Coronation Street fans baffled by ‘missing key scenes’ as Debbie wins appeal

Debbie's now a free woman
Tamzin Meyer

This week in Coronation Street, Debbie Webster returned to the cobbles after her difficult time behinds bars.

She won her appeal, able to come back to the Street after months inside.

But, Debbie’s return scenes have left lots of viewers baffled over how to freedom came to be.

Debbie talking to Carl on the swings in Coronation Street
Debbie’s now a free woman (Credit: ITV)

Debbie’s appeal in Coronation Street

Viewers will know that Debbie Webster ended up in prison at the start of the year. She took the blame for the Corriedale crash that killed Billy Mayhew. Of course, it was actually her son Carl who was behind the wheel at the time, but Debbie wanted to protect him.

With Debbie having a difficult time inside and suffering from another TIA, she prepared herself for her appeal last week. She hoped that her dementia would be taken into account when the court made its decision.

Skip straight to this week, and Debbie was seen talking to Carl Webster on the precinct swings with her family being concerned after she’d gone ‘missing’ following her release from prison.

Debbie was pleased to see Carl happy to see her, but the rest of the Websters soon expressed their concerns when they discovered that Carl wanted £10k from Debbie to pay off Fiona.

Debbie at the hotel with clients in Coronation Street
Fans have been left really confused (Credit: ITV)

Coronation Street fans baffled over ‘missing’ Debbie scenes

With Debbie being in prison one minute, and back on the Street the next, Coronation Street fans have been left checking that they haven’t missed an episode.

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Believing that they missed crucial court scenes, fans were shocked to realise that they hadn’t. The soap just had never filmed them to begin with. No explanation was given into the exact grounds of Debbie’s appeal or how her prison release came to be, with fans believing that this was too important to just skip over.

One person on Reddit wrote: “So she obviously won her appeal. On what grounds? Surely not because of her dementia? And if it is doubts about whether she was driving, why aren’t they after Carl? Really confused.”

Another replied: “Yes I’m confused and when I watched it I thought I had missed an episode,” and a third contributed: “I even went back through the schedule to check.”

A final fan added: “Won on the grounds of convenient for the plot.”

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