Corrie ‘ killer’ Brian’s fear of public abuse

FORMER Coronation Street star Brian Capron tries to avoid social media because he fears public abuse.

Brian, 71, famously played Corrie’s most famous serial killer, Richard Hillman ( above).

Despite it being years since he terrified the cobbles, Brian still fears Corrie fans that remember his character’s actions on the soap.

He said: “With social media, everyone’s in the spotlight. You have to worry about how you appear all the time and everybody’s criticising you. I find it very difficult, the social media thing.

“I don’t do anything. I don’t do Twitter and I don’t do Facebook. I didn’t want to see anybody saying how awful I was.”

Brian’s 2003 exit from the soap, which saw him drive into a canal never to be seen again, was watched by almost 20million viewers at the time. WOODY Allen writes his film scripts on a typewriter he bought in the 1950s.