Coronation Road’s James Craven confirms cleaning soap exit after character Aaron Sandford raped Amy Barlow

James Craven has confirmed his exit from Coronation Street following his character Aaron Sandford’s emotional Weatherfield departure. 

The actor character has been on the centre of a harrowing storyline after he raped Amy Barlow (Elle Mulvaney) when she fell asleep alongside him.

Amy was too intoxicated to consent and with Aaron denying the allegations, she determined to share her story on-line, which in turn sparked a legal battle. 

Current scenes noticed Amy write a letter to take again her allegation, after deciding the court docket price’s could be an excessive amount of of a monetary burden. 

Talking after his departure, James defined: ‘Aaron will all the time care about Amy and whether or not he did it or not he was already beginning to really feel liable for placing her via all of this within the first place, as a result of he is the one who took out the court docket case.’

Closing scenes: James Craven has confirmed his exit from Coronation Road following his character Aaron Sandford’s emotional Weatherfield departure

Goodbyes: The actor character has been on the centre of a harrowing storyline after he raped Amy Barlow (Elle Mulvaney) when she fell asleep alongside him

The actor continued: ‘He positively feels prefer it’s all slipped means out of his management. Additionally since his dad has come again into the image he’s felt an incredible quantity of guilt about that too as a result of he is not had cash previously and all of a sudden it was all happening this court docket case that Aaron was beginning to assume he is likely to be preventing a dropping battle with.’ 

Including of Amy’s letter, he defined: ‘Clearly he wished and wanted one thing that was concrete and strong that will show his innocence. 

‘It wasn’t till he went to put in writing it himself that he really struggled to place it into phrases and began to grasp that what he believed was the reality possibly wasn’t the reality. 

Talking of his expertise engaged on Coronation Road, James stated: ‘It’s clearly very unhappy, it has been plenty of enjoyable and I’ve actually, actually beloved my time there. I met so many nice individuals and I’ve made so many good mates for all times. 

‘However I am excited, I am actually, actually excited to get on and go on and do different issues.’

Including of the storyline, he continued: ‘I do really feel very proud, from the start I knew how a lot work I used to be going to place into it and I knew how a lot work everybody at Corrie has put into it. 

‘As quickly as we obtained began I knew it was going to be a extremely optimistic storyline in the long term so it’s one thing that I really feel very happy with. 

‘It’s one thing that I hope the followers have loved and greater than something have began to consider.’

Plot: Amy was too intoxicated to consent and with Aaron denying the allegations, she determined to share her story on-line, which in flip sparked a authorized battle

Within the wake of her rape, Amy (Elle Mulvaney) had been struggling emotionally and mentally since, along with her turmoil even seeing her flip to drink and find yourself in hospital as a consequence. 

She even went on to withdraw her allegation as she thought it will make issues simpler, however she continued to battle as Aaron acted like nothing in any respect occurred. 

Steve and Tracy realised that they’d must promote their companies to fund the massive authorized charges.

In the meantime Eric and Aaron met up with their solicitor who warned them of the dangers of taking the case to Courtroom.