Discovering that John had his missing friend Mackenzie Boyd (Lawrence Robb) in his grip, Aaron urged him to come clean.Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley), however, turned up at this very moment, leading John to grab Aaron and throw the both of them from the edge of the gorge, pinning the blame for the crime on his love rival brother.

Robert, who was subsequently arrested and jailed, has professed his innocence over and over, with Victoria (Isabel Hodgins) and Chas refusing to believe his version of events. John’s recovery in hospital didn’t help matters as he continued to lie about Robert’s role in the incident, claiming his sibling tried to kill him and Aaron.

Aaron, meanwhile, was in a coma – and he was the only one who could back up Rob’s version of event. Robert urged Vic to keep John away from his former flame, knowing that he would likely kill him to keep his secrets buried.

Victoria was left with food for thought and soon her spidey senses started tingling as she noticed that John wasn’t particularly consumed with joy upon learning that Aaron will be woken up.

Victoria started to piece together the truth after a chat with Robert

Much like Robert suspected, on the morning that doctors planned to wake Aaron from his coma, John entered his husband’s hospital room and tried to kill him.

As Aaron flatlined, John was met by an unsuspecting Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley), who he asked for a lift.

Chas and Liam Cavanagh (Jonny McPherson), meanwhile, were devastated to discover that Aaron’s life was on the line but thankfully doctors managed to save him.

Aaron woke up, much to Chas’ delight, but the mood soon changed when he mentioned Mackenzie’s name, revealing that John has his mate held captive!

Chas informed Victoria of the update and she was horrified to realise that Robert was right this whole time. With her disturbed sibling having vanished, Vic exited the hospital in the hopes of tracking him down.

Little did she know, however, that Cain was driving him away from the scene!

The question is: will John be caught before it’s too late? What’s more, now the race is truly on to locate missing Mack. Will he be okay?

That remains to be seen but upcoming scenes will see him inject himself with the syringe left by John – and he hallucinates Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins).

Charity, meanwhile, is notified of what’s gone on and thus begins her quest to find Mack. But will it be too little too late?