If you’re an early 90’s millennial, like me, Richard Hillman ( Brian Capron ) was one of your first bogeymen. Incredibly insidious, deadly, with just a tiny sprinkling of camp delight, his reign of terror over Coronation Street is the stuff of soap legend.

‘You should’ve stayed at the party, Maxine!’ Am I right?

It felt eerily right that he make a comeback in the build up to the departure of undisputed Weatherfield royalty, Helen Worth as his ex-wife, Gail Platt

Appearing as a vision in a nightmare prior to Gail’s wedding to Jesse Chadwick ( John Thomson ), Richard appeared as all seemed lost and Gail’s relationship was crumbling amid the customary Platt trauma, though, according to Brian, he was initially very hesitant to return.

A ‘fatal’ return

When questioned by Th

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