"There Was a Girl Called Kylie" | David's Story [Coronation Street]

"Are you sitting comfortably? I'll tell you the whole story. Then I'll begin.

Once upon a time, there was a girl called Kylie. She was married to David, and they had two beautiful children. And then one day, they decided to go to the land of sea and sunshine and pretty coloured fishes and live happily ever after. Kylie was very happy.

But then, a nasty young man named Clayton came along. And just for the hell of it, just because he could, he stuck a knife between her ribs. And he left her there to slowly bleed to death.

So David and the children were left all alone, and they were all really sad.

But David was angry. And the anger inside him grew and grew, to the point where he thought prison wasn't good enough for the nasty young man. So do you know what David did?

David went out and got a car and bought lots of petrol. And on the day when the nasty young man was to appear in court, David drove to court and he waited. And while he waited, David doused himself and the car in petrol. When he saw the prison van approaching with the nasty young man inside he put his foot down, hard, flicked open his lighter, drove into the side of the van ... and boom.

The nasty young man was gone forever. Of course, so was David. But he didn't mind. In some ways, it was sort of a relief.

You see this isn't a fairy-tale Gail. There are no happy endings."