Max's prison sentence increased as he gets into a fight in Corrie?

We’re about to see the return of Max Turner (Paddy Bever) to our screens on Coronation Street, but as we pick up his story from where we left him several weeks ago, he’s still in the secure training centre where he was sentenced to a custodial term for his part in the right wing terrorist  activities that rocked Weatherfield.

When we spoke to Paddy Bever recently he told us that we will find Max at ‘perhaps the lowest you’ll have seen him.

He’s hugely vulnerable but also struggling, almost desperate to find some sort of hope.

He wants to find something that’ll make him carry on because I think he’s been completely ostracised by the community and even within prison he’s been bullied.’

Max is being considered for early release, but David (Jack P. Shepherd) warns him not to get his hopes too high.

What David doesn’t know is that Max is really struggling and his state of mind is revealed when he records a video diary entry on Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard)’s phone when Daniel comes into the STC to teach Max’s class.

Back at home Daniel watches the video and realises that Max is having a terrible time and is at the point of absolute despair.

Paddy told us that the ‘dark, bare’ set of the STC helped him to capture how Max is feeling in these scenes.

‘It’s a very dark, bare place. As an actor that makes it feel a lot more real, for me, so I feel a lot more vulnerable in those places which is a brilliant thing,’ he commented.

‘It’s a massive exercise in empathy because this is young people’s lives, a lot of people live that reality in secure training centres now.

Of course Max has done a lot of bad things which have ultimately ended up with him being in there but I think it will make you understand that these places are not a playground as we often hear people say.’

While Daniel tries to come up with a plan to help, he can’t get Max to open up to him directly about his experiences and Max clams up.

Later one of the other lads in the class, Gav, accuses Max of being very pally with Daniel.

Max realises that Daniel’s attention has made him a target as far as the other boys are concerned, so in an effort to gain some kind of respect from them he causes a disruption in the class.

Will his troublesome behaviour mean he’ll no longer be considered for early release? And if so, how will he deal with the news?

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