewers of ITV’s Coronation Street think they have worked out who is sending threatening messages to Lauren Bolton (Image: ITV)

Someone is targeting Lauren Bolton on Coronation Street after her crash lie was rumbled.

The teen was caught up in a van theft last week with fellow youngster Betsy Swain, and the pair were horrified when Lauren crashed the vehicle. Betsy had dragged Lauren into her vendetta against the van’s owner Tracy Barlow, and covered for her.

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With Lauren facing trouble with the law on numerous occasions and fearing she might lose custody of her poorly baby son Frankie, Betsy decided to take full responsibility. She claimed she was the one driving and that no one else was at the scene.

Of course given her arm injury, amid an update on that this week, Betsy’s mother detective Lisa Swain was quick to suggest someone had to have been with her. This was backed by the officer attending the scene who claimed to have seen a young blonde girl with Betsy.

Betsy denied this and claimed she was and drove alone, crashing the car. Lisa was keen to get to the bottom of it, while Betsy met with Lauren to tell her she had kept her name out of it, and that it would stay that way.

Someone is targeting Lauren Bolton on Coronation Street (Image: ITV)

Lauren was grateful, only to be left horrified when she started getting messages from a mystery sender who knew the truth. The person sent her a text message that said they knew she was the one driving the van, not Betsy.

These messages continued this week, with Lauren getting more texts from the person who claimed to know it was her who crashed the van. She confided in her pal and ex lover Bobby Crawford, revealing it was her who crashed the van.

She told him about the messages, unsure who was behind it. The episode dropped a major hint that it was Bobby himself behind the mystery harassment, with him shown on his phone in a random scene.

He’d told Lauren it was likely just someone messing about, and so he told her to “do nothing”, before he suggested the person can’t have proof. He told her if they did, they would have made a blackmail demand while the sender only said “it would cost her”.

Lauren was thoughtful about this but then got sent a picture of her behind the wheel. In this moment Lauren was fearing the worst, while not much later in the episode we saw Bobby in The Bistro and he was on his phone.

Lauren confided in her pal and ex lover Bobby Crawford(Image: ITV)

We didn’t see who he was talking to or why, but it came off the back of his chat with Lauren about the messages. But fans think it’s someone other than Bobby behind it all.

Taking to social media fans guessed it might be Lisa behind the messages, trying to scare her into confessing to stop her daughter Betsy from getting into trouble. One fan posted: “Everyone on Facebook seems to think it Lisa but was Lisa with Carla when this happened?”

Another fan said: “I bet it’s Betsy’s mum,” as a third posted: “I think it was Betsy’s mum.” A further comment read: “Lisa Swain is texting Lauren.” Others suspected it might be Tracy though, or maybe even Betsy herself.