For the latest Coronation Street news and spoilers - sign up here Coronation Street will tackle the issue of hate crime when couple Nina Lucas and Seb Franklin are brutally attacked.
The soap is working with The Sophie Lancaster Foundation, launched in memory of goth Sophie Lancaster who was murdered in a park for the way she looked, on the harrowing storyline to explore social intolerance and prejudice.
In scenes which will air next month, Seb and Nina will be violently assaulted similar to what happened to Sophie in 2007 when she and her boyfriend Robert Maltby were set upon.
As a consequence of the attack in Stubbylee Park, Bacup 20-year-old Sophie died from her injuries. Sophie’s mum Sylvia set up the Sophie Lancaster Foundation in her
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