Tracy Barlow to leave Coronation Street for good?

An article on the STV website reports that Kate Ford will leave Coronation Street for good when her six month contract is up. I suspected that this might have been the case when Phil Collinson said in an interview "She's back for a good while" which seemed to hint that she was only returning for a certain amount of time.

I guess that things won't go too well at the retrial then? Corrie murderers always face punishment for their crimes and I guess Tracy is no different.