CORRIE BLIMEY Coronation Street viewers ‘work out’ who killed Les Battersby – as fans mourn iconic character’s off-screen death

But as Les’s family gathered to hear a hilarious, yet moving, will reading at Adam Barlow’s office, fans were already connecting the death to recent events on the cobbles.

Les’s death had already raised suspicions when his family were offered £50,000 by his former employer if the family accepted the death as an accident and signed an NDA.

Whilst there were raised eyebrows amongst the Battersby clan it was Les’s Stepson Chesney who most vocally challenged the news.

With the abattoir unwilling to give the family any more information about exactly how Les died, the family were more suspicious than excited at the prospect of a payout.

Chesney was convinced that if the abattoir was offering that kind of money out of hand then there must be something far more dodgy afoot.

Even his mother-in-law, Bernie, could see past the money to the mystery behind it.

For Chesney his week went from bad to worse as it seems the attentions he attracted of a strange stalker in a van has followed him back to Coronation Street after an earlier carpark altercation.

As the suspicious van’s activity intensified and Chesney spotted it sitting outside his home at number five, fans took to socials to draw a connection between the recent big events in Chesney’s life.

One viewer posed the question: “”So is the mystery man in the van who has been hassling Chesney connected to Les being killed at work?”

Other fans agreed saying: “Maybe ‘Van Man’ Killed Les.” And “”Right so now that van could be some butcher b******s trying to intimidate Les’ nearest and dearest.”

Some even thought the mystery van driver could be Chesney’s own mum: “All this mention of Cilla makes me think she’s either the van man or she has something to do with Les’s dodgy will.”

It seems that fans are convinced that whoever is behind the wheel of the mysterious van they think they had a hand in Les’s death.