Coronation Street lets slip identity of Kit’s mystery caller – and it’s not Joel’s killer

Coronation Street has revealed the mystery caller who contacted Kit Green on the night Joel Deering was murdered.

Spoilers have appeared to let slip which character was behind the phone call from a withheld number, with it popping up in Kit’s call log. In a flashback to the night it happened, Kit was seen deleting the call entry while we had no idea who it was.

Now new spoilers have seemingly given away the identity of the caller, leading to a murder confession. But it seems the call hasn’t actually been made by Joel’s real killer if clues are anything to go by.

There were all kinds of theories about what the call was and who it was by, and what it meant. Some viewers wondered if it was Kit contacting himself to test out a burner phone, as others speculated it was Joel’s killer calling Kit and maybe he was involved.

But now it seems Dee-Dee Bailey will admit to being the caller. It would seem Kit didn’t actually know who it was given Dee-Dee explains it was her next week, so why did he delete it given it was possible evidence?

Dee-Dee makes a killer confession this week, admitting she attacked Joel the night he died. Believing she’s the killer, she vows to confess to the crime.

Next week she heads to the station, and tells detective Kit that the anonymous phone call he received was from her. She claimed that she made the call after she hit Joel with a crowbar.

Dee-Dee is adamant that Joel was still alive when she left him though, but worries her attack caused his fatal injuries. But given police officers confirmed Joel suffered two blows to the head, does this mean someone else attacked him too?

If yes, might they be Joel’s real killer if they saw him after Dee-Dee? After all, when Kit crossed paths with the villain on the night he died, as shown in a flashback clip, Joel was already covered in blood.

Perhaps someone did meet with Joel after his run-in with ex Dee-Dee, and maybe they are the killer. Either way, we now know that Kit’s mystery caller was Dee-Dee, no doubt about to admit what she had done. But why would she have called Kit, and not the police station?

What was Dee-Dee going to reveal, and was Joel really alive when she left him? All will be revealed in special episodes next week!