Coronation Street fans are already reeling from an explosion of violence that has seen Mick Michaelis (Joe Layton) violently attacking police officer Craig Tinker (Colson Smith), leaving him in a critical condition. But that isn’t the end of the violence in this storyline, as there are further twists to come.

Mick, who had previously been in a fight with Gary Windass (Mikey North) and left him battered and bruised, went on a violent rampage when he discovered the past history between his wife Lou (Farrel Hegarty) and their old friend Kit Green (Jacob Roberts).

A flashback episode had revealed that, while Mick was in prison for a crime committed along with Kit who escaped punishment, Kit and Lou became close. So close, in fact, that it was recently revealed that Mick and Lou’s son Brody (Ryan Mulvey) is in fact Kit’s son.

Unfortunately, as things started to turn nasty with Mick, Craig happened to be shadowing Kit as part of his CID placement. Wanting to impress the older officer, Craig went to investigate a disturbance and pulled over Mick’s van.

A raging Mick grabbed a baseball bat and furiously attacked Craig, leaving him with horrific injuries.

With Mick still at large, he continues to target Kit, trying to use his girlfriend Sarah (Tina O’Brien) and mum Bernie (Jane Hazlegrove) as bait to lure the police officer to him.

Mick is eventually arrested and he calls Brody from prison, trying to assure him that he’s an innocent victim of a police stitch-up – and by ‘police’ he means Kit.

When Kit tries to convince Brody that his dad is a violent man, Brody is enraged and charges at him, smashing him against a wall.

It’s clear that, even with Mick behind bars, the feud between him and Kit is still ongoing, and this becomes crystal clear later when we see Mick lying on the floor of his cell having suffered a brutal beating.

When Lou visits the prison she’s shocked to see the injuries he’s sustained. Mick tells her he’s convinced that the attack was organised by Kit, and he knows that if he doesn’t plead guilty to the charges, the next beating will be much worse.