Coronation Street stars join forces with Women’s Aid to offer help for sufferers of domestic abuse during coronavirus lockdown
The cast of Coronation Street have joined forces with Women’s Aid to offer help and advice for those suffering from domestic abuse during the coronavirus lockdown.
Stars including Sair Khan, Shelley King and Sally Dyvenor feature in a video offering ways sufferers could get in touch with the charity for help if they were being abused.
It comes as the country brings an end to its third week in lockdown, as the government tries to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Important: The cast of Coronation Street (Sair Khan pictured) have joined forces with Women’s Aid to offer help to those suffering from domestic abuse during the coronavirus lockdown
In the video, some of Corrie’s most beloved female stars take turns offering advice to viewers who believe they are being abused.
Sair Khan – who plays Alya Nazir – begins the video saying: ‘The world is going through a really difficult time right now, and many of us are isolating at home.
Sally Carman (Abi Franklin) continues: ‘For anyone who’s experiencing domestic abuse it is no doubt terrifying to be isolated with an abuser.’
Issues: Shelley King joins the cast in a video offering ways sufferers could get in touch with the charity for help if they were being abused
Shelley King (Yameen Nazir) adds: ‘If you are in a situation where you are being abused or you fear that you may be abused there are measures in place that can help protect you.’
The video also features Julie Hesmondhalgh, who played Hayley Cropper on the soap from 1998 to 2014.
She advises viewers to keep a mobile phone with them at all times so they can call for help and to dial if it’s an emergency.
There is help: Sally Carman helps to explain that there is help for people who are suffering from domestic abuse during the COVID-19 lockdown
Sally Dynvenor (Sally Metcalfe) then explains the silent solution, which allows sufferers to be put directly through to police, by dialling 999 then pressing 55.
The video then explains that Women’s Aid offer online chat or email services to help women or children affected by domestic abuse.
Closing the video, Sally then says: ‘There is help our there and you don’t have to do this on your own.’
Appearing: The video even features an appearance from Julie Hesmondhalgh, who played Hayley Cropper on the soap from 1998 to 2014
Coronation Street has been depicting coercive control through Yasmeen and her husband Geoff, who has been gradually cutting off her contact with loved ones.
In recent episodes Yasmeen has discovered Geoff’s sinister past by using Clare’s Law to access police information.
The law was introduced under the name of Clare Wood, who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2009.
Coronation Streets airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:30pm on ITV.
Help is out there! Sally Dyvenor joins the video advising that if a viewer is in danger they can contact the police or Women’s Aid