Corrie's Harvey Gaskell lines up new victim in Will Mellor return

Coronation Street spoilers follow.

Coronation Street's Harvey Gaskell could be set to claim a new victim, as actor Will Mellor has been spotted filming scenes in which escaped prisoner Harvey clashes with a cyclist.

Drug dealer Harvey was imprisoned back in June after Leanne Battersby (Jane Danson) bravely testified against him, but recent filming photos have shown Harvey making a dramatic bid for freedom after a prison van he is travelling in overturns.

In brand new location shoot photos, Harvey is seen making his way along a riverbank following his escape from the van, with a gun in hand. He then encounters a cyclist in his path, who is seen holding up his arms.

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Further photos show Harvey crouched on the ground, still with his gun clasped in his hand – has he been overpowered or has he just committed another terrible act?

The set photos all feature plenty of rain, with Harvey's dramatic escape set to take place in the midst of a deadly storm which will grip Weatherfield during Super Soap Week later this month.

If other photos from the huge week are anything to go by, Harvey will make it back to the Street and this could mean that Leanne and her son Simon Barlow (Alex Bain) are in serious danger from Harvey, who is out for revenge on them both.

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Corrie producer Iain MacLeod has revealed that it was always the plan to bring Harvey back to the cobbles, saying that Mellor "felt completely box office from the moment we saw him and therefore entirely appropriate for this kind of cinematic week".

He added: "We wanted to do something really filmic with Harvey, where he was at large. Nobody knows what he's capable of, or what he's planning to do. We insert him into this incredibly dramatic backdrop that we've created and the end result is fairly chilling. I'm really looking forward to people's reactions to that when they see what he's got in mind."

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Of course, Harvey's return is far from the only huge plot that will form Corrie's Super Soap Week.

Against the backdrop of Debbie Webster's House of Horrors attraction, a deadly storm hits Weatherfield and the sinkhole in the Platt family's back garden becomes a bigger hazard than anybody could have imagined.

Four characters will become trapped underground in the Victorian sewers as the ground around the sinkhole gives way, while Dev Alahan (Jimmi Harkishin) faces the agonising choice of pulling just one of his children from their burning car after it is hit by Harvey's prison van – leading to a huge fireball.

There are no guarantees that everybody will make it out of the week alive...

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