Corrie star Carla is the prime suspect in Tina murder

Carla’s agony as Peter accuses her of murder.

There’s turmoil aplenty for Coronation Street stunner Alison King’s Carla this week. Ever since he killed Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan), Marc Baylis’s Rob has seen the finger of suspicion pointed elsewhere.

Chris Gascoyne’s troubled Peter is currently languishing, falsely accused, in prison.

He’s not spilling the beans because he’s actually trying to protect Carla whom he thinks did the dirty deed. But when Peter is rushed to hospital after a near-deadly booze binge she is urged to visit to Rob’s understandable panic.

“It really throws her when she hears Peter’s critically ill,” admits sultry Street beauty Alison. “I think she’s been concentrating so much on the factory and putting Peter out of her mind that this news brings her crashing down.

“Carla confides in Rob and tells him she can’t help but be concerned for Peter. It’s almost a knee-jerk reaction when she hears he’s in trouble.”

The last thing Rob’s keen on is a cosy bedside prison heart-to-heart. “He tells her to go away on holiday and says he will mind the factory.

“Carla is tempted but as soon as Ken begs her to visit him she’s swayed the other way. I think Carla knows that emotionally it will be the worst thing for her to go and see him.

“But she also knows she would never forgive herself if anything happened to him and she hadn’t been to visit him.”

When she sees the shocking state of Peter it hits hard but what hits even harder is Peter saying that he knows she killed Tina and is willing to take the rap for it.

“She’s completely taken aback,” admits Alison.

“First and foremost she’s gobsmacked that Peter actually thinks she could have killed Tina.

“When she’s finally able to process what he is saying, she starts to realise that if he genuinely thinks she killed Tina, then he obviously didn’t.

“Peter thinks he’s going to die so Carla sees no reason why he’d start playing mind games with her about the murder. He has nothing to lose because he’s telling her he will take the blame for her.

“It’s actually a moment of clarity for her as she realises that Peter isn’t guilty at all.”

She tells Rob that she’s thinking of going to the police with Peter’s confession.

“He tries to tell her that Peter’s probably had all sorts of medication in hospital, so he won’t have been talking sense,” adds Alison.

“But she questions why Rob can’t understand why she thinks she has to do the right thing.”