Coronation Street Spoiler: Fake Death, Crime, and Dark Secrets: Costello — Cop or Traitor?

But the drama doesn’t just come from Becky. On the other side of the game, DI Jerome Costello isn’t all that innocent either.

He was rumored to be involved in Becky’s fake death — someone was hired to pretend to be the dead man, and Costello filed a false report to cover it up.

According to the storyline, before Becky resurfaced, Costello used a woman to pretend to be someone else — to make the whole street believe that Becky was really dead.

That fake dead person was Costello’s victim, or at least part of a conspiracy to frame her.

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At that point, Lisa and everyone around her believed Becky was dead — in pain, in grief — but no one suspected: that death was just the beginning of a much darker truth.

With Becky’s sudden return, the whole lie was torn apart like a curtain. False records, false confessions, buried secrets—all of it threatens to collapse. Costello isn’t just the one being threatened—he’s the one seeing his career, his reputation, and his family at risk.

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This time, Becky isn’t just fighting for love—she’s fighting for justice, for the truth. She appears not with remorse in her eyes—but with the determination to expose everything. And Costello knows: if everything is exposed, he won’t just lose his job—he could lose his freedom, his reputation, and his life.