Coronation Street star Connor McIntyre says his character Phelan’s ‘really a decent​ murderer’

CORRIE killer Pat Phelan is literally up to his neck in it this week.

Tomorrow’s episode sees the arch-villain arrive at the Mill only to see one of the bodies emerge from the subsiding water as the workmen who have been pumping it out leave.

He pulls them both out but then falls into unset concrete as he tries to dispose of them again.

“We had absolutely the worst weather, only this time we had rain machines as well as the cold and we even had lightning,” said Connor McIntyre, who plays the murderer.

“So to say it is Shakespearean is no exaggeration, this is real jeopardy for him.”

This was obviously a revisit after the body disposal and Connor says there was a different feel this time.

“It was colder because Phelan is very clear what he has to do.

“When he was at the Mill previously, it was a chain of events leading to a double murder.

“This time this is an actual plan to get to this point. A lot more chilling.”

Bizarrely, Connor says he gets a lot of positives from viewers.

“They say they hate Phelan but they don’t want him to go just yet,” he explains.

“They are really enjoying it and that is a credit to the writers, the storyliners and everybody else.

“They have done such a great job of walking this very fine line as he’s a dangerous narcissist and psychopath.

“You make a character like that and still have sympathy from large proportions of the viewing public who believe that, inside, there is a good man fighting to get out because there are moments of real decency.

“He’s got a moral compass at some points but that only exists in its own special place.”

Coronation Street, ITV, Mon, Wed, Fri.