Coronation Street legend Roy Cropper is brutally attacked next week (Image: ITV) Roy Cropper is brutally attcked in Coronation Street scenes set to air next week. The Weatherfield legend has been on our screens since 1995 and over the past 29 years he's been part of some of the ITV soap's most gripping storylines. Recently, the fan favourite spent weeks in jail after being wrongly accused of murdering his former employee Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) who went missing back in February and hasn't been seen since.

Next week, Roy heads out of the cafe to take some homemade soup to Shona Platt (Julia Goulding) and gets confronted by a gang of yobs calling him names and he stumbles to the floor. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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