Steve McDonald has spent a bit more time on screen of late, after he discovered the horrifying truth behind his daughter Amy Barlow's sudden decision to move back home. The teen, played by Elle Mulvaney in the ITV soap, left the flat she shared with friend Aaron Sandford after she accused him of rape.
Weeks after the ordeal, at 1 Coronation Street, Amy told Tracy that she was raped. Tracy gently asked her what had happened and Amy told her heartbreakingly: "He was someone I knew, someone I trusted. I never expected to be raped in my own bed by a mate." Tracy agreed to tell Amy's dad Steve for her and when he reacted angrily, saying he wanted to go after Aaron, she told him: "She's right - we need to go to the police and let them deal with it."
But it was later Tracy who acted angrily when she felt her daughter's report to the police wasn't taken seriously enough, after Aaron was released due to there not being enough evidence to charge him. The sensitive scenes came after Simon Gregson, who plays Steve, appeared to spend some time off-screen.
