CORONATION Street fans Yasmeen Nazir will change her plea to "guilty" after she begged her granddaughter Alya to apologise to abusive husband Geoff Metcalfe tonight.
The chef - who is played by actress Shelley King in the ITV soap - is being held in prison awaiting trial for attempted murder after she stabbed Geoff in self-defence when he threatened to kill her.
She had suffered months upon months of coercive control and abuse culminating in being starved, humiliated and emotionally battered in the days before the attack.
Tonight it seemed like Yasmeen had finally snapped free of Geoff's control when she plead not guilty to the crime in court. Her friends and family were overjoyed but it was short-lived.
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