The penny has dropped. The scales have fallen. The rose-tinted glasses are well and truly off. Coronation Street’s Abi Webster (Sally Carman-Duttine) is now fully aware of what kind of man she’s upended her entire life for is, and she’s sickened.

I’d suggest you fetch a brew and a few cussy-creams, because we’re about to head back to the start of the Webster saga that’s all-but annihilated one of Weatherfield’s favourite clans.

Carl Webster’s (Jonathan Howard) arrival coincided with an immediate cross with Abi in the Freshco carpark. The sexual tension crackled immediately, and even after discovering that Carl was the brother of her husband, Kevin (Michael Le Vell), Abi was fighting an internal battle between her desire to remain loyal to Kev and her desire to absolutely devour Carl.

Despite building a solid career working with them, our Kev is no dipstick! Clocking on to the fact that his wife and his brother had raging chemistry, he told Abi he was still suffering from cancer, after actually being told it was in remission.

Of course, this is Soapland, and it had the exact opposite of the desired intention. When Abi found out about Kevin’s lies, she headed straight over to the waiting lips of Carl.

Carl, meanwhile, had an entire aquariums worth of fish to fry, besides seducing his brothers wife. He was in deep debt and had allied with Fiona Morley (Sarah Poyzer), a dodgy car dealer who also dabbled in a spot of grand theft auto.

With Kevin now in the know that Carl had used his garage as a base for stolen cars and a dodgy MOT racket, he disowned his brother. Though Carl was ready to leave, his sister, Debbie Webster (Sue Devaney), who’d recently been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, convinced him to stay.

And stay he did, though it appeared that sleeping with Abi alone wasn’t enough to satisfy his appetite. No, loyalty doesn’t appear anywhere on our Carl’s list of qualities, as he proved when he began bedding James Bailey (Jason Callender).

In perhaps his most vile move yet, Carl, having stolen a car, mowed down poor Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) and left him in the road with life-altering injuries, before torching the evidence and keeping quiet about his involvement.

The fun of his fling with Abi came to an abrupt halt when Kevin discovered the truth. With Abi now his actual girlfriend, Carl discovered that all of the fun lay in the whole ‘forbidden fruit’ thing. Now it was just plain old ‘bidden’, he was bored and, besides, he had a new objective: use Debbie’s dementia to fleece his sister of every penny she has.

Carl must’ve felt on top of the world, besides having to deal with child care for Abi’s young son, Alfie. James remained at his beck and call, he was successfully syphoning cash from Debbie and with Abi by his side, he held a definitive victory over brother-turned-nemesis, Kevin.