Coronation Street fans spot clue Lauren Bolton's alive amid Joel Deering's next victim 'named'

Coronation Street fans think they have spotted a clue that proves Lauren Bolton is alive as Joel Deering's next victim is 'named'. It has been a couple of weeks now since viewers of the ITV soap discovered it was Joel behind the teen's disappearance - and suspected murder.

Lauren was last seen on the cobbles on February 23 after being sacked from her job at Roy's Rolls by Roy Cropper. The café owner later visited her with her wages and some extra cash to tide her over and his kindness was later taken as evidence that he was to blame for Lauren's death

However, weeks later and after a number of episodes shown the same day from different characters' perspectives, Roy was rightfully released from prison and the truth was finally revealed - but only to those watching at home - as Hope Stape presented him, unknowingly, with Lauren's necklace from his car before a flashback clip, Joel was seen brutally attacking Lauren with a chair leg.

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The residents of Weatherfield are still none the wiser that Joel was Lauren's 'secret boyfriend' who had showered her with expensive gifts but also left her shockingly bruised and is now the reason she has disappeared, with Bethany Platt's former abuser Nathan Curtis now charged with her death.

Joel, meanwhile, has been carrying on as normal, even proposing to Dee-Dee Bailey following a failed first meeting with his parents. But Corrie fans belive Bethany is on to Joel, despite him offering to help her after she discovered someone has been fraudulently using her old company credit card.

It was frenemy Daisy Midgeley who advised her to